Bowe Anica G
Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 48309, United States.
J Adolesc. 2017 Feb;55:72-76. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.01.002. Epub 2017 Jan 6.
Understanding the immigrant paradox on health outcomes among UK's immigrant adolescents will greatly complement the research on immigrants that has already been established there by economists and interdisciplinary fields. This study used the first Longitudinal Study of Young People in England 2004-2010 database (N = 15,770) to determine a) whether there was evidence of the immigrant paradox on internalizing mental health symptoms between first generation (n = 753) and second plus generation (n = 3042) 14/15 year old immigrant adolescents in England and b) whether differences (if any) were moderated by ethnicity group membership (Black African, Black Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Asian Other, White Immigrant). Findings demonstrate that overall first generation adolescent immigrants had statistically fewer internalizing symptoms as compared to second plus generation, and that this was especially true for Black African adolescents. Effect sizes measures however indicated that these differences were negligible. Implications for protective factors and future studies are briefly discussed.
了解英国移民青少年健康结果中的移民悖论，将极大地补充经济学家和跨学科领域在当地已开展的移民研究。本研究使用了2004 - 2010年英格兰年轻人纵向研究的首个数据库（N = 15770），以确定：a）在英格兰14/15岁的第一代（n = 753）和第二代及以上（n = 3042）移民青少年中，是否有证据表明在内化心理健康症状方面存在移民悖论；b）差异（若有）是否受种族群体成员身份（非洲黑人、加勒比黑人、印度人、巴基斯坦人、孟加拉国人、其他亚洲人、白人移民）的调节。研究结果表明，总体而言，与第二代及以上移民青少年相比，第一代移民青少年的内化症状在统计学上更少，非洲黑人青少年尤其如此。然而，效应量测量表明这些差异微不足道。本文简要讨论了保护因素及对未来研究的启示。
