{"title":"Did Social Capital Protect Mental Health from Social Mixing Restrictions and Spatial Immobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Longitudinal Analysis of Individual- and Contextual-Level Local Social Capital.","authors":"James Laurence","doi":"10.1177/00221465251368341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251368341","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates whether local social capital (neighbor networks and norms of trust/reciprocity) buffered the impact of mixing/mobility restrictions on psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on two nationally representative panel surveys: the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) Mainstage survey (n = 31,805 person-observations) and UKHLS COVID-19 survey (n = 22,933 person-observations), a subsample of the Mainstage survey respondents followed during the pandemic. Individual-level and (prepandemic/peripandemic) contextual-level local social capital indicators are tested. Longitudinal fixed-effects analyses indicate that distress increased with the onset of mixing restrictions, and peripandemic psychological distress increased more in areas experiencing greater spatial immobility (measured using Google spatial mobility data). However, increases in distress were significantly smaller among individuals reporting both higher individual and contextual social capital. Differences in social contact or neighborhood social support did not explain social capital's buffering role. Results suggest social capital be considered a key element of crisis preparedness.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465251368341"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145234077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whose American Dream? Examining the John Henryism Hypothesis for Psychological Distress among African American and Caribbean Black Women.","authors":"Millicent N Robinson, Courtney S Thomas Tobin","doi":"10.1177/00221465251362467","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465251362467","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The John Henryism hypothesis (JHH) suggests high John Henryism may adversely affect the health of individuals with low socioeconomic status (SES). Although prevalent among Black Americans, its impact on Black women's mental health across ethnic subgroups remains understudied. Using National Survey of American Life data (2001-2003), a factor analysis and negative binomial regression examined John Henryism patterns and psychological distress among 1,209 African American and 371 Caribbean Black women. Distinct factor structures indicated the need for group-specific versions of John Henryism variables to capture its role within each population. The analysis found no direct link between John Henryism and distress for either group. However, after accounting for sociodemographic factors and stressors, high John Henryism was associated with lower distress among Caribbean Black women. Evidence supporting the JHH was found only among Caribbean Black women, where John Henryism was protective for those with low and moderate SES but unrelated to distress for high-SES individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465251362467"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145201917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotional Rollercoaster: How Immigration Policy and Agency Shape Mental Health among Undocumented College Students.","authors":"Martha Morales Hernandez","doi":"10.1177/00221465251362476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251362476","url":null,"abstract":"Exclusionary immigration laws and policies have been shown to produce adverse mental health outcomes. However, less work has traced the processes through which mental health experiences arise and how undocumented college students employ their agency to protect their mental health. Drawing on 66 in-depth interviews, I build on my interviewees' descriptions of mental health as a rollercoaster to illustrate how their stress process is shaped by immigration laws and students' agency. I find that ever-changing and unpredictable immigration laws and policies promote feelings of emotional distress. However, students utilize their agency to uplift themselves and support their psychological well-being. Yet despite their actions, emotional distress and psychological well-being coexist in students' everyday lives. Ultimately, I argue that students' agency supports their psychological well-being, but the immigration law and policy context they are embedded in limits their efforts and instead places them in a perilous emotional rollercoaster.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"61 1","pages":"221465251362476"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145134631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexis C Dennis,Reed DeAngelis,Taylor W Hargrove,Jay A Pearson
{"title":"Colorism and Health Inequities among Black Americans: A Biopsychosocial Perspective.","authors":"Alexis C Dennis,Reed DeAngelis,Taylor W Hargrove,Jay A Pearson","doi":"10.1177/00221465251364373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251364373","url":null,"abstract":"The mechanisms generating skin-tone-based health inequities among ethnic Black Americans remain poorly understood. To address this gap, our study advances a novel biopsychosocial model of embodied colorism-related distress. We test this model with survey and biomarker data from a community sample of working-age Black adults from Nashville, Tennessee (2011-2014; N = 627). Relying on self-rated, interviewer-rated, and discordant skin tone measures, our analyses reveal that Black adults who perceive themselves as dark-skinned tend to have a lower sense of mattering and shorter telomeres, a biomarker of accelerated cellular degradation and aging, relative to their peers who perceive their skin to be lighter. These patterns hold across various social contexts and regardless of interviewer-rated skin tone, indicating that subjective skin tone may be a particularly robust gauge of colorism-related stress processes. Our study reveals critical and previously unexplored biopsychosocial mechanisms linking colorism to health inequity.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"39 1","pages":"221465251364373"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145103527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotional Fortification: Pediatricians as a Core Resource for Managing Parental Stress and Anxiety.","authors":"Amanda M Gengler","doi":"10.1177/00221465251364374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251364374","url":null,"abstract":"\"Consult your child's pediatrician for guidance\"-this is a refrain parents hear repeatedly. Drawing on 43 interviews with 11 pediatricians and 32 parents of minor children, I find that many parents turn to pediatric providers to help them resolve a wide range of everyday anxieties related to childrearing. Many pediatricians, in turn, view providing substantial emotional support to parents as a central component of their jobs. I conceptualize this dynamic as a process of \"emotional fortification.