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Community Mental Health Journal
Published in: Community Mental Health Journal 1/2017

01-01-2017 | Original Paper

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Emotional Health: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants’ Adolescent Children

Authors: Celia C. Lo, Laura M. Hopson, Gaynell M. Simpson, Tyrone C. Cheng

Published in: Community Mental Health Journal | Issue 1/2017

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Abstract

First, discrimination was conceptualized as a major source of stress for immigrants’ adolescent children. Next, such children’s emotional health (indicated by measures of self-esteem and depression) was examined for possible associations with discrimination, psychosocial supports, and social structure; additionally, race/ethnicity’s possible moderating role in such associations was evaluated. Data from the first 2 waves of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (1991–2006) were employed, focusing on 3 groups: Asians, Hispanics, and Whites. Linear regression analyses were used to weigh how discrimination, psychosocial supports, and social structure measured at Wave 1 and Wave 2 related to self-esteem and depression measured at Wave 2. Asians exhibited the highest level of depression and were most likely to perceive discrimination; Asians’ self-esteem was also low, compared to other groups’. Discrimination and psychosocial supports appeared to operate differentially in explaining the 3 groups’ emotional health.
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Metadata
Title
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Emotional Health: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants’ Adolescent Children
Authors
Celia C. Lo
Laura M. Hopson
Gaynell M. Simpson
Tyrone C. Cheng
Publication date
01-01-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Community Mental Health Journal / Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 0010-3853
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2789
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-016-0049-8

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