The intersection of school racial composition and student race/ethnicity on adolescent depressive and somatic symptoms

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1873-1883

  Walsemann, Katrina M ^a   Bell, Bethany A ^a   Maitra, Debeshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Discrimination; Ethnicity; Mental health; School attachment; School segregation; School socio economic status; USA

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC CONFLICT; ETHNICITY; MENTAL HEALTH; RACIAL DISPARITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; DEPRESSION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SCHOOL ATTACHMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DEPRESSION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958763365     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.033     Document Type: Article

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