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Cumulative Exposure to Social Isolation and Longitudinal Changes in Life Satisfaction among Older Adults Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Jinho Kim, Gum-Ryeong Park
This study examines the longitudinal association between cumulative exposure to social isolation and life satisfaction and whether this association differs by gender. Using seven waves of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging from 2006 to 2018 (3,543 adults aged 65 or older), fixed effects models were estimated. Cumulative social isolation was longitudinally associated with a decline in life satisfaction
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The Work/Care Interface and Parents’ Mid-pandemic Mental Health: Inequalities at the Intersection of Gender and High-risk Household Status Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Sylvia Fuller, Manlin Cai, Donna Lero
The COVID-19 pandemic generated mental health stressors for parents as they faced new health risks and navigated disruptions to employment, schooling, and care arrangements. Drawing on 2021 survey data from Canadian parents of children 10 years old and younger, we describe the relationship between work/care pandemic stressors and mental health, and employ Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to examine
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The Mental Health of Essential Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of U.S. State-level Policies Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Rachel Donnelly, Adam K. Schoenbachler
Emerging research documents concerning mental health outcomes among essential workers at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, mental health outcomes may have varied across states in the United States, as state-level policies differed. Questions also remain about the mental health of workers during the second year of the pandemic. Using nationally representative data from the U.S. Household
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Acculturation, Depressive Symptoms, and Friendship Instability among Immigrant Adolescents Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Yezhen Li, Alyssa W. Goldman
Recent scholarship suggests that personal tie instability, that is, the dissolution of old ties and the formation of new ties, may lead to psychological distress. However, this association remains understudied among the immigrant population, for whom acculturation may present unique challenges to both personal tie stability and psychological well-being. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study
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Impostorization in Academia, Psychological Distress, and Class Reproduction Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Jo Phelan
Might “impostor syndrome” be more than the private trouble it is often described to be? Instead, might it be deeply rooted in sociological processes? I explore this possibility drawing on my personal experience and Pearlin’s insistence that much that distresses us in our personal lives originates in social structures. I use Bourdieu’s theory to conceptualize the processes that may instill the “syndrome
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Social Change in the Turbulent Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impacts of Work-related Demands on Work-to-family Conflict, Mastery, and Psychological Distress Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Shirin Montazer, Laura Pineault, Krista M. Brumley, Katheryn Maguire, Boris Baltes
This study examines whether (and why) the accumulation of perceived work-related demands associated with social change in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic relates to psychological distress among a sample of employed adults in dual-earning relationships living in the United States. Using data from a cross-sectional online survey ( N = 418) administered during the early months of the pandemic, multivariate
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A Relational Approach to Understanding Psychosocial Wellbeing, Including Suicidal Ideation, among MENA-background Adolescents Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Sarah R. Meyer, Alli Gillespie, Ilana Seff, Cyril Bennouna, Najat Qushua, Iulia Tothezan, Baffour Boaten Boahen-Boaten, Carine Allaf, Lindsay Stark
Adolescent refugees from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region face significant acculturation challenges and stressors in the United States. This qualitative study draws upon the integrated motivational-volitional model to understand MENA-background adolescents’ psychosocial wellbeing and suicide risk in three U.S. cities. Local service providers served as key informants ( n = 27), sharing
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Work Stressors and the Buffering Functions of the Sense of Control in the United States and Japan: A Test of the Diminished Buffering Hypothesis Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Atsushi Narisada
In the Stress Process Model, the sense of control is situated as a central psychosocial resource that buffers the effect of stressors on psychological distress. Although studies support this propos...
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Debt, Credit Payment Holidays, and their Relationship with Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Matthew Sparkes, Senhu Wang, Jacques Wels
Although the relationship between debt and mental health is well documented, little is known about how changes in debt status and the specific policies implemented to assist borrowers during the CO...
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Managing a Household during a Pandemic: Cognitive Labor and Parents’ Psychological Well-being Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Richard J. Petts, Daniel L. Carlson
Rising domestic burdens for mothers fueled concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated gender inequalities in well-being. Yet, survey research has not considered whether and how cognitive labor...
