Structural racism in school contexts and adolescent depression: Development of new indices for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and beyond.

ABSTRACT: Racial discrimination is an important predictor of racial inequities in mental and physical health. Scholars have made progress conceptualizing and measuring structural forms of racism, yet, little work has focused on measuring structural racism in social contexts, which are especially relevant for studying the life course consequences of racism for health. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we take a biosocial, life course approach and develop two life stage-specific indices measuring manifestations of structural racism in school contexts in adolescence, a sensitive period of development. The first is a school contextual disadvantage index (CDI), which captures differences in resources and opportunities across schools that have been partly determined by s

SUBMITTER: Polos JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9530614 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature