{"id":48596,"date":"2016-08-07T23:49:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T23:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48596"},"modified":"2016-08-07T23:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T23:49:01","slug":"inconsistency-within-expressed-and-observed-racial-identifications-implications-for-mental-health-status-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48596","title":{"rendered":"Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0731121415602133\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spx.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sociological Perspectives<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spx.sagepub.com\/content\/59\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 59, Number 3<\/a> (September 2016)<br \/>\npages 582-603<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0731121415602133\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0731121415602133<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whitneylpirtle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Whitney N. Laster Pirtle<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Merced<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/bio\/tony-brown\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tony N. Brown<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The present study extends previous work on distress that arises from discrepancy <em>between<\/em> self and interviewer racial identifications. Using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpc.unc.edu\/projects\/addhealth\" target=\"_blank\">National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health<\/a> (Add Health) data, we examine mental health consequences of inconsistency over time <em>within<\/em> expressed (self) and observed (interviewer) racial identifications among American Indians. Given that phenotype signals race, we also contribute to prior research by examining whether skin color moderates inconsistency\u2019s mental health consequences. Analyses show that observed racial inconsistency increased American Indians\u2019 depressive symptoms and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suicidal_ideation\" target=\"_blank\">suicidal ideation<\/a>. That is, when interviewers labeled a respondent \u201cAmerican Indian\u201d at one wave of data but not another, there were deleterious implications for mental health status. In addition, an interaction between observed inconsistency and skin color demonstrated that observed inconsistency tended to be harmful when respondents were observed as having light skin. We argue observed inconsistency captures the distressing experience of being not readily classifiable.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/spx.sagepub.com\/content\/59\/3\/582.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status Sociological Perspectives Volume 59, Number 3 (September 2016) pages 582-603 DOI: 10.1177\/0731121415602133 Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Tony N. Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee The present study extends previous work on distress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,3015,394],"tags":[3133,20862,20859,24723,20860],"class_list":["post-48596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-socialscience","tag-sociological-perspectives","tag-tony-brown","tag-tony-n-brown","tag-whitney-laster-pirtle","tag-whitney-n-laster-pirtle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48596","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=48596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48597,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48596\/revisions\/48597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}