Socioemotional wellbeing of mixed race/ethnicity children in the UK and US: Patterns and mechanisms.
Socioemotional wellbeing of mixed race/ethnicity children in the UK and US: Patterns and mechanisms.
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10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.06.010
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2018-08
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Sacker A
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Nazroo J;Zilanawala A;Chen M;Bécares L;Davis-Kean P;Jackson JS;Kelly Y;Panico L;Sacker A
现有文献表明，在美国和英国，混血/族裔儿童更有可能经历较差的社会情感健康，尽管美国的证据更为有力。有人认为，这种不平等可能是身份形成斗争、与种族/民族/文化遗产的联系更加有限以及遭受种族主义风险增加的结果。使用英国千禧队列研究 (n = 13,734) 和美国早期儿童纵向研究出生队列 (n ~ 6250) 的数据，我们研究了英国和美国混合和非混合 5/6 岁儿童的社会情感健康差异，并探讨了两个地点不同混合群体结果的异质性。我们估计了一系列线性回归，以检查可能解释任何观察到的差异的因素的贡献，包括社会经济和文化因素，并检查这些过程在两国之间的差异程度。我们没有发现任何证据表明，在这两个国家背景下，混血/族裔儿童的社会情感健康状况不佳的风险更大。我们发现，与非混血少数族裔儿童相比，混血/族裔儿童具有社会经济优势，并且社会经济优势可以保护社会情感健康。文化因素不会导致混合群体和非混合群体的社会情感健康差异。我们的证据表明，没有证据表明英国或美国的混血/族裔儿童在 5/6 岁时社会情感健康状况较差。我们的研究结果与之前的一些文献（报告称混血/族裔儿童的社会情感健康状况较差）之间的对比可能反映了我们研究的儿童在不同时期和/或发展阶段的混合身份含义的变化。混血/族裔儿童被认为具有较差的社会情感健康 我们在一项针对美国和英国 5/6 岁儿童的研究中没有发现任何证据表明混血/族裔儿童的社会情感福祉较差 我们发现混血/族裔儿童确实具有社会经济优势 这种社会经济优势可以保护社会情感福祉
Existing literature suggests that mixed race/ethnicity children are more likely to experience poor socioemotional wellbeing in both the US and the UK, although the evidence is stronger in the US. It is suggested that this inequality may be a consequence of struggles with identity formation, more limited connections with racial/ethnic/cultural heritage, and increased risk of exposure to racism. Using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (n = 13,734) and the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n ~ 6250), we examine differences in the socioemotional wellbeing of mixed and non-mixed 5/6 year old children in the UK and US and explore heterogeneity in outcomes across different mixed groups in both locations. We estimate a series of linear regressions to examine the contribution of factors that may explain any observed differences, including socio-economic and cultural factors, and examine the extent to which these processes vary across the two nations. We find no evidence of greater risk for poor socioemotional wellbeing for mixed race/ethnicity children in both national contexts. We find that mixed race/ethnicity children experience socio-economic advantage compared to their non-mixed minority counterparts and that socio-economic advantage is protective for socioemotional wellbeing. Cultural factors do not contribute to differences in socioemotional wellbeing across mixed and non-mixed groups. Our evidence suggests then that at age 5/6 there is no evidence of poorer socioemotional wellbeing for mixed race/ethnicity children in either the UK or the US. The contrast between our findings and some previous literature, which reports that mixed race/ethnicity children have poorer socioemotional wellbeing, may reflect changes in the meaning of mixed identities across periods and/or the developmental stage of the children we studied. Mixed race/ethnicity children are thought to have poorer socioemotional wellbeing We find no evidence that mixed race/ethnicity children have poorer socioemotional wellbeing in a study covering children aged 5/6 in the US and UK We find that mixed race/ethnicity children do have socio-economic advantage This socio-economic advantage is protective for socioemotional wellbeing