Migration Networks and Depression

移民网络与萧条

• 批准号: 7219211
• 负责人: Gerald Francis Lackey
• 金额: $ 2.71万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-12-01 至 2009-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7219211
• 关键词: Hispanic Americans; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical depression; depression; gender difference; human data; human migration; immigrant; language translation; longitudinal human study; mass information media; mathematical model; mental health epidemiology; predoctoral investigator; psychological models; psychological stressor; psychopathology; social support network

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite over a century of research on mental health trends in immigrant populations, the relationship between acculturation and mental health remains largely a mystery. The most prominent example of this ambiguity is known as the Hispanic (Mental) Health Paradox, whereby foreign-born immigrants initially have better health/mental health outcomes than native-born ethnics of similar class, income, arid education backgrounds, but overtime these differences disappear. Previous research has attributed this change to "acculturation" and found varying results. I argue that the variable of interest is not acculturation, but social network ties. This research project will use social networks to bridge stress theory and social capital migration theory to forge an integrated approach to the study of mental health in immigrant populations. After drawing a conceptual distinction between resource ties (e.g., ties that give instrumental, informational, emotional support to an individual) and obligatory ties (e.g., ties that take instrumental, informational, emotional support from an individual), I will begin by testing their effects on mental health outcomes using measures of depressive symptomology, controlling for all relevant variables. I will then add indicators of acculturation (measured by language use/comprehension and media exposure) to the model and examine whether it has any direct effect or mediates any of the social network effects. I will conduct formal multiple-group tests examining differences across country of origin, gender, sending context, and SES. Using the Wave II data from the New Immigrant Survey, in conjunction with the Wave I data, I will test a difference model incorporating acculturation, network ties, and my control variables at time 1 and 2 to add strength to the causal claims being made. All analyses will use structural equation modeling techniques, which allow latent variable measurement models to be specified that directly incorporate (and reduce) measurement error. Using this methodology I will include a one-factor measurement model of acculturation with 12 indicators and a second-order measurement model of depression with eight indicators. Additionally, standard estimation and missing data techniques will be used.

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管对移民人群的心理健康趋势进行了一个世纪的研究，但文化和心理健康之间的关系仍然很大程度上仍然是一个谜。这种歧义的最突出的例子被称为西班牙裔（精神）健康悖论，外国出生的移民最初与类似阶级的本地出生的民族，收入，干旱教育背景相比，其健康/心理健康成果更好消失。先前的研究将这种变化归因于“适应”，并发现了不同的结果。我认为感兴趣的变量不是适应，而是社交网络联系。该研究项目将使用社交网络弥合压力理论和社会资本迁移理论，为移民人口中的心理健康研究综合方法。在对资源联系（例如，为个人提供工具，信息性，情感支持的联系）和强制性联系（例如，获得工具性，信息性，情感支持的联系）进行了概念上的区别之后，我将开始测试他们使用抑郁症状的度量对心理健康结果的影响，控制所有相关变量。然后，我将在模型中添加适应性的指标（通过语言使用/理解和媒体曝光衡量），并检查它是否具有任何直接效果或介导任何社交网络效应。我将进行正式的多组测试，以研究各国，性别，发送环境和SES的差异。使用新移民调查中的Wave II数据，以及Wave I数据，我将测试一个差异模型，该模型在时间1和2时在时间1和2时测试了我的控制变量，以增加所做的因果要求。所有分析都将使用结构方程建模技术，该技术允许指定可直接合并（并减少）测量误差的潜在变量测量模型。使用此方法，我将包括一个具有12个指标的文化化的一因素测量模型，并具有八个指标的抑郁症测量模型。此外，将使用标准估计和缺失的数据技术。