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Working Only for the Weekend? How Workplace Social Connections Impact Workers’ Sense of Mattering and Mental Health Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Rebecca Bonhag, Laura Upenieks
The growing field of mattering has established that a sense that we matter is crucial to well-being and that it is informed by interactions with close others. However, few studies investigate how m...
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“We’re Not Gonna Talk about This, It Didn’t Happen. You’re Confused”: Adverse Communication in Family Responses to Mental Health, Childhood Sexual Assault, and LGBTQ Identities Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Armin A. Dorri, Amy L. Stone, Brooke Izzy Heffington, Pekkam Jenny Njowo, Guadalupe Rivera, Phillip W. Schnarrs, Robert Salcido, Jr.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people disproportionately report high exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). In this study, we examine the ways that LGBTQ people w...
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Cumulative Pandemic Stressors, Psychosocial Resources, and Psychological Distress: Toward a More Comprehensive Test of a Pandemic Stress Process Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Patricia Louie, Laura Upenieks, Terrence D. Hill
Although the mental health consequences of individual COVID-19 stressors (e.g., bereavement, job loss, or financial strain) have been well-documented, little is known about the cumulative toll of m...
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Working Around the Clock: The Association between Shift Work, Sleep Health, and Depressive Symptoms among Midlife Adults Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Cleothia Frazier
Shift work is an integral part of living in a 24-hour society. However, shift work can disrupt circadian rhythms, negatively impacting health. Guided by the Stress Process Model (SPM), this study e...
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Personal Network Size and Social Accompaniment: Protective or Risk Factor for Momentary Loneliness, and for Whom? Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Alyssa W. Goldman, Ellen L. Compernolle
Personal networks yield important health benefits for individuals, in part by providing more opportunities to be in the company of others throughout daily life. Social accompaniment is generally be...
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Drinker Identity Development: Shame, Pride, and a Thirst to Belong Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Colter J. Uscola
Identity theorists assume that individuals intentionally construct and maintain a culturally valued sense of self. Although this logic makes sense for positive identities—doctor, parent, or scienti...
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Treatment’s Role in Clinical and Perceived Recoveries from Mental Illness Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Peggy A. Thoits
How mental health treatment relates to clinical and perceived recoveries is examined with the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health data, drawing from treatment-seeking and labeling theories....
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Welcome to the Dark Side: The Role of Religious/Spiritual Struggles in the Black-White Mental Health Paradox Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Laura Upenieks, Patricia Louie, Terrence D. Hill
Over the past two decades, researchers have worked to make sense of the fact that black Americans tend to exhibit similar or better mental health profiles relative to their white counterparts. In t...
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The Risk for Food Insecurity and Suicide Ideation among Young Adults in the United States: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Stress and Social Isolation Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Carlyn Graham, Gabriele Ciciurkaite
Young adults in the United States have the highest prevalence of suicidal thoughts of any adult age group. While limited, research indicates food insecurity heightens the risk of suicide ideation a...
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Vicarious Experiences of Major Discrimination and Psychological Distress among Black Men and Women Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Myles D. Moody, Courtney S. Thomas Tobin, Christy L. Erving
Racism-related stress frameworks posit that the discriminatory experiences of one’s loved ones may threaten one’s well-being, but relatively few studies have examined how they may impact mental hea...
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Religious Transitions, Sexual Minority Status, and Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence to Early Adulthood Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 R. Kyle Saunders, Amy M. Burdette, Dawn Carr, Terrence D. Hill
Given that sexual minorities have been historically stigmatized within institutions of religion, they may be less likely to exhibit any health benefits from religious participation. In this article...
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Disability, Discrimination, and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Stress Process Model Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Robyn Lewis Brown, Gabriele Ciciurkaite
Drawing on data from a community survey with a sizeable subsample of people with physical, intellectual, and psychological disabilities in the Intermountain West region of the United States (N = 2,...
