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Minority status, ethnic culture, and distress: a comparison of Blacks, Whites, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans.
John Mirowsky,Catherine E. Ross +1 more
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The authors examined the psychological well-being of black, whites, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans and found that Mexican heritage is associated with lower distress, while the impact of social stressors is not as great among persons of Mexican heritage as among others.Abstract:
We examine the psychological well-being of blacks, whites, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans. There are two perspectives on the differences in distress among these groups: the minority-status perspective and the ethnic-culture perspective. Within the context of the minority status perspective, two hypotheses are tested: (1) Minority status per se is distressing. (2) Minority status is distressing only because it is associated with low social class. Within the ethnic-culture perspective, a number of additional hypotheses are tested: (3) Mexican heritage is associated with lower distress (4) because the impact of social stressors is not as great among persons of Mexican heritage as among others. However, (5) Mexicans living in the United States but not raised here suffer distress due to cultural alienation. Within the minority-status perspective, hypothesis 1 is rejected. Hypothesis 2 is supported with the qualification that, although both the black and Mexican minorities are distressed by low income, only bl...read more
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Minority stress and mental health in gay men
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