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Factors mitigate the effect of widowhood's mental health impact: A longitudinal test from individual, familial, and social perspectives
This study investigates the longitudinal relationship between widowhood and depression and examines the interaction effects of health asymmetry, the number of children, and urban-rural differences from individual, familial, and social perspectives. A sample of 9,563 individuals for the four rounds period (from 2011 to 2018) is obtained from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Results demonstrate that (a) the depression associated with widowhood is expected to revert to prewidowhood level after 3 years, (b) the relationship between widowhood and depression is stronger for older adults who are health pessimis...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dandan Li Chaoxin Jiang Source Type: research

Necessary, burdensome, or threatening? Awareness of Black-White disparities in health care access and self-rated health for Black and White Americans
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1037/ort0000740. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAwareness of racial health care inequities is one prerequisite to eliminating them. Although extant research has described awareness of racial health care inequities in the United States, the health impacts of such awareness on communities that are most impacted by these inequities remains unknown. Therefore, we examined associations between awareness of Black-White racial health care inequities and self-rated health for Black and White adults in the United States. We used survey data from non-Hispanic Black and White participants (N ...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Vanessa V Volpe Courtney S Thomas Tobin Donte L Bernard Perusi B Muhigaba Julia M Ross Source Type: research

Kids are all in the same storm but not in the same boat
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1037/ort0000742. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present article reviews the scholarship and policy landscape about the state of child and youth well-being, as well as the scope of health/mental health and education inequities and the factors driving them. The research and policy literature are reviewed to provide exemplars of innovation in science, practice, prevention, policy, and public education that can advance progress and support optimism. Several guiding principles emerge that provide a foundation for improving well-being and equity for the next generation. (PsycInfo Dat...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Mary Ann McCabe Source Type: research

Strengths and challenges among Black and Latinx people living with HIV during COVID-19: A mixed-methods investigation of the translation of self-management across syndemic health crises
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1037/ort0000732. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBlack and Latinx people are disproportionately impacted by HIV, COVID-19, and other syndemic health crises with similar underlying social determinants of health. Lessons learned from the HIV pandemic and COVID-19 response have been invoked to improve health equity at the systemic level in the face of other emergent health crises. However, few have examined the potential translation of strategies between syndemics at the individual level. The current mixed-methods study examined strategies used to manage HIV during the COVID-19 pandemi...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Devin E Banks Kate Ramm Isabella Viducich Quonta Beasley Juan Barron Elizabeth Lee Chen Enricka Norwood-Scott Kimberly Fuentes Muyu Zhang Arleen F Brown Gail E Wyatt Alison Hamilton Tamra B Loeb Source Type: research

Transgender older adults' prior military service: Mental health differences by gender identification
We examined the distal relationship between prior military service, identity stigma, and mental health among transgender older adults, drawing comparisons between transgender men and women. We conducted a series of weighted multivariate linear models to predict the relationships between prior military service, identity stigma, perceived stress, and depression among 183 transgender women and men aged 51-87 (M = 60.11, SD = 0.668) using 2014 data from the National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study. Prior military service was negatively associated with depression and perceived stress; identity stigma was positively as...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Charles P Hoy-Ellis Hyun-Jun Kim Austin G Oswald Christi Nelson Karen I Fredriksen-Goldsen Source Type: research

Ethnic inequality between Arabs and Jews in Israel in global life satisfaction: A social determinants examination among young adults
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1037/ort0000739. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTGlobal life satisfaction (GLS), a core construct of subjective well-being, plays a vital role in positive development among young adults. Persistent inequality in subjective well-being across minority versus majority groups is a growing public health concern. However, research evidence on the minority-majority disparity in GLS among representative samples of young adults is scarce. Based on national data from Israel (N = 2,405), this study examines (a) the association of multiple forms of economic (not in education, employment, or tra...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Netta Achdut Source Type: research

Well-being and contexts of development of U.S. citizen children in Mexico following parental deportation or voluntary relocation
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1037/ort0000734. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhen undocumented immigrant parents are deported from the United States, they must decide whether or not to take their U.S.-born and undocumented immigrant children with them, often to countries the children have never visited or know little about. Other parents do not wait to be deported by the government and decide to relocate to their home countries with or without their children. Both sets of families experience relocation but under different circumstances. These differences deserve exploration to understand the psychological and ...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Luis H Zayas Alejandra Garcia Isaza Jaime Fuentes-Balderrama Mar ía Elena Rivera-Heredia Source Type: research

Cultural stress, personal identity development, and mental health among U.S. Hispanic college students
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1037/ort0000735. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present study examines the extent to which culturally stressful experiences may predict impaired well-being, increased internalizing symptoms (depression and anxiety), and increased externalizing problems (social aggression, physical aggression, and rule breaking) among a sample of Hispanic college students in Miami across a 12-day period. The predictive effects of cultural stressors on these outcomes were examined both (a) directly and (b) indirectly through daily fluctuations in students' personal identity synthesis and confusio...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Seth J Schwartz Cory L Cobb Alan Meca Tara Bautista Sumeyra Sahbaz Aigerim Alpysbekova Lawrence G Watkins Lea Nehme Byron L Zamboanga Pablo Montero-Zamora Maria Duque Duyen H Vo Yara Acaf Jos é Szapocznik Source Type: research

"Help me to decide": A study of human rights-based supported decision making with persons with intellectual disabilities
This study used a human rights perspective with participatory, qualitative research methods to investigate environmental conditions and social support measures that enabled persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) to make and implement their own decisions. Data gathered were 6 months of field notes about implementing SDM in a L'Arche day activity program with 26 adults with ID, with opinions and drawings illustrating persons' decision making. All data were analyzed thematically. As a result of using the SDM intervention, persons with ID became more expressive, able to discuss and debate options, participated in organiza...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ugn ė Gudelytė Jonas Ru škus Katherine Tyson McCrea Source Type: research

Self-understanding, envisioning the future, and prevention: An appreciation and a reflection on the occasion of the 100th anniversary
This article is a personal reflection on one practitioner's evolution of thought on resilience and preventive intervention, starting with interviewing civil rights workers, to conceptualizing self-understanding as an essential component of resilience, to the development of a family-based preventive intervention for parental depression, which was disseminated, adapted, and incorporated into a growing body of prevention research. Consensus statements on mental health prevention from the National Academies are reviewed, and the importance of a social justice perspective is highlighted throughout. The article concludes with pr...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: William R Beardslee Source Type: research