Race, Ethnicity and the Quality of Life in America, 1972-2008

Autor/inn/en	Coverdill, James E.; Lopez, Carlos A.; Petrie, Michelle A.
Titel	Race, Ethnicity and the Quality of Life in America, 1972-2008
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 89 (2011) 3, S.783-805 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
Schlagwörter	Health; Quality of Life; Marriage Counseling; Psychological Patterns; Race; Ethnicity; Surveys; Hispanic Americans; Trust (Psychology); Mexican Americans; Measures (Individuals); Family Financial Resources; Whites; African Americans; General Social Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheit; Lebensqualität; Eheberatung; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnizität; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Messdaten; White; Weißer; Afroamerikaner
Abstract	We extend research on black-white gaps in the subjective quality of life by exploring recent General Social Survey data, focusing attention on Latinos, and probing the value of partial proportional odds models for ordinal quality-of-life measures. Results indicate a declining but discernable black-white gap for four measures--marital happiness, overall happiness, health status and trust--and the persistence of a gap for another--satisfaction with finances. Although Latinos as a whole have a lower quality of life than non-Latinos, significant differences between Mexican-origin Latinos and those from other countries emerge for only two quality-of-life measures, overall happiness and financial satisfaction. The partial proportional odds models overcome technical problems common to the analysis of ordinal dependent variables and establish both the magnitude and location of inequalities. (Contains 5 tables and 9 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10