Adverse intergenerational effects of ethnically-divisive social contexts on children's mental health: A prospective cohort study in the Netherlands

Farah Qureshi, Ivonne P.M. Derks, Michelle A. Williams, Karestan C. Koenen, Henning Tiemeier and Laura D. Kubzansky

Social Science & Medicine, 2021, vol. 277, issue C

Abstract: Around the world, international migration and growing economic inequality have contributed to heightened perceptions of intergroup threat (i.e., feeling that people outside of one's social group are hostile to their physical or emotional well-being). Exposures related to intergroup threat, like negative intergroup contact, are inherently stressful and may contribute to higher levels of psychological distress in the population. This longitudinal study investigated whether maternal experiences of negative intergroup contact are related to poor mental health outcomes among ethnically diverse children in The Netherlands.

Keywords: Social epidemiology; Discrimination; Intergroup threat; Intergroup contact; Child mental health; Child behavior checklist (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113932

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