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Workplace Age Discrimination and Social-psychological Well-being Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Vincent J. Roscigno, Hui Zheng, Martha Crowley
The research literature on workplace inequality has given comparatively little attention to age discrimination and its social-psychological consequences. In this article, we highlight useful insigh...
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Gendered Racial Microaggressions, Psychosocial Resources, and Depressive Symptoms among Black Women Attending a Historically Black University Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Christy L. Erving, Tiffany R. Williams, Whitney Frierson, Megan Derisse
The current study integrates stress process model and intersectionality framework to explore psychological effects of an intersectional stressor experienced by black women: gendered racial microagg...
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Psychosocial Coping Resources and the Toll of COVID-19 Bereavement Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Matthew K. Grace, Jane S. VanHeuvelen
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a bereavement crisis unparalleled in a generation, with devastating consequences for the mental health of those who lost a loved one to the virus. Using national su...
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Parent and/or Grandparent Attendance at Residential School and Dimensions of Cultural Identity and Engagement: Associations with Mental Health and Substance Use among First Nations Adults Living off Reserve Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Tara Hahmann, Amanda Perri, Huda Masoud, Amy Bombay
Limited studies have assessed how parent and/or grandparent attendance at residential schools is associated with mental health and substance use among First Nations peoples living off reserve, whil...
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The Uneven Stress of Social Change: Disruptions, Disparities, and Mental Health Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Phyllis Moen
As the COVID-19 pandemic underscores, disparities in stress exposure, vulnerability, and protective resources are often magnified in times of rapid change. I argue that Leonard Pearlin’s integration of life course and stress process frameworks constitutes a useful model for advancing a research agenda on the stressors and corollary mental health impacts of the social disruptions and dislocations defining
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COVID-19 Onset, Parental Status, and Psychological Distress among Full-time Employed Heterosexual Adults in Dual-earning Relationships: The Explanatory Role of Work-family Conflict and Guilt Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Shirin Montazer, Krista M. Brumley, Laura Pineault, Katheryn Maguire, Boris Baltes
We propose that the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions to daily life that followed had greater negative impact on the mental health, as measured by psychological distress, of employed parents than nonparents, because of an associated increase in both directions of work-family conflict and work-family guilt among this group of the population. To test this argument, we examined pooled data from two
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Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Mothers’ Parental Stress Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Xu Yan
Studies on parenting and mental health have documented both racial differences in mothers’ parental stress levels and mixed evidence on the impacts of mothers’ socioeconomic status (SES) on their parental stress. Less is known about how the association between mothers’ SES and parental stress varies by race, or to what extent this variation contributes to racial differences in mothers’ levels of parental
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Health System Access for Precariously Housed Youth: A Participatory Youth Research Project Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Naomi Nichols, Jayne Malenfant
This article builds from young people’s experiences navigating health system organizations to identify concrete institutional and policy processes that pose problems for youth experiencing or at risk of homelessness, as well as those that show promise in terms of health promotion. Our participatory youth research team explored homeless youth’s health-seeking practices, the specific barriers they face
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From the “Magna Carta” to “Dying in the Streets”: Media Framings of Mental Health Law in California Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-01-22 Alex V. Barnard
This article analyzes 575 newspaper articles across 53 years of reporting on California’s landmark 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act to examine framings of the challenges people with severe mental illness pose to the social order and shifting responses to them. The LPS Act restricted involuntary hospitalization which in the 1960s made it a “Magna Carta” that heralded a “mental health revolution”
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Mental Health Treatment Histories, Recovery, and Well-being Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2022-01-08 Peggy A. Thoits
Epidemiological and sociological research on recovery from mental disorder is based on three rarely tested medical model assumptions: (1) recovery without treatment is the result of less severe illness, (2) treatment predicts recovery, and (3) recovery and well–being do not depend on individuals’ treatment histories. I challenge these assumptions using National Comorbidity Survey-Replication data for
