Socioeconomic status and psychologic distress in adult blacks.
Socioeconomic status and psychologic distress in adult blacks.
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成年黑人的社会经济地位和心理困扰。
DOI：
10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114454
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发表时间：
1986
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
H. Neighbors
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作者：
H. Neighbors
大多数关于种族和心理健康的流行病学研究都是在区域数据集上进行的，这些数据集包含非常少量的黑人受访者。因此，关于黑人人口中风险群体的数据汇编数量有限。本文认为，更好的信息，风险群体，可以从少数群体人口的特殊调查收集。数据分析来自美国黑人全国调查，这是1979-1980年收集的成年（18岁及以上）黑人人口的全国代表性样本（n = 2，107）。本文通过探索三个社会经济地位指标与不同问题情况下的心理困扰之间的关系，用八项症状自评量表扩展了这些数据的先前工作。回归分析显示，个人收入、家庭收入和贫困指数都与痛苦呈负相关--但只有在那些表示他们因为经济或身体健康问题而感到不安的受访者中。这三个指标与情绪调节问题的困扰呈正相关。这些研究结果的精神病学和预防干预计划的影响进行了讨论。
Most epidemiologic studies of race and mental health are conducted on regional data sets which contain very small numbers of black respondents. As a result, the amount of data compiled on risk groups within the black population is limited. This paper argues that better information on risk groups can be gathered from special surveys of minority group populations. Data are analyzed from the National Survey of Black Americans, a nationally representative sample of the adult (18 years and older) black population collected in 1979-1980 (n = 2,107). The paper extends prior work on these data by exploring the relation between three socioeconomic status indicators and psychologic distress for different problem situations with an eight-item symptom checklist. Regression analyses revealed that personal income, family income, and a poverty index were all negatively related to distress--but only among respondents who indicated that they were upset because of an economic or physical health problem. These three indicators were positively related to distress among those with an emotional adjustment problem. The implications of these findings for psychiatric epidemiology and preventive intervention programs are discussed.