Migration Networks and Depression

移民网络与萧条

• 批准号: 7326849
• 负责人: Gerald Francis Lackey
• 金额: $ 1.48万
• 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 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7326849
• 关键词: Acculturation; Adoption; Adult; Affect; Appendix; Area; Attitude; Behavioral; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Class; Communities; Congresses; Country; Data; Education; Emotional; Equation; European; Exposure to; Fibrinogen; Gender; Goals; Health; Hispanics; Home environment; Immigrant; Immigration; Income; Individual; Knowledge; Language; Literature; Measurement; Measures; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Mood Disorders; National Institute of Mental Health; Native-Born; Nature; Numbers; Outcome; Population; Process; Rate; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Proposals; Resources; Rest; Role; Salmon; Selection Bias; Services; Social Network; Socioeconomic Status; Specific qualifier value; Standards of Weights and Measures; Statutes and Laws; Strategic Planning; Stress; Sum; Surveys; Techniques; Testing; Textiles; Time; Title; Translational Research; Work; depressive symptoms; experience; forgetting; forging; human SLC5A5 protein; improved; interest; melting; member; microwave electromagnetic radiation; migration; social; social capital; symposium; theories; therapy development; trend

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多世纪的研究，但文化适应与心理健康之间的关系在很大程度上仍然是一个谜。这种模糊性最突出的例子被称为“西班牙裔（心理）健康悖论”，即外国出生的移民最初比具有相似阶级、收入、贫乏教育背景的本地出生种族拥有更好的健康/心理健康结果，但随着时间的推移，这些差异会逐渐显现。消失。先前的研究将这种变化归因于“文化适应”，并发现了不同的结果。我认为，感兴趣的变量不是文化适应，而是社交网络联系。该研究项目将利用社交网络连接压力理论和社会资本迁移理论，形成一种研究移民群体心理健康的综合方法。在对资源关系（例如，为个人提供工具性、信息性和情感支持的关系）和强制性关系（例如，从个人那里获得工具性、信息性和情感支持的关系）之间进行概念区分之后，我将首先测试它们的使用抑郁症状学测量并控制所有相关变量对心理健康结果的影响。然后，我将在模型中添加文化适应指标（通过语言使用/理解和媒体曝光来衡量），并检查它是否具有任何直接影响或调解任何社交网络效应。我将进行正式的多组测试，检查原籍国、性别、发送背景和社会经济地位之间的差异。使用新移民调查的第二波数据，结合第一波数据，我将测试一个包含文化适应、网络联系和我在时间 1 和 2 的控制变量的差异模型，以增强所做出的因果主张的强度。所有分析都将使用结构方程建模技术，该技术允许指定直接包含（并减少）测量误差的潜变量测量模型。使用这种方法，我将包括一个包含 12 个指标的单因素文化适应测量模型和一个包含 8 个指标的抑郁症二阶测量模型。此外，还将使用标准估计和缺失数据技术。