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Mental Health Stigma and Social Contact Revisited: The Role of Network Closeness and Negativity Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2021-09-11 Elizabeth Felix, Freda Lynn
Researchers and policymakers are increasingly interested in the extent to which mental health stigma can be mitigated through social contact with people who disclose mental health issues. Empirical research on contact and stigma, however, largely focuses on the presence of contact without fully examining the nature of relationships. Interpersonal ties, for example, can be enduring and supportive, enduring
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The Disjuncture between Medication Adherence and Recovery-centered Principles in Early Psychosis Intervention: An Institutional Ethnography Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2021-08-18 Elaine Stasiulis, Barbara E. Gibson, Fiona Webster, Katherine M. Boydell
To examine how recovery principles are enacted in an early psychosis intervention (EPI) clinic, we used an institutional ethnographic approach focused on how the ideology of medication adherence organizes young people’s experiences of EPI services. Methods included ethnographic observation, in-depth interviews with 27 participants (18 clinic staff, four young people, and five family members), and textual
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Aspiring to Do All Things Through Him Who Strengthens? Quixotic Hope, Religiosity, and Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Laura Upenieks
Beliefs about the probability of educational success tend to be very optimistic in the United States. However, scholars are beginning to uncover mental health consequences associated with quixotic hope—the unrealistic outstripping of expectation by aspiration. Using longitudinal data from Waves 1 and 3 of the National Study of Youth and Religion, this study asks, (1) does religiosity promote or diminish
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Falling Behind and Feeling Bad: Unmet Expectations and Mental Health during the Transition to Adulthood Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Elizabeth Culatta, Jody Clay-Warner
How do perceived expectations of what it means to be an adult affect mental health? We draw from life course and social psychological literature to argue that falling behind perceived expectations for reaching markers of adulthood is associated with depression and anxiety. We test predictions with data from an original sample of more than five hundred 18- to 29-year-olds in the United States. Consistent
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Treatment Network Typologies and the Working Alliance of Clients with Serious Mental Illness Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 George S. Usmanov, Eric R. Wright, Raeda K. Anderson
The climate and culture of treatment for clients with serious mental illness (SMI) are complex. In this study, we aim to cultivate a deeper understanding of the treatment environment using a network typological approach to measure the local treatment context and assess its implications on the perceived quality of clients’ relationships with their care providers. We use in-depth egocentric network data
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Perceived Distributive Unfairness and Mental Health: The Gender-contingent Buffering Effects of Religion Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Jong Hyun Jung
Prior research has established that perceived distributive unfairness is associated with poor mental health. The purpose of this study is to examine whether religion moderates this association and whether gender conditions the moderating effects of religion. Using data from the 2012 Korean General Social Survey (N = 1,375), the current analyses show that perceived distributive unfairness is positively
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A Mixed-method Study of the Effects of Post-migration Economic Stressors on the Mental Health of Recently Resettled Refugees Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-11-27 Jessica Goodkind, Julieta Ferrera, David Lardier, Julia Meredith Hess, R. Neil Greene
After years of emphasis on pre-migration trauma as the major determinant of refugee mental health, researchers have begun to explore the effects of post-migration stressors on refugees’ distress. However, few studies have brought together refugees’ emic understandings of the effects of economic stressors on their mental health with quantitative data sets to further explore the salience of stress processes
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Editorial Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-10-22
Adam, Barry
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Does Relative Deprivation within Schools Influence Adolescent Depression? Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-09-19 Jinho Kim
Research on relative deprivation (RD) and health has focused primarily on adult populations. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, this study examines the link between RD and adolescent depression and is the first to test the mechanisms that underlie this relationship. This study finds that controlling for school fixed effects, family income, and observed characteristics
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Disentangling Mental Illness Labeling Effects from Treatment Effects on Well-Being Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-08-27 Peggy A. Thoits
The emerging field of Mad Studies has returned attention to deficiencies of the medical model, refocusing scholars on social causes of mental health problems and on consumers’/survivors’ experiences of labeling and stigma. These themes echo issues addressed in traditional and modified labeling theories. A fundamental labeling premise is that professional categorization as “mentally ill” is a major
