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- Title
Intergenerational Mobility and Goal-Striving Stress Among Black Americans: The Roles of Ethnicity and Nativity Status.
- Authors
Mouzon, Dawne M.; Watkins, Daphne C.; Perry, Ramona; Simpson, Theresa M.; Mitchell, Jamie A.
- Abstract
Goal-striving stress refers to the psychological consequences of seeking but failing to reach upward mobility and is more common among low-income and people of color. Intergenerational mobility—or improved socioeconomic standing relative to one's parents—may be an important predictor of goal-striving stress for Blacks. We used the National Survey of American Life to investigate the association between intergenerational mobility and goal-striving stress among U.S.-born African Americans, U.S.-born Caribbean Blacks, and foreign-born Caribbean Blacks. Intergenerational mobility was associated with lower goal-striving stress and U.S.-born African Americans and Caribbean Blacks reported lower goal-striving stress than foreign-born Caribbean Blacks. Goal-striving stress was relatively high among foreign-born Blacks, regardless of level of intergenerational mobility attained. Goal-striving is an important stressor for foreign-born Caribbean Blacks, regardless of their level of educational success. Given increasing Black migration, future studies should disaggregate the Black racial category based on ethnicity and nativity.
- Subjects
UNITED States; IMMIGRANTS; BIRTHPLACES; CONCEPTUAL structures; ETHNIC groups; GOAL (Psychology); REGRESSION analysis; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SOCIAL mobility; STATISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL variables; PSYCHOLOGY of Black people; SAMPLE size (Statistics); SOCIOECONOMIC factors; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health, 2019, Vol 21, Issue 2, p393
- ISSN
1557-1912
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10903-018-0735-4