Mental Health in Adolescents with a Migration Background in 29 European Countries: The Buffering Role of Social Capital
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F21%3A73609925" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/21:73609925 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10964-021-01423-1" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10964-021-01423-1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01423-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10964-021-01423-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Mental Health in Adolescents with a Migration Background in 29 European Countries: The Buffering Role of Social Capital
Original language description
Previous research is inconclusive as to whether having an immigration background acts as a risk factor for poor mental health in adolescents, and furthermore, what contribution the social context in which adolescents grow up may make. To address these questions, the current study uses an integrative resilience framework to investigate the association between immigration background and adolescent mental health, and the moderating role of social capital at the individual, the school, and the national level. The study uses data gathered from nationally representative samples of adolescents aged 11, 13, and 15 years (N-girls = 63,425 (52.1%); M-age = 13.57, SD = 1.64) from 29 countries participating in the 2017/18 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Data analysis reveals that first- and second-generation immigrants reported higher levels of life dissatisfaction and psychosomatic symptoms than their native peers, and that this association varied across schools and countries. In addition, social capital was found to moderate the association between immigration background and adolescent mental health. Individual-level social support from peers and family and national-level trust protected against poor mental health in adolescents with an immigration background, while the opposite was true for individual-level teacher support. Supportive teacher-student relationships were found to provide more protection against poor mental health for native adolescents than for immigrant adolescents. Our findings indicate the importance of taking an ecological approach to design interventions to reduce the negative effects of having an immigration background on adolescent mental health.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
JOURNAL OF YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE
ISSN
0047-2891
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
50
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
855-871
UT code for WoS article
000635505000002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85103389520