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Social integration and mental health in a biracial community
Author(s) -
Holahan Charles J.,
Betak John F.,
Spearly James L.,
Chance Barbara J.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00893370
Subject(s) - social integration , prejudice (legal term) , mental health , health psychology , psychology , social environment , race (biology) , context (archaeology) , community integration , social psychology , white (mutation) , social relation , racial integration , public health , sociology , gender studies , medicine , psychiatry , social science , nursing , geography , biochemistry , physical therapy , chemistry , archaeology , anthropology , gene
The study investigated the relationship between social integration and mental health, with a particular interest in social integration in a minority group context. The study involved a home interview with 33 white and 30 black women who resided in a residentially integrated working-class community in Austin, Texas. Although blacks reported significantly more psychological symptoms than whites, the race effect was explained by an underlying interaction between race and social integration. Blacks low in social integration showed more symptoms than either white respondents or blacks with a high level of integration. The Race X Social integration interaction is considered in the light of societally based prejudice and the potential social stress associated with minority group status.