Racial diversity, interracial trust, and mental distress in post-apartheid South Africa

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作者
Koomson, Isaac [1 ,2 ]
Adonteng-Kissi, Obed [3 ]
Ayentimi, Desmond Tutu [4 ]
Osuagwu, Uchechukwu Levi [5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Queensland, Ctr Business & Econ Hlth, St Lucia, Australia
[2] Network Socioecon Res & Advancement NESRA, Accra, Ghana
[3] Edith Cowan Univ, Sch Arts & Humanities, Social Sci Social Work & Youth Work, Bunbury, Australia
[4] Univ Tasmania, Tasmanian Sch Business & Econ, Hobart, Australia
[5] Western Sydney Univ, Bathurst Rural Clin Sch, Sch Med, Bathurst, Australia
[6] Univ KwaZulu Natal, African Vis Res Inst AVRI, Discipline Optometry, Durban, South Africa
关键词
Racial diversity; mental health; gender; rural; Africa; ETHNIC DIVERSITY; HEALTH; RACE; ENVIRONMENT; IMMIGRATION;
D O I
10.1080/13557858.2024.2429411
中图分类号
C95 [民族学、文化人类学];
学科分类号
0304 ; 030401 ;
摘要
The emerging difficulties and tensions in establishing inclusive and multicultural societies in the contemporary globalised world have necessitated the generation of ample empirical evidence in support of the socioeconomic and health benefits of racial diversity. This study contributes to the scholarly and policy discourses by examining the effect of racial diversity on mental distress in post-apartheid South Africa after several decades of racial segregation. We used all five waves (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2017) of the National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS). After addressing the endogeneity problem in the racial diversity-mental distress nexus, our findings show that an increase in racial diversity is associated with a decrease in mental distress across the 52 districts of South Africa. This finding is consistently established when different quasi-experimental methods and alternative conceptualisations of racial diversity are employed to generate the results. We also found that racial diversity decreases mental distress more among females and urban residents. Further analyses revealed that interracial trust serves as a potential pathway through which racial diversity transmits to mental distress. We argue that people living in highly racially diverse neighbourhoods have the potential to experience a decrease in their mental distress through improved interracial trust.
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页码:215 / 231
页数:17
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