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Amell, James W.

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An examination of mental health and mental health trajectories among African American and white men: The effects of poverty and perceived social supports on psychological distress, self-esteem, and life satisfaction.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An examination of mental health and mental health trajectories among African American and white men: The effects of poverty and perceived social supports on psychological distress, self-esteem, and life satisfaction./
Author:	Amell, James W.
Description:	205 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Stephanie A. Robert.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3234722
ISBN:	9780542880070

An examination of mental health and mental health trajectories among African American and white men: The effects of poverty and perceived social supports on psychological distress, self-esteem, and life satisfaction.
Amell, James W.

An examination of mental health and mental health trajectories among African American and white men: The effects of poverty and perceived social supports on psychological distress, self-esteem, and life satisfaction. - 205 p.

Adviser: Stephanie A. Robert.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2006.

Research has consistently demonstrated a positive association between poverty and negative mental health, as well as social support and positive mental health among men. The empirical relationship between race and mental health among men has been less consistent. Studies of the effects of social support on mental health suggest that social support may both mediate and moderate associations between race as well as poverty and mental health. Applying both stress and coping theory and resilience theory, this study examined the effects of race, poverty, and perceived social supports on mental health trajectories among African American and White men. This study also investigated the effects of social support on mental health and changes in mental health among a sub-sample of poor men. Using three waves of data from the Americans' Changing Lives Survey, this study applied growth curve modeling to examine mental health trajectories among African American and White men. Changes in mental health between waves one and three were investigated among the sub-sample of poor men. Results revealed that African American men had more psychological distress at baseline and over time than White men. African American men had less life satisfaction but more self-esteem than White men at baseline. Poverty was associated with less self-esteem and life satisfaction among men at baseline. Poverty was also associated with more psychological distress at baseline but, unexpectedly, was associated with a decrease in psychological distress over time. Men with more social support had less psychological distress and more self-esteem and life satisfaction at baseline. Unexpectedly, men who reported more social support at baseline experienced greater declines in mental health. Results showed no mediating effects of perceived social support on the relationships between both race and poverty with mental health. However, perceived social support was found to moderate the association between poverty and baseline psychological distress among men. Finally, among poor men, high levels of social support were associated with less psychological distress, more self-esteem, and more life satisfaction. Poor men who reported having more social support at baseline also had decreases in psychological distress and increases in life satisfaction over time.

ISBN: 9780542880070Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

An examination of mental health and mental health trajectories among African American and white men: The effects of poverty and perceived social supports on psychological distress, self-esteem, and life satisfaction.
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