Perceived Social Status and Mental Health among Young Adolescents: Evidence from Census Data to Cellphones

Autor/inn/en	Rivenbark, Joshua G.; Copeland, William E.; Davisson, Erin K.; Gassman-Pines, Anna; Hoyle, Rick H.; Piontak, Joy R.; Russell, Michael A.; Skinner, Ann T.; Odgers, Candice L.
Titel	Perceived Social Status and Mental Health among Young Adolescents: Evidence from Census Data to Cellphones
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 55 (2019) 3, S.574-585 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000551
Schlagwörter	Social Status; Mental Health; Early Adolescents; Evidence; Census Figures; Handheld Devices; Telecommunications; Poverty; Low Income Groups; Equal Education; Adolescent Attitudes; Public Schools; Behavior Problems; Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7; Grade 8; Mental Disorders; North Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Status; Psychohygiene; Evidenz; Volkszählung; Telekommunikationstechnik; Armut; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit
Abstract	Adolescents in the United States live amid high levels of concentrated poverty and increasing income inequality. Poverty is robustly linked to adolescents' mental health problems; however, less is known about how perceptions of their social status and exposure to local area income inequality relate to mental health. Participants consisted of a population-representative sample of over 2,100 adolescents (ages 10-16), 395 of whom completed a 14-day ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study. Participants' subjective social status (SSS) was assessed at the start of the EMA, and mental health symptoms were measured both at baseline for the entire sample and daily in the EMA sample. Adolescents' SSS tracked family, school, and neighborhood economic indicators (\|r\| ranging from 0.12 to 0.30), and associations did not differ by age, race, or gender. SSS was independently associated with mental health, with stronger associations among older (ages 14-16) versus younger (ages 10-13) adolescents. Adolescents with lower SSS reported higher psychological distress and inattention problems, as well as more conduct problems, in daily life. Those living in areas with higher income inequality reported significantly lower subjective social status, but this association was explained by family and neighborhood income. Findings illustrate that adolescents' SSS is correlated with both internalizing and externalizing mental health problems, and that by age 14 it becomes a unique predictor of mental health problems. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01