\" In working to emotionally fortify parents, pediatricians strive to foster a sense of calm and boost parental confidence. Through these interactions, parents can accumulate valuable emotional resources, including reduced stress and increased feelings of efficacy. Not all parents are equally positioned to reap these advantages, however. Here, I examine how emotional fortification, an undertheorized outcome of emotional labor, is sought and provided during pediatric health care encounters while considering how inequalities shape this process.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"37 1","pages":"221465251364374"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145078341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multigenerational Coresidence and Psychological Distress during Adolescence and Young Adulthood: An Exploration among White, Black, and Hispanic Individuals.","authors":"Zhe Meredith Zhang,Qi Li,Cynthia Colen,Rin Reczek","doi":"10.1177/00221465251362474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251362474","url":null,"abstract":"Childhood family structures are crucial for long-term health and well-being. However, the effects of an increasingly common family structure-multigenerational households comprising a child, parent(s), and grandparent(s)-remained underexplored. Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and its young adult sample (N = 8,230), we examine trajectories of psychological distress among White, Black, and Hispanic adolescents and young adults across three dimensions of early life multigenerational coresidence: presence, duration, and onset. We find that Hispanic children who lived in multigenerational households, especially those beginning coresidence before age 1, reported steeper declines in distress and improved mental health over time. By contrast, multigenerational coresidence was consistently associated with higher distress levels among White adolescents and young adults. We do not find evidence of an association between multigenerational coresidence and Black children's mental health trajectories. These findings highlight potential racial patterns and add to our understanding of racial disparities in health.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"37 1","pages":"221465251362474"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145068331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory.","authors":"Alina Schmitz, Patrick Lazarevič, Marc Luy","doi":"10.1177/00221465241291847","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241291847","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We propose a novel approach to test the fundamental cause theory (FCT) by analyzing the association between socioeconomic status (SES), as measured by the order titles \"brothers\" and \"padres,\" and mortality in 2,421 German Catholic monks born between 1840 and 1959. This quasi-experiment allows us to study the effect of SES on mortality in a population with largely standardized living conditions. Mortality analyses based on Kaplan-Meier product limit estimation show that there were no statistically significant survival differences between the high and lower SES monks. This holds for all birth cohorts, indicating that monastic life offers health protection for monks with a lower SES regardless the disease patterns, causes of death, or main risk factors in a given period. These findings support the FCT: Whereas SES-related differences in mortality are a widely confirmed finding in the general population, a context with largely standardized conditions eliminates the importance of SES-related resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"379-392"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12394762/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142632360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Karas Montez, Shannon M Monnat, Emily E Wiemers, Douglas A Wolf, Xue Zhang
{"title":"Policy Brief.","authors":"Jennifer Karas Montez, Shannon M Monnat, Emily E Wiemers, Douglas A Wolf, Xue Zhang","doi":"10.1177/00221465251362996","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465251362996","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"277"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144862679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to \"No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory\".","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00221465241306670","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241306670","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"428"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142787577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Grzegorz Bulczak, Alexi Gugushvili, Jonathan Koltai
{"title":"The Heterogeneous Effects of College Education on Outcomes Related to Deaths of Despair.","authors":"Grzegorz Bulczak, Alexi Gugushvili, Jonathan Koltai","doi":"10.1177/00221465241291845","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241291845","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>College education features prominently in research on determinants of deaths from substance use disorders and self-harm-outcomes collectively referred to as \"deaths of despair\" (DoD). Limited attention has been given to whether the protective effects of college education on indicators of despair vary by individuals' likelihood of college completion. We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health for 6,145 individuals to test whether the protective effects of college completion on precursors to DoD vary according to individuals' propensity to attain a college degree. Understanding whether the benefits of college education differ depending on the propensity to complete it is important for designing effective educational policies. Using the heterogeneous treatment effects approach, we find that individuals with a relatively low propensity for graduating from college but who complete it have a lower likelihood of depressive symptoms, binge drinking, prescription drug abuse, and hard drug use.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"357-378"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12394775/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142632361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}