This indicates that school hassles may play a role in the higher levels of emotional problems in preadolescent minority boys and consequently the absence of a gender gap found in our minority sample.
It is a pervasive set of problems in