{"id":57143,"date":"2018-12-26T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T17:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57143"},"modified":"2018-12-26T23:09:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T23:09:28","slug":"socioemotional-wellbeing-of-mixed-race-ethnicity-children-in-the-uk-and-us-patterns-and-mechanisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57143","title":{"rendered":"Socioemotional wellbeing of mixed race\/ethnicity children in the UK and US: Patterns and mechanisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ssmph.2018.06.010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Socioemotional wellbeing of mixed race\/ethnicity children in the UK and US: Patterns and mechanisms<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/23528273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SSM &#8211; Population Health<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/23528273\/5\/supp\/C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 5, August 2018<\/a><br \/>\nPages 147-159<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ssmph.2018.06.010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1016\/j.ssmph.2018.06.010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Nazroo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>James Nazroo<\/strong><\/a>, Honorary Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Cathie Marsh Institute, University of Manchester, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iris.ucl.ac.uk\/iris\/browse\/profile?upi=AZILA65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Afshin Zilanawala<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Research Associate<br \/>\n<em>University College London, London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.src.isr.umich.edu\/people\/meichu-chen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Meichu Chen<\/strong><\/a>, Research Associate Social\/Behavioral Sciences Intermediate<br \/>\n<em>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/profiles\/448650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Laia B\u00e9cares<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science (Social Work and Social Care)<br \/>\n<em>University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/psych\/people\/faculty\/pdakean.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pamela Davis-Kean<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Psychology; Research Professor<br \/>\n<em>Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/psych\/people\/faculty\/jamessj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>James S. Jackson<\/strong><\/a>, Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology; Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education<br \/>\n<em>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iris.ucl.ac.uk\/iris\/browse\/profile?upi=YKELL78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Yvonne Kelly<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Lifecourse Epidemiology<br \/>\n<em>University College London, London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lidia_Panico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Lidia Panico<\/strong><\/a>, Researcher<br \/>\n<em>Institut National d\u2019Etudes Demographiques, Paris, France<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Amanda_Sacker2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amanda Sacker<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Lifecourse Studies<br \/>\n<em>University College London, London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ssmph.2018.06.010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover-image-large cover-image js-cover-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ars.els-cdn.com\/content\/image\/X23528273.jpg\" alt=\"Cover image SSM - Population Health\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mixed race\/ethnicity children are thought to have poorer socioemotional wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>We find no evidence that mixed race\/ethnicity children have poorer socioemotional wellbeing in a study covering children aged 5\/6 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We find that mixed race\/ethnicity children do have socio-economic advantage<\/li>\n<li>This socio-economic advantage is protective for socioemotional wellbeing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Existing literature suggests that mixed race\/ethnicity children are more likely to experience poor socioemotional wellbeing in both the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK<\/a>, although the evidence is stronger in the US. It is suggested that this inequality may be a consequence of struggles with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/social-sciences\/identity-formation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identity formation<\/a>, more limited connections with racial\/ethnic\/cultural heritage, and increased risk of exposure to racism.<\/p>\n<p>Using data from the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/cls.ucl.ac.uk\/cls-studies\/millennium-cohort-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Millennium Cohort Study<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sample_(statistics)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>n<\/em><\/a> = 13,734) and the US <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/ecls\/birth.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort<\/a> (<em>n<\/em> ~ 6250), we examine differences in the socioemotional wellbeing of mixed and non-mixed 5\/6 year old children in the UK and US and explore <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homogeneity_and_heterogeneity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heterogeneity<\/a> in outcomes across different mixed groups in both locations. We estimate a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linear_regression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linear regressions<\/a> to examine the contribution of factors that may explain any observed differences, including socio-economic and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/social-sciences\/cultural-factors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cultural factors<\/a>, and examine the extent to which these processes vary across the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>We find no evidence of greater risk for poor socioemotional wellbeing for mixed race\/ethnicity children in both national contexts. We find that mixed race\/ethnicity children experience socio-economic advantage compared to their non-mixed minority counterparts and that socio-economic advantage is protective for socioemotional wellbeing. Cultural factors do not contribute to differences in socioemotional wellbeing across mixed and non-mixed groups.<\/p>\n<p>Our evidence suggests then that at age 5\/6 there is no evidence of poorer socioemotional wellbeing for mixed race\/ethnicity children in either the UK or the US. The contrast between our findings and some previous literature, which reports that mixed race\/ethnicity children have poorer socioemotional wellbeing, may reflect changes in the meaning of mixed identities across periods and\/or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/social-sciences\/developmental-stages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">developmental stage<\/a> of the children we studied.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2352827317302586\/pdfft?md5=44126720658f49a3b32222dbf3f5dc1d&amp;pid=1-s2.0-S2352827317302586-main.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ssmph.2018.06.010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HTML<\/a> format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our evidence suggests then that at age 5\/6 there is no evidence of poorer socioemotional wellbeing for mixed race\/ethnicity children in either the UK or the US. The contrast between our findings and some previous literature, which reports that mixed race\/ethnicity children have poorer socioemotional wellbeing, may reflect changes in the meaning of mixed identities across periods and\/or the developmental stage of the children we studied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,10,20],"tags":[29161,29166,29168,26762,5835,2890,29163,5836,29162,29167,29164,29160,29165],"class_list":["post-57143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","category-usa","tag-afshin-zilanawala","tag-amanda-sacker","tag-early-childhood-longitudinal-study-birth-cohort","tag-james-jackson","tag-james-nazroo","tag-james-s-jackson","tag-laia-becares","tag-lidia-panico","tag-meichu-chen","tag-millennium-cohort-study","tag-pamela-davis-kean","tag-ssm-population-health","tag-yvonne-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57143","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=57143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57157,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57143\/revisions\/57157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}