Examining the Influences of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Social Capital on the Subjective Health of Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Almgren, Gunnar; Magarati, Maya; Mogford, Liz
Titel	Examining the Influences of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Social Capital on the Subjective Health of Adolescents
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 32 (2009) 1, S.109-133 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2007.11.003
Schlagwörter	Individual Characteristics; Race; Adolescents; Foreign Countries; Social Networks; Gender Differences; Social Capital; Immigrants; Health; Student Surveys; High School Seniors; Parent Child Relationship; Control Groups; School Safety; Vietnamese People; Asian Americans; Cambodians; Ethnicity; Student Attitudes; Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Rasse; Abstammung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Ausland; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Geschlechterkonflikt; Sozialkapital; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Gesundheit; Schülerbefragung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Kambodschanisch; Ethnizität; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	We investigate the factors that influence adolescent self-assessed health, based upon surveys conducted between 2000 and 2004 of high-school seniors in Washington State (N = 6853). A large proportion of the sample (30%) was first and second generation immigrants from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Findings include a robust negative effect of female gender on self-reported health that is largely unmodified by demographic, developmental, social capital, and parental support variables, gender differences in the covariates of self-reported health, and the tendency of male adolescents of Cambodian and Vietnamese origin to report lower levels of self-reported health despite controls for other health-related individual characteristics. Social capital dimensions such as positive school affiliation, social network cohesion, and a safe learning environment were found to covary with the self-reported health of adolescent females. (Contains 1 figure and 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10