Mental health implications of being labelled a threat to society during adolescence among diverse groups

不同群体在青春期被贴上社会威胁标签的心理健康影响

• 批准号: 2297136
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2297136
• 关键词: Mental; health; implications; being; labelled

he prevalence of mental health problems among adolescents in Englandis 14% [1]. In adults, there are clear and unexplained differences in thetypes of mental health problems experienced by white and black people;for instance, rates of psychosis are higher among black people [2]. Amongyoung people, though, research suggests similarities in mental healthproblems between black and white youths, despite, on average, higherprevalence of risk factors among black adolescents [3]. Understandingethnic differences in the development of mental health problems duringadolescence and into adulthood is a key focus of REACH (Resilience,Ethnicity and AdolesCent Mental Health), the research group I've beenworking in for the last 2 years.Negatively stigmatising people from an early age has adverse impactsand we know this to be the case even if the label is unfounded. As anexample, from educational psychology, "teachers and parents are morelikely to perceive disabilities in and hold lower educational expectations forlabelled adolescents than for similarly achieving and behaving adolescentsnot labelled with disabilities" [4]. My proposal is to produce is a novelperspective on how the process of labelling young people as a potentialthreat to society affects their mental health, and whether these effectsdiffer by ethnic groups and among migrants. The theoretical frameworkbehind labelling theory involves an individual receiving a label that they didnot choose for themselves and assumes that, although an outcome canstem from other causes, once an individual has been defined as deviant,problematic or dangerous "they face new problems that stem from thereactions of self and others to negative stigma that are attached to thatlabel" [5, 6, 7]. There is a plethora of research in adults on thecriminogenic processes triggered by labelling [5] and, separately, thestigma associated with mental health problems [8]. But there is very littleresearch, locally and globally, on the mental health implications of beinglabelled a threat to society at an early age.

英国青少年心理健康问题的患病率为14% [1]。在成年人中，白色人和黑人所经历的精神健康问题类型存在明显且无法解释的差异;例如，精神病的发病率在黑人中较高[2]。然而，在年轻人中，研究表明黑人和白色青年的心理健康问题相似，尽管平均而言，黑人青少年的风险因素更高[3]。了解不同种族在青少年和成年期心理健康问题发展中的差异是REACH（弹性、种族和青少年心理健康）的一个重点，我在过去的两年里一直在这个研究小组工作。从小就对人们进行负面的污名化会产生负面影响，我们知道这是事实，即使标签是没有根据的。作为一个例子，从教育心理学，“教师和家长更容易感知残疾，并持有较低的教育期望为标记的青少年比类似的实现和行为的自主性，而不是标记为残疾”[4]。我的建议是从一个新的角度来看待给年轻人贴上社会潜在威胁的标签是如何影响他们的心理健康的，以及这些影响是否因种族和移民而异。标签理论背后的理论框架涉及到一个人接受一个他们没有为自己选择的标签，并假设，尽管结果可以源于其他原因，一旦一个人被定义为异常，有问题或危险的“他们面临着新的问题，这些问题源于自我和他人对附加到标签上的负面污名的反应”[5，6，7]。有大量关于标签引发的成年人犯罪过程的研究[5]，以及与心理健康问题相关的痕迹[8]。但是，在地方和全球范围内，很少有研究表明，在很小的时候就被贴上社会威胁的标签会对心理健康产生什么影响。