Mental disorders and subsequent educational attainment in a US national sample

Breslau, Joshua; Lane, Michael; Sampson, Nancy A.; Kessler, Ronald C.

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2008.01.016

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“…All our ordered measures (psychological distress, life dissatisfaction and poor general health) are estimated using ordered logistic regressions while our dichotomous dependent variable (psychological anxiety) is estimated using a binary logistic model. In line with existing literature (Araya et al, 2001;Breslau et al, 2008;Lindstrom and Rosvall, 2012), all health equations include as controls a range of socio-demographic and job-related characteristics. We augment the model with our set of mutually exclusive binary indicators of employment transitions in order to permit the identification of any underlying differences in health status relative to Nevers.…”

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Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis

Dawson

Veliziotis

Pacheco

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Social Science & Medicine

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Section: Regression Resultsmentioning

confidence: 65%

Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis

Dawson

Veliziotis

Pacheco

et al. 2015

Social Science & Medicine

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“…17,29 Also supporting the hypothesis are results from studies in general samples that consistently show psychological adjustment to be an important predicting factor for academic competencies and performance, as well as for academic attainment. 30,31 Education and academic attainment is highly correlated with income and occupation and it is one of the most important predictors of health. 32 Thus, considering the importance of psychological adjustment and academic competencies for children's well-being and success in life, it remains critical to study and identify the risk and protective factors contributing to the associations observed between childhood obesity, psychological adjustment and academic competencies.…”

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Teasing and social rejection among obese children enrolling in family-based behavioural treatment: effects on psychological adjustment and academic competencies

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Objectives: The first objective was to determine the prevalence of psychological maladjustment (emotional and behavioural problems), low academic competencies and teasing/social rejection among obese Icelandic children enrolling in a family-based behavioural treatment. A second objective was to explore the degree to which teasing/social rejection specifically contributes to children's psychological adjustment and academic competencies when controlling for other variables, including demographics, children's physical activity, parental depression and life-stress. Methods: Participants were 84 obese children (mean body mass index-standard deviation score ¼ 3.11, age range ¼ 7.52-13.61 years). Height and weight, demographics and measures of children's psychological adjustment, academic competencies, teasing/social rejection and physical activity were collected from children, parents and teachers. Parental depression and life-stress was self-reported. Results: Over half the children exceeded cutoffs indicating concern on at least one measure of behavioural or emotional difficulties. Children endorsed significant levels of teasing/social rejection, with almost half acknowledging they were not popular with same-gender peers. Parent reports of peer problems were even higher, with over 90% of both boys and girls being rated by their parents as having significant peer difficulties. However, rates of low academic competencies as reported by teachers were not different from those of the general population. In regression analyses controlling for other variables, self-reported teasing/social rejection emerged as a significant contributor to explaining both child psychological adjustment and academic competencies. Conclusions:The results indicate that among obese children enrolled in family-based treatment, self-reported teasing/social rejection is quite high and it is associated with poorer psychological adjustment as well as lower academic competencies. Parent reports corroborate the presence of substantial peer difficulties, supporting the need to address peer relations with overweight children both in clinical practice and in public health interventions.

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“…Compared to other social scientific methods, controlled experimentation has a better chance of uncovering specific mechanisms that lead to disparities in mental health detection and service use, and thus, it can speed up scientific discovery. This is especially critical in relation to problems of ethnic minority youth and their families because children's development is rapid; mental health problems must be presented quickly to avoid permanent consequences (Pottick and Warner 2002;New Freedom Commission on Mental Health 2003;Breslau et al 2008). …”

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Conceptualizing Culturally Infused Engagement and Its Measurement for Ethnic Minority and Immigrant Children and Families

Yasui

Pottick

Chen

2017

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Despite the central role culture plays in racial and ethnic disparities in mental health among ethnic minority and immigrant children and families, existing measures of engagement in mental health services have failed to integrate culturally specific factors that shape these families' engagement with mental health services. To illustrate this gap, the authors systematically review 119 existing instruments that measure the multi-dimensional and developmental process of engagement for ethnic minority and immigrant children and families. The review is anchored in a new integrated conceptualization of engagement, the culturally infused engagement model. The review assesses culturally relevant cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral mechanisms of engagement from the stages of problem recognition and help seeking to treatment participation that can help illuminate the gaps. Existing measures examined four central domains pertinent to the process of engagement for ethnic minority and immigrant children and families: (a) expressions of mental distress and illness, (b) causal explanations of mental distress and illness, (c) beliefs about mental distress and illness, and (d) beliefs and experiences of seeking help. The findings highlight the variety of tools that are used to measure behavioral and attitudinal dimensions of engagement, showing the limitations of their application for ethnic minority and immigrant children and families. The review proposes directions for promising research methodologies to help intervention scientists and clinicians improve engagement and service delivery and reduce disparities among ethnic minority and immigrant children and families at large, and recommends practical applications for training, program planning, and policymaking.

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Mental disorders and subsequent educational attainment in a US national sample

Abstract: As part of a larger investigation of the

Cited by 430 publications

References 27 publications

Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis

Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis

Teasing and social rejection among obese children enrolling in family-based behavioural treatment: effects on psychological adjustment and academic competencies

Conceptualizing Culturally Infused Engagement and Its Measurement for Ethnic Minority and Immigrant Children and Families

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