A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG RACE, SOCIAL-CLASS, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS
A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG RACE, SOCIAL-CLASS, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS
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DOI：
10.2307/2136310
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发表时间：
1986-06-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
NEIGHBORS, HW
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作者：
KESSLER, RC;NEIGHBORS, HW
在过去的十年里，一系列的研究表明种族和心理痛苦之间的关系完全是由社会阶层造成的。在我们的论文中，我们证明了这种观点是不正确的：大多数先前的研究都假设种族和社会阶层的影响是加性的;我们的分析表明，它们实际上是相互作用的。在没有考虑相互作用的模型中，种族的真实影响被抑制，社会阶层的真实影响被放大。对八项不同流行病学调查的分析记录了这一结果，并表明心理困扰的种族差异在低收入人群中尤为明显。基于这一结果，我们呼吁重新关注种族对心理健康的影响。
Over the past decade, a body of research has developed which purports to show that the well-established relationship between race and psychological distress is due entirely to social class. In our paper we demonstrate that this view is incorrect: Most prior research has assumed that the effects of race and social class are additive; our analysis shows that they are actually interactive. The form of intractions is such that the true effect of race is suppressed and the true effect of social class is magnified in a model that fails to take the interaction into consideration. An analysis of eight different epidemiologic surveys documents this result and shows that race differences in psychological distress are particularly pronounced among people with low incomes. On the basis of this result we call for renewed interest in the effect of race on mental health.