Status and the Psyche: How Mental Health Paradoxes Challenge Theories of Inequality- [electronic resource]
Status and the Psyche: How Mental Health Paradoxes Challenge Theories of Inequality- [electronic resource]
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- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214101515
- ISBN
- 9798379962098
- DDC
- 301
- 서명/저자
- Status and the Psyche: How Mental Health Paradoxes Challenge Theories of Inequality - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : Indiana University., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(302 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Perry, Brea L. .
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2023.
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- 초록/해제
- 요약Social scientists have documented a set of unexpected sociodemographic patterns they call health paradoxes or epidemiological paradoxes. Like all paradoxes, such findings compel scholars to reconsider their assumptions about the social world-findings are only "paradoxical" when viewed from a certain perspective. This dissertation centers on mental health paradoxes, cases in which persons deemed low-status (less educated individuals, racial minorities, immigrants) report better mental health despite greater marginalization. I examine three paradoxes: (1) elevated rates of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB) in socioeconomically advantaged college students, (2) greater risk of psychiatric disorders in White vs. Black Americans (the Black-White mental health paradox), and (3) higher rates of mental health problems among the native-born (the healthy immigrant paradox). For each paradox, I test a range of potential mechanisms including social support, stressors, and identity measures. I leverage data from two national studies: the Healthy Minds Study (HMS) of college and university students (2009-2019) and the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III (NESARC-III, 2012-2013). Findings challenge the distributive paradigm inherent in dominant approaches such as the stress process model and fundamental cause theory, both of which are limited by a similar focus on material and psychosocial "resources." Taken together, my results highlight the resilience of groups deemed low-status and suggest that structural and cultural arrangements imposed by high-status groups (including an individualist focus on success and self-advancement) may harm well-being.
- 일반주제명
- Sociology.
- 일반주제명
- Mental health.
- 일반주제명
- Social psychology.
- 키워드
- Stress process
- 키워드
- Suicide
- 키워드
- Paradoxes
- 기타저자
- Indiana University Sociology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-02B.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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