{"id":25120,"date":"2012-08-31T23:02:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T23:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25120"},"modified":"2012-09-01T02:00:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T02:00:02","slug":"%e2%80%9cwhat-about-the-children%e2%80%9d-the-psychological-and-social-well-being-of-multiracial-adolescents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25120","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat About the Children?\u201d The Psychological and Social Well-Being of Multiracial Adolescents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1533-8525.2006.00041.x\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWhat About the Children?\u201d The Psychological and Social Well-Being of Multiracial Adolescents<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1533-8525\" target=\"_blank\">The Sociological Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/tsq.2006.47.issue-1\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 47, Issue 1<\/a> (February 2006)<br \/>\npages 147\u2013173<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1533-8525.2006.00041.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1533-8525.2006.00041.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/clas.uiowa.edu\/sociology\/people\/mary-e-campbell\" target=\"_blank\">Mary E. Campbell<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Iowa<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:jeggerling@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We used the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Longitudinal_Study_of_Adolescent_Health\" target=\"_blank\">National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health<\/a> (Add Health) to examine the social and psychological well-being of multiracial adolescents. Using two different measures of multiracial identity, we investigated the ways in which these adolescents compare to their monoracial counterparts on five outcomes: depression, seriously considering suicide, feeling socially accepted, feeling close to others at school, and participating in extracurricular activities. We found that multiracial adolescents as a group experience some negative outcomes compared to white adolescents, but that this finding is driven by negative outcomes for those with American Indian and white heritage. <strong>We found no consistent evidence, however, that multiracial adolescents as a group face more difficulty in adolescence than members of other racial and ethnic minority groups.<\/strong> The results were similar, whether the multiracial population is defined by self-identification or by their parents\u2019 racial identifications.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1533-8525.2006.00041.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat About the Children?\u201d The Psychological and Social Well-Being of Multiracial Adolescents The Sociological Quarterly Volume 47, Issue 1 (February 2006) pages 147\u2013173 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1533-8525.2006.00041.x Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison We used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[11711,2830,1724,1835,11710],"class_list":["post-25120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jennifer-eggerling-boeck","tag-mary-campbell","tag-mary-e-campbell","tag-sociological-quarterly","tag-the-sociological-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}