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- Perceived Distributive Unfairness and Mental Health: The Gender-contingent
Buffering Effects of Religion- Authors: Jong Hyun Jung
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 associated with depression. However, each of the two indicators of religion—religious attendance and salience—weakens the positive association between perceived distributive unfairness and depression among women, but not men. These observations suggest that religion provides a stress-buffering effect against perceived distributive unfairness only for women. Thus, the findings of this study highlight the gendered ways that religion shapes the association between perceived distributive unfairness and mental health. I discuss the theoretical implications of these findings for views about the complex interrelationships among stress, coping resources, gender, and mental health.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2021-01-20T05:05:57Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320978793
- Editorial Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers
- Pages: 305 - 305
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Volume 10, Issue 3, Page 305-305, November 2020.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-10-22T01:17:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320965885
Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 3 (2020)
- A Mixed-method Study of the Effects of Post-migration Economic Stressors
on the Mental Health of Recently Resettled Refugees- Authors: Jessica Goodkind, Julieta Ferrera, David Lardier, Julia Meredith Hess, R. Neil Greene
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 as an explanatory mechanism. In qualitative interviews, 41 percent of 290 recently resettled adult refugees noted that economic stressors were a major source of distress and described pathways through which these stressors negatively influenced their mental health by limiting their ability to learn English, obtain meaningful employment, access health care, maintain contact with their families, and integrate into their communities. In structural equation modeling of quantitative data, we tested several possible hypotheses that emerged from the qualitative findings. We find that post-migration economic stressors mediated the relationship between migration-related trauma and post-migration emotional distress and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. These findings provide empirical support for stress proliferation as a mechanism through which trauma exposure contributes to distress.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-11-28T07:19:02Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320973446
- Does Relative Deprivation within Schools Influence Adolescent
Depression'- Authors: Jinho Kim
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 of students and their families, students with higher RD within schools exhibit more depressive symptoms. This study also considers how RD may influence adolescent depression. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal that a combination of lowered self-esteem and future expectations (especially about educational attainment) explains nearly half of the association between RD and adolescent depression. Results of this study suggest that social inequality and stratification may implicate population health in the next generation through socioeconomic stratification within schools.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-09-19T08:04:57Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320959396
- Disentangling Mental Illness Labeling Effects from Treatment Effects on
Well-Being- Authors: Peggy A. Thoits
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 determinant of individuals’ poorer psychological well-being. However, this relationship has not been tested appropriately because past studies frequently measured formal labeling by a person’s involvement in treatment. Treatment involvement can indicate the receipt of potentially beneficial services or harmful categorization with a stigmatizing label. Independent measures of these constructs in the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication enable reexamining traditional and modified labeling hypotheses for individuals with (N = 1,255) and without (N = 4,172) a recurrent clinical disorder. Supporting labeling theory’s central proposition, formal labeling was linked to more negative affect and disability days in both groups. These relationships were not spurious products of preexisting serious symptoms, refuting a psychiatric explanation. Treatment involvement effects differed noticeably between the groups, underscoring the need to keep treatment and labeling measures distinct.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-08-28T05:31:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320949598
- Financial Strain and Psychological Distress: Do Strains in the Work-Family
Interface Mediate the Effects'- Authors: Lei Chai, Scott Schieman, Alex Bierman
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 conflict at Wave 2 mediates the relationship between financial strain at Wave 1 and distress at Wave 3, but family-to-work conflict does not function as a mediator. Financial strain is therefore indirectly associated with subsequently higher levels of distress. In tests for reverse causality, we found little evidence that distress is associated with subsequently higher levels of financial strain—and neither work-to-family conflict nor family-to-work conflict at Wave 2 mediates that relationship. We interpret our findings within the conceptual and empirical ideas associated with stress proliferation, social causation, and social selection/drift.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-08-20T02:20:06Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320947463
- Glad Tidings' Personal Witnessing, Religiosity, and Mental Health
among U.S. Adults- Authors: Mark H. Walker, Leah Drakeford, Samuel Stroope
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 social interaction and belonging and has implications for personal identity and sense of self-worth. Using data from a 2010 national random sample (N = 1,342) of U.S. adults, we examine associations between religious witnessing and mental health and the moderating role of public and private religiosity. Mental health is measured using three classes of psychiatric symptoms (general anxiety, social anxiety, and paranoia). Results show that witnessing is related to positive mental health among more highly religious individuals and negative mental health among less religious individuals. Drawing from identity theory and authenticity research, we argue that the contingent impact of religious witnessing on mental health can be explained by (1) participation in social contexts and groups conducive to religious self-expression and (2) the interplay between witnessing, private religiosity, and feelings of authenticity.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-08-06T11:30:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320936733
- Depressive Symptoms among Adolescents Exposed to Personal and Vicarious
Police Contact- Authors: Kristin Turney
