The missing link in contemporary health disparities research: a profile of the mental and self-rated health of multiracial young adults

Miller, Byron; Rocks, Sara; Catalina, Savanah; Zemaitis, Nicole; Daniels, Kia; Londono, Jaime

doi:10.1080/14461242.2019.1607524

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“…Specific multiracial identities are rarely examined in relation to health largely because of the complexity of categorizing and analyzing multiracial identity (Parker et al, 2015; Pauker et al, 2018). Miller and colleagues’ (2019) examined young adults in the US and found multiracial individuals had poorer mental health than monoracial, but also found that White-Nonwhite multiracial individuals had poorer mental and self-rated health relative to monoracial individuals generally (and Whites specifically), and that NonWhite–NonWhite multiracial individuals had greater self-esteem and self-rated health than Whites as well as the aggregated monoracial group. Interestingly, Tabb and colleagues (2019) found no significant differences in self-rated health status of multiracial adults in the US when compared with monoracial White adults, but did find variation by multiracial subgroups, namely that Asian-White multiracial adults reported better health than monoracial Asian and monoracial White adults.…”

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Mental health differences between multiracial and monoracial college students in the United States: Emerging racial disparities

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et al. 2022

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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Background: Multiracial individuals appear to be at higher risk for mental health problems; however, more research is needed to confirm these racial disparities among young adult college populations. Methods: We analyzed data from the Health Minds Study ( N = 99728 young adult college students aged 18–34), collected online across 140 college campuses from September 2020 to June 2021. We used multivariable logistic regression to examine associations between multiracial identity and several mental health outcomes, including mental and behavioral health (depression, anxiety, languishing, perceived need, loneliness), self-injurious behaviors (non-suicidal self-injury, suicidal ideation, suicide plan, suicide attempt), and history of lifetime psychiatric disorders, adjusting for age and gender. Results: Almost a tenth of the weighted sample were multiracial. Multiracial students had greater odds of all mental and behavioral health outcomes, self-injurious behaviors (though only marginally significant for suicide attempt), and most lifetime psychiatric disorders. Conclusion: Multiracial young adult college students were more likely to have mental health problems than their monoracial counterparts, calling for targeted preventive interventions on college campuses to address these mental health disparities.

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Mental health differences between multiracial and monoracial college students in the United States: Emerging racial disparities

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Int J Soc Psychiatry

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“…While this process may be easier in recent years as multiracial identities are indeed more visible and institutionalized than they once were (Davenport, 2016), multiracial adolescents continue to confront challenges around taking on identities that outsiders often do not validate or deem authentic (Campion, 2019). Such experiences are often associated with difficulties in social adjustment and maintaining mental health (Miller et al, 2019). Moreover, such experiences may be even more challenging as multiracial families can be less connected to support networks of extended family or friends (Bratter & Whitehead, 2018) which can exacerbate challenges of parenting for those on the economic fringes (Fusco & Rautkis, 2012).…”

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“…Moreover, the deleterious consequences of poverty as well as other resource gaps shape development across the life course. Multiracial children, meanwhile, face a range of unique concerns of bridging racial communities (Miller et al, 2019) some of which are likely linked to structural concerns of the presence or absence of a range of resources (Fusco & Rautkis, 2012). From a demographic standpoint, we know very little about how frequently multiracial youth are reared in families that are non-marital.…”

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Counting Families, Counting Race: Assessing Visible Family Structural Change among Multiracial Families, 1980–2018

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Racially mixed children are a rapidly expanding segment of American families, signaling the ongoing blurring of racial boundaries. Most of what is known about multiraciality is drawn from analyses of two-parent families even as marriage became decreasingly tied to childbearing. The current study tracked the prevalence and racial composition of multiracial families where parents are married and unmarried from 1980 until 2018 using data from the U.S. Census and American Community Survey. We find that multiracial families are increasingly common amongst married and unmarried parents with the greatest growth occurring among White unmarried mothers, nearly 15% of whom have multiracial children as of 2018. Additionally, we find that Asian-White and Hispanic-White children are more likely to live in married families while Black-White and dual minority children are disproportionately represented amongst single-parent families. Ultimately, capturing the complexity of racialized contexts where multiracial children are found, as well as how the prevalence of these contexts has changed over time, requires accounting for family structure differences. Highlights •Multiracial families with children are rapidly growing, but this is largely tracked solely among married households.• Using 1980-2018 U.S. Census and American Community Survey data, we find growing married and unmarried multiracial families.• Unmarried families are increasingly multiracial, most often composed of Black-White children with White mothers.• Meanwhile, Hispanic-White and Asian-White children are more common among married families. •The lives of multiracial children will be increasingly shaped by different racialized and gendered family contexts.

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“…Identity aside, scholars have compared monoracials to multiracials in terms of their educational attainment and income (Alba, 2020; Hochschild et al, 2012; Masuoka, 2017), social networks and patterns of segregation from Whites (Alba et al, 2018; Bennett, 2011), rates of poverty and inequality (Bratter, 2018), and mental and physical well‐being (Bratter & Gorman, 2011; Bratter & Mason, 2016, Does et al, 2021; Miller et al, 2019). A general pattern emerges among these studies in that Black‐White biracials seem to more closely resemble Blacks, while Latino‐Whites and Asian‐Whites can be more similar to Whites.…”

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The Heaviest Drop of Blood: Black Exceptionalism Among Multiracials

Leslie

Sears

2022

Political Psychology

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We leverage the emerging multiracial population to reexamine prominent theories of the American color line. A Black exceptionalism hypothesis suggests that Black heritage will be more restrictive of biracials' social and political assimilation prospects than Asian or Latino heritage. Black exceptionalism better explains biracials' sorting into the racial hierarchy than does classic assimilation theory or a people‐of‐color hypothesis. In the American Community Survey, Black heritage dominates subjective racial self‐identification among biracial adults and identity assignments to children of interracial marriages. In the 2015 Pew Survey of Multiracials, Black‐White biracials' social identity, social networks, perceptions and experiences of discrimination, and political attitudes relevant to race resemble those of monoracial Blacks, whereas Latino‐Whites and Asian‐Whites are more similar to monoracial Whites than to their minority‐group counterparts. Results suggest that even in a more racially mixed future, Black Americans will continue to be uniquely situated behind a most impermeable color line.

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The missing link in contemporary health disparities research: a profile of the mental and self-rated health of multiracial young adults

Cited by 16 publications

References 52 publications

Mental health differences between multiracial and monoracial college students in the United States: Emerging racial disparities

Mental health differences between multiracial and monoracial college students in the United States: Emerging racial disparities

Counting Families, Counting Race: Assessing Visible Family Structural Change among Multiracial Families, 1980–2018

The Heaviest Drop of Blood: Black Exceptionalism Among Multiracials

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