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Financial Strain and Psychological Distress: Do Strains in the Work-Family Interface Mediate the Effects? Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Lei Chai, Scott Schieman, Alex Bierman
Analyzing three waves of the Canadian Work Stress and Health Study with cross-lagged models, we asked: (1) How do two distinct directions of strain in the work-family interface—work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict—mediate the relationship between financial strain and psychological distress? and (2) Is reverse causality a possibility in these dynamics? Our results indicate that work-to-family
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Glad Tidings? Personal Witnessing, Religiosity, and Mental Health among U.S. Adults Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-08-06 Mark H. Walker, Leah Drakeford, Samuel Stroope
A growing body of research has documented connections between religious involvement and mental health. However, religion is complex and multidimensional. Religious witnessing, the interpersonal sharing of religious faith, is an important religious practice that has received little attention. Religious witnessing is a relatively unconventional behavior in contemporary American society, yet it can promote
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Depressive Symptoms among Adolescents Exposed to Personal and Vicarious Police Contact Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Kristin Turney
Theories of stress and strain, which emphasize the concentration of social stressors among vulnerable groups, suggest that police contact—the most common type of criminal justice contact—can have deleterious health consequences. Research documents a relationship between police contact and adverse health, but less is known about the mental health consequences of police stops among adolescents. I examined
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Romantic Relationship Quality and Suicidal Ideation in Young Adulthood Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-06-26 Darla Still
Sociological research on suicidal ideation has often focused on structural factors, such as marital status, when analyzing the protective effects of social integration; however, less is known about how the quality of romantic relationships shapes suicidality among young adults. This study uses the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to examine the association between romantic
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Gender, Emotions, and Mental Health in the United States: Patterns, Explanations, and New Directions Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-06-16 Robin W. Simon
I want to begin by thanking Jane McLeod and Brian Powell for nominating me for this award as well as the Awards Committee. Receiving the Pearlin Award (also fondly referred to as The Lenny) has special meaning for me because Len’s 1977 article on marital status, life strains, and depression—which I read as an undergraduate back in the stone age—inspired me to pursue graduate studies in sociology. Len’s
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Social Characteristics as Predictors of ADHD Labeling across the Life Course Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-05-18 Melissa Thompson, Lindsey Wilkinson, Hyeyoung Woo
Although originally considered to be a disorder of childhood, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is increasingly being diagnosed for the first time in adulthood. Yet we know little about the social characteristics (race, gender, and social class) of those first labeled in adulthood, how these differ from those first labeled in childhood/adolescence, and whether the ADHD label is applied
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The “How” Question of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Understanding Psychosocial Resources and Demands as Pathways Linking Migration to Mental Health Risks Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-04-24 Fei-Ju Yang
The current migrant health literature tends to focus on what determines immigrants’ mental health rather than how pathways such as psychosocial resources mediate the relationship between years since migration and mental health. Based on 4,282 foreign-born Canadian immigrant samples, this study includes both psychological distress and positive mental health as mental health measures because immigrants
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The Long-Term Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children’s Distress Trajectories in Adulthood Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Christina Kamis
Using six waves of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2007-2017) and the Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study (2014) (N = 3,240), this paper estimates how childhood experiences with parental mental health problems shape trajectories of children’s distress in adulthood. Findings indicate that those who experience poor parental mental health have consistently greater distress than their
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Into the Prodrome: Diagnosis, Disadvantage, and Biomedical Ambiguity Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Michael Allan Halpin
Within the field of neuroscience, a new illness stage called the “prodrome” is being characterized. The prodrome is a symptomatic period that precedes an official diagnosis. Huntington Disease (HD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder that has an extensively researched prodrome marked by psychiatric and cognitive symptoms. This paper provides a sociological investigation of the prodrome by analyzing 24 interviews
