Title
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Emotional Health: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants’ Adolescent Children
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2017
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.
DOI
10.1007/s10597-016-0049-8
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Lo, Celia C.; Hopson, Laura M.; Simpson, Gaynell M.; and Cheng, Tyrone, "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Emotional Health: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants’ Adolescent Children" (2017). Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 105.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/social-work-and-child-advocacy-facpubs/105