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Health and Behavior Risks of Adolescents with Mixed-Race Identity

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  • Udry, J.R.
  • Li, R.M.
  • Hendrickson-Smith, J.

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Objectives. This study compared the health and risk status of adolescents who identify with 1 race with those identifying with more than 1 race. Methods. Data are derived from self-reports of race, using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), which provides a large representative national sample of adolescents in grades 7 through 12. Respondents could report more than 1 race. Results. Mixed-race adolescents showed higher risk when compared with single-race adolescents on general health questions, school experience, smoking and drinking, and other risk variables. Conclusions. Adolescents who self-identify as more than 1 race are at higher health and behavior risks. The findings are compatible with interpreting the elevated risk of mixed race as associated with stress.

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  • Udry, J.R. & Li, R.M. & Hendrickson-Smith, J., 2003. "Health and Behavior Risks of Adolescents with Mixed-Race Identity," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 93(11), pages 1865-1870.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:2003:93:11:1865-1870_6
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    1. Xing Zhang & Daniel B. Lee, 2023. "School Prejudice and Substance Use from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood in the United States: Variation across Race and Ethnicity," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(5), pages 1-12, February.
    2. Xing Zhang & Annaliese Grant, 2023. "Parent–Child Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood: An Examination of Children’s and Parent’s Reports of Intergenerational Solidarity by Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status from 19," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(5), pages 1-19, April.
    3. Samson, Frank L., 2015. "Racial resentment and smoking," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 126(C), pages 164-168.
    4. Melissa Herman, 2022. "Doctors’ Perceptions of Multiracial Adolescents," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-19, March.
    5. Wei Zhang, 2013. "Health Disparities and Relational Well-Being between Multi- and Mono-Ethnic Asian Americans," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 110(2), pages 735-750, January.
    6. Jenifer Bratter & Bridget Gorman, 2011. "Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 48(1), pages 127-152, February.

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