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The relationship of skin tone to physical and mental health outcomes in South Asian Americans

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The relationship of skin tone to physical and mental health outcomes in South Asian Americans
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Bhagwat
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Ranjit
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1981-
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Ranjit Bhagwat
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Kelly
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Shalonda
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Shalonda Kelly
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chair
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Sanchez
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Diana T
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Diana T Sanchez
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Woolfolk
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Robert L
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Robert L Woolfolk
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Okazaki
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Sumie
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Sumie Okazaki
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2012
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2012-10
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eng
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Since 1990, the South Asian population in America has exhibited massive growth, as large numbers of immigrants from India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries have arrived in the United States. Yet limited empirical psychological research has been conducted assessing race-related stressors in this population. Skin tone (skin color) has been linked frequently with physical and mental health outcomes in other American ethnic minority populations, such that dark skin tone typically correlates with poor outcomes. The present study demonstrated, in a relatively large sample of South Asian Americans, that darkness of skin tone negatively predicted self-esteem and self-rated physical health. Contrary to expectations, dark skin tone positively predicted general mental health. The study also investigates the mediation role of perceived discrimination and body image disturbance in these relationships, as well as the moderating roles of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnic identification. The relationship of dark skin tone to low self-esteem, but not low self-rated physical health or high general mental health, was mediated via increased body image disturbance. Ethnic identification moderated the positive association between dark skin tone and general mental health, such that this association was strong at low levels of ethnic identification and reversed for individuals of high ethnic identification. Neither gender nor ethnic identification moderated the negative associations between dark skin tone and low self-rated physical health or low self-esteem. Implications and recommendations are discussed.
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Psychology
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vii, 73 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Ranjit Bhagwat
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South Asian Americans--Mental health
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Human skin color--Social aspects
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Self-esteem
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3TX3D56
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Bhagwat
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Ranjit
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2012-06-19 16:05:15
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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