Childhood Adversity and Internalizing Problems: Evidence of a Race Mental Health Paradox

IF 3 1区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY
Ashleigh Kysar-Moon
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Abstract

Health disparities scholars describe the existence of a race mental health paradox—specifically, when black adults face higher levels of adversity compared with whites yet have similar or better mental health outcomes. Whether such a paradox exists among youth is unclear. Using data from the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect, I examine black–white differences in children’s internalizing problems scores and consider the role of childhood adversities. Black children experience more adversity within family and neighborhood domains and cumulatively across ecological levels yet have comparable or better mental health at age 4 that endures over the early life course compared with white children (p < .05). Evidence suggests that among children with the greatest adversity (at the parent level), having three supportive adults and high degrees of support at age 6 were more effective for black youth than their white peers in diminishing risk for internalizing problems later in childhood (p < .05).
童年逆境与内化问题:种族心理健康悖论的证据
健康差异学者们描述了种族心理健康悖论的存在——具体来说,当黑人成年人面临比白人更高水平的逆境时,他们的心理健康结果相似或更好。年轻人中是否存在这样的矛盾还不清楚。利用儿童虐待和忽视纵向研究的数据,我研究了黑人和白人在儿童内化问题得分上的差异,并考虑了童年逆境的作用。与白人儿童相比,黑人儿童在家庭和社区领域以及在生态水平上经历了更多的逆境,但在4岁时具有相当或更好的心理健康,并且在早期生命过程中持续(p < 0.05)。有证据表明,在逆境最大的儿童中(在父母层面),在6岁时有三个支持的成年人和高度的支持对黑人青少年比白人同龄人更有效地降低了童年后期内化问题的风险(p < 0.05)。
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期刊介绍: Official journal of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Mental Health. Society and Mental Health (SMH) publishes original and innovative peer-reviewed research and theory articles that link social structure and sociocultural processes with mental health and illness in society. It will also provide an outlet for sociologically relevant research and theory articles that are produced in other disciplines and subfields concerned with issues related to mental health and illness. The aim of the journal is to advance knowledge in the sociology of mental health and illness by publishing the leading work that highlights the unique perspectives and contributions that sociological research and theory can make to our understanding of mental health and illness in society.
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