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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2014
      August 2005
      ISBN:
      9781139140348
      9780521849937
      9780521615105
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139140348
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 398 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.535kg, 398 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychology
      Series:
      The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence
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    Subjects:
    Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychology
    Series:
    The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence
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    Research clearly indicates that ethnic groups differ significantly on levels of mental and physical health, antisocial behavior, and educational attainment. This book explains these variations among ethnic groups with respect to their psychological and social functioning and tests competing hypotheses about the mechanisms that might cause the functioning to be better, worse, or different in pattern from other groups. Attention is paid to educational attainments, antisocial behavior, schizophrenia and suicide, and to the complex and changing patterns of ethnic identity. The book also focuses on evidence on risk and protective factors that is used systematically to ask whether such factors might account for the differences in both migration histories and ethnic mixture. It concludes with a discussion of the multiple meanings of ethnicity, the major variations among ethnic groups, and the policy implications of the findings discussed in the book.

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    'This fascinating book is concerned with the ways in which ethnicity may have a causal role in young people's adjustment … multidisciplinary perspectives in the book are reflected in the editors' expertise … interesting contributions from UK experts … anybody who is curious about human adjustment will find this a very illuminating and interesting book. It deserves to be widely read. The book sets the standard for future studies related to ethnicity, as well as giving ideas for what might be investigated in further work.'

    Source: Primary Care & Community Psychiatry

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