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“They Understand What You’re Going Through”: Experientially Similar Others, Anticipatory Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Matthew K. Grace
Past research demonstrates that experientially similar others—people who have confronted the same stressor or who occupy the same social role—are uniquely equipped to provide empathic understanding and tailored coping strategies to individuals navigating comparable, taxing circumstances. Using the case of premedical education, fixed-effects regression analyses of egocentric network data (N = 286) indicate
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Changes in City-Level Foreclosure Rates and Home Prices through the Great Recession and Depressive Symptoms among Older Americans Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Jason Settels
The changing economic fortunes of cities influence mental health. However, the mechanisms through which this occurs are underexplored. I address this gap by investigating the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Using the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project survey (N = 1,341), I study whether rises in cities’ home foreclosure rates and declines in median home prices through the Great Recession
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Effects of Perceived Public Regard on the Well-Being of Military Veterans Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2019-12-15 Fred E. Markowitz, Sara M. Kintzle, Carl A. Castro, Steven L. Lancaster
Many military veterans face considerable challenges reintegrating into civilian life. Evidence suggests the general public holds conflicting attitudes toward veterans. This study examines how perceived public attitudes play a role in veterans’ mental health and well-being. Drawing from and extending interactionist theories of self-concept, stigma, and mental health recovery, we develop and estimate
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Couple-Level Minority Stress and Mental Health among People in Same-Sex Relationships: Extending Minority Stress Theory Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2019-11-13 Allen J. LeBlanc, David M. Frost
We simultaneously examined the effects of individual- and couple-level minority stressors on mental health among people in same-sex relationships. Individual-level minority stressors emerge from the stigmatization of sexual minority individuals; couple-level minority stressors emerge from the stigmatization of same-sex relationships. Dyadic data from 100 same-sex couples from across the United States
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College Selectivity, Subjective Social Status, and Mental Health in Young Adulthood Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2019-08-17 Jeremy E. Uecker, Lindsay R. Wilkinson
Research on education and mental health has focused primarily on the benefits of higher levels of educational attainment. Other aspects of education, such as college selectivity, may also be associated with mental health, and higher subjective social status (SSS) is a potential pathway through which college selectivity and mental health could be linked. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study
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The Effects of Family Transitions on Depressive Symptoms: Differences among Young Adults with and without Childhood Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2019-06-28 Rhiannon A. Kroeger, Debra Umberson, Daniel A. Powers, Danequa L. Forrest
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is tied to higher levels of depression, but the social factors that shape these associations are not well understood. This study considers whether family transitions affect depressive symptoms differently for young adults with and without childhood symptoms of ADHD at subthreshold or diagnostic levels. Between-within regression analysis of nationally
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Immigration, Visible-Minority Status, Gender, and Depression Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2019-06-19 Shirin Montazer
This study examines if the association between length of residence and mental health—as measured by depression—of immigrants post-arrival in the host country is altered by visible-minority status and gender among a sample of immigrants to Toronto, Canada, as compared to the native-born. The analytic sample excluded refugees. Of the 1,911 adults included, 23 percent were foreign-born. Adjusted multivariate
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A Multilevel Investigation into Contextual Reliability in the Designation of Cognitive Health Conditions among U.S. Children Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2019-05-10 Dara Shifrer, Rachel Fish
Unreliable diagnoses (e.g., based on inconsistent criteria, subjective) may be inaccurate and even inequitable. This study uses an event history approach with yearly child- and school-level data from 378,919 children in a large urban school district in the southwestern United States between 2006–2007 and 2011–2012 to investigate contextual reliability in the designation of cognitive health conditions
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LGBTQ+ Latino/a Young People’s Interpretations of Stigma and Mental Health: An Intersectional Minority Stress Perspective Society and Mental Health (IF 3.615) Pub Date : 2019-05-08 Rachel M. Schmitz, Brandon Andrew Robinson, Jennifer Tabler, Brett Welch, Sidra Rafaqut
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ+) young people of color encounter interlocking systems of social prejudice and discrimination. However, little is understood about how subjective meanings of perceived structural stigma associated with multiple marginalized social statuses influence mental health. We document how perceived stigma can shape mental health inequalities among multiply