Influence of Perceived Racial Discrimination on Health and Behaviour of Immigrant Children in British Columbia

A. George, C. Bassani, R. Armstrong
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This study examines the influence of perceived discrimination on the health and behaviour of ethnic minority immigrant children in British Columbia, Canada. Using data from the New Canadian Children and Youth Study, we examine perceived discrimination experienced by the parent, family, and cultural group in Canada to test the influence of micro-, meso-, and macrolevels of discrimination on children. Families from 6 ethnic backgrounds participated in the study. Parents’ perceptions of the child’s health and six behavioral scales (hyperactivity, prosocial behaviour, emotional problems, aggression, indirect aggression, and a general combined behaviour scale) were examined as outcome variables. After controlling for ethnicity and background variables, our findings suggest that perceived micro- and macrodiscrimination has the greatest influence on the health and behaviour of our immigrant child sample. Variation among ethnic groups provided the largest explanation of health and behavioural discrepancies in our study.
感知种族歧视对不列颠哥伦比亚省移民儿童健康和行为的影响
本研究考察了感知歧视对加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省少数民族移民儿童健康和行为的影响。使用来自新加拿大儿童和青年研究的数据,我们研究了加拿大父母、家庭和文化群体所经历的感知歧视,以测试微观、中观和宏观层面的歧视对儿童的影响。来自6个种族背景的家庭参与了这项研究。父母对孩子健康的看法和六种行为量表(多动、亲社会行为、情绪问题、攻击、间接攻击和一般综合行为量表)作为结果变量进行了检查。在控制种族和背景变量后,我们的研究结果表明,感知到的微观和宏观歧视对我们的移民儿童样本的健康和行为影响最大。在我们的研究中,种族之间的差异提供了健康和行为差异的最大解释。
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