Discrimination, Self-Esteem, and Mental Health Across Ethnic Groups of Second-Generation Immigrant Adolescents

Espinosa, Adriana

doi:10.1007/s40615-020-00917-1

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“…These findings are complemented by prior research and theory showing the importance of individual, family, and community level resiliency factors in preventing poor mental health outcomes within a socioecological model. Our results are consistent with established literature demonstrating that higher self-esteem, an individual level resiliency factor, is associated with better mental health [45][46][47]. It is important to note that prior literature has indicated that despite reporting the highest levels of personal and parental education, Asian American adolescents commonly report the lowest self-esteem scores compared to all other racial/ethnic subgroups [48].…”

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confidence: 90%

“…It is important to note that prior literature has indicated that despite reporting the highest levels of personal and parental education, Asian American adolescents commonly report the lowest self-esteem scores compared to all other racial/ethnic subgroups [48]. Moreover, it has been previously demonstrated that self-esteem mediates the relationship between discrimination and depression, specifically in Asian American second generation immigrants [46]. One study looking at Chinese-American young adults shows that strong cultural identity, through multilingualism and pride in heritage, is positively associated with higher self-esteem [49].…”

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confidence: 94%

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Investigating Asian American Adolescents’ Resiliency Factors and Young Adult Mental Health Outcomes at 14-year Follow-up: A Nationally Representative Prospective Cohort Study

Iyer

Parmar

Ganson

et al. 2022

J Immigrant Minority Health

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There is scant research on how Asian American adolescents’ resiliency relates to mental well-being in adulthood. The objective of this study was to determine the prospective associations between resiliency factors (individual, family, and school community) in adolescence and mental health outcomes in adulthood, among a national sample of Asian Americans. We analyzed data from 1020 Asian American adolescents who were followed for 14 years in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Of the resiliency factors, individual self-esteem (Adjusted Odds Ratio [AOR] 0.54, 95% Confidence Interval [CI] 0.37–0.79) and family connectedness (AOR 0.78, 95% CI 0.65–0.93) in adolescence were found to be protective against adult mental health outcomes in logistic regression models adjusting for sociodemographic factors and baseline mental health. Our study identified individual and family resiliency factors which can be leveraged to help Asian American adolescents and families in cultivating better mental health.

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confidence: 94%

Investigating Asian American Adolescents’ Resiliency Factors and Young Adult Mental Health Outcomes at 14-year Follow-up: A Nationally Representative Prospective Cohort Study

Iyer

Parmar

Ganson

et al. 2022

J Immigrant Minority Health

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“…The perception of being a target of discrimination (isolation and unfair treatment) has been adversely related to both physical and mental health. This pattern has been consistently reported for various types of discrimination and for multiple populations [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ].…”

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Discrimination and Health: The Mediating Effect of Acculturative Stress

Urzúa

Caqueo-Urízar

Henríquez

et al. 2021

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There is not much evidence on the effects of south–south migration and its consequences on physical and mental health. Our objective was to examine the mediating role of Acculturative Stress in the association between ethnic discrimination and racial discrimination with physical and mental health. This research is a non-experimental, analytical, cross-sectional study. A total of 976 adult Colombian migrants living in Chile were interviewed. We used the Everyday Discrimination Scale, the acculturative stress scale, and the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form (SF-12) for health status; we found that racial and ethnic discrimination had a negative effect on physical and mental health. In the simultaneous presence of both types of discrimination, racial discrimination was completely absorbed by ethnic discrimination, the latter becoming a total mediator of the effect of racial discrimination on mental and physical health. Our findings are consistent with the literature, which suggests that there are various types of discrimination which, individually or in their intersectionality, can have negative effects on health.

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“…Therefore, the priority time point for intervention in depression in adolescence should be in the elementary school stage. Up to now, studies to identify factors related to the prevention of depression and interventions to reduce depression have focused mainly on middle school and above in the MA population (Espinosa, 2020;Umaña-Taylor et al, 2018). However, depressive mood increases rapidly as adolescence begins and then tends to persist (Song et al, 2020).…”

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Reciprocal relationship between multicultural adolescents’ depression and life satisfaction: a random intercept cross-lagged panel model for 3-wave panel data

Lee

Kim

et al. 2022

Applied Research Quality Life

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Multicultural adolescents (MA) in Korea experience higher depression and lower life satisfaction compared to Korean native adolescents. To consider appropriate interventions, this study investigates the cross-lagged effect between life satisfaction and depression among these adolescents. Secondary data from the Multicultural Adolescents Panel Survey, which is a nationally representative sample, was analyzed. Data from the 3rd (T1, elementary school), 5th (T2, middle school), and 7th (T3, high school) waves (2013–2017) were used. Altogether, 1,239 MA were included in the sample for analysis; the mean age at T1 was 11.97 (± 0.36) years. The ten-item Depression Scale Questionnaire was used to measure depression, and the three-item Happiness Scale was used to measure life satisfaction. The random intercept cross-lagged panel model was conducted to estimate within-person autoregressive and cross-lagged effects. Life satisfaction and depression had a reciprocal relationship from T1 to T2, while only life satisfaction had a lagged effect from T2 to T3. Life satisfaction’s lagged effect dominated that of depression. The cross-lagged effect size of depression from T1 to T2 was larger than that from T2 to T3, and that of life satisfaction from T2 to T3 was larger than that from T1 to T2. Low life satisfaction in MA continues over time. Depression is not persistent, but if experienced in elementary school, it leads to low life satisfaction in middle school and depression in high school. The findings suggest that early intervention for depression in elementary school can reduce its negative effect MA’s life satisfaction.

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Discrimination, Self-Esteem, and Mental Health Across Ethnic Groups of Second-Generation Immigrant Adolescents

Cited by 22 publications

References 67 publications

Investigating Asian American Adolescents’ Resiliency Factors and Young Adult Mental Health Outcomes at 14-year Follow-up: A Nationally Representative Prospective Cohort Study

Investigating Asian American Adolescents’ Resiliency Factors and Young Adult Mental Health Outcomes at 14-year Follow-up: A Nationally Representative Prospective Cohort Study

Discrimination and Health: The Mediating Effect of Acculturative Stress

Reciprocal relationship between multicultural adolescents’ depression and life satisfaction: a random intercept cross-lagged panel model for 3-wave panel data

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