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 this with data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,437), a longitudinal survey of individuals born around the turn of the 21st century and followed over a 15-year period. First, personal police contact and vicarious but not personal police contact (both compared to no police contact) are positively associated with depressive symptoms, net of characteristics associated with police contact (including prior mental health, delinquency, and impulsivity). Second, more intrusive police contact (such as stops that include frisks or searches) is positively associated with depressive symptoms. Third, the association between police contact and depressive symptoms is concentrated among girls and Blacks. Given the concentration of police contact among already vulnerable adolescents living in highly surveilled and disadvantaged neighborhoods, those same adolescents at greatest risk of health impairments, police contact may exacerbate population health disparities.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-07-03T08:51:59Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320923095
- Romantic Relationship Quality and Suicidal Ideation in Young Adulthood
- Authors: Darla Still
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 relationship quality and suicidal ideation in young adulthood. Results indicate that simply being in a romantic relationship is unrelated to suicidal ideation. In fact, odds of reporting suicidal ideation are comparable for respondents who are married or cohabiting and respondents who are single or dating. Findings show that respondents who report greater romantic relationship quality in any romantic relation type are less likely to report suicidal ideation. This study contributes to previous research in the sociology of mental health by extending our understanding of the protective role of relationship quality.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-06-27T06:29:22Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320929386
- Social Characteristics as Predictors of ADHD Labeling across the Life
Course- Authors: Melissa Thompson, Lindsey Wilkinson, Hyeyoung Woo
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 proportionately across social groups given ADHD symptomology. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the current research considers how typifications of ADHD affect application of the ADHD label in childhood/adolescence and in adulthood. Results indicate that even after controlling for ADHD symptoms, social characteristics are important predictors of the ADHD label in childhood/adolescence but are less influential in predicting ADHD labeling in adulthood. Additionally, results indicate the importance of race in moderating the association between childhood ADHD symptoms and application of the ADHD label throughout the life course.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-05-18T08:42:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320916535
- The “How” Question of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Understanding
Psychosocial Resources and Demands as Pathways Linking Migration to Mental
Health Risks- Authors: Fei-Ju Yang
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 do not necessarily respond to stress by exhibiting distress. The correlation between psychological distress and positive mental health shows that these two measures are interrelated but distinctive concepts. Using piecewise regression models, this study finds that midterm immigrants have the highest levels of psychological distress and interpersonal strain. Guided by the stress process model, this study indicates that interpersonal strain acts as a major pathway to immigrants’ psychological distress but not positive mental health.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-04-24T07:40:52Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320913090
- The Long-Term Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children’s Distress
Trajectories in Adulthood- Authors: Christina Kamis
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 non-exposed counterparts throughout adulthood. More severe and longer exposures to parental mental health problems correspond to even greater distress in adulthood. The gender of the parent afflicted does not predict differences in adult mental health, but those individuals exposed to both maternal and paternal poor mental health have the greatest distress in adulthood. Together, results suggest that parental mental health during children’s formative years is a significant predictor of life course distress and that heterogeneity in this experience corresponds to unique mental health trajectories.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-03-20T10:53:45Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320912520
- Into the Prodrome: Diagnosis, Disadvantage, and Biomedical Ambiguity
- Authors: Michael Allan Halpin
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 with individuals with HD and 14 interviews with informal caregivers. I find that substantial disadvantages accompany the prodromal phase of HD, with the prodrome connected to: (1) inability to access healthcare, (2) inability to access health resources, (3) the depletion of personal resources, and (4) caregiver burden. Documentation of such disadvantages is important as prodromal phases are connected to a growing number of conditions. Study findings are discussed in relation to medicalization, as well as the tension between medical ambiguity and the organization of health institutions.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-03-18T01:37:22Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320912456
- “They Understand What You’re Going Through”: Experientially Similar
Others, Anticipatory Stress, and Depressive Symptoms- Authors: Matthew K. Grace
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 that premeds whose support networks include a greater proportion of premedical peers over time experience fewer depressive symptoms. However, among premeds who report greater anticipatory stress about failing to achieve medical school admission, the presence of additional peers in support networks strengthens the detrimental effects of anticipatory stress. Qualitative data (n = 39) shed light on this empirical puzzle. Although peers offer a broad spectrum of support functions, they can also accentuate stressors or serve as a basis for negative social comparison. These findings introduce new considerations for theorizing the role of similar other support in the stress process.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-03-10T09:49:12Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869320910773
- Changes in City-Level Foreclosure Rates and Home Prices through the Great
Recession and Depressive Symptoms among Older Americans- Authors: Jason Settels
Abstract: Society and Mental Health, Ahead of Print.
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 increase older persons’ depressive symptoms. I also study possible mediation through household assets declines. I find that increases in cities’ home foreclosure rates and declines in median home prices increase depressive symptoms beyond the effects of personal financial losses. Results show no evidence of mediation through asset loses, suggesting effects through other channels. Supplementary analyses reveal less direct links between changes in city-level unemployment rates and median household incomes and changes in depressive symptoms.
Citation: Society and Mental Health
PubDate: 2020-01-02T09:08:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/2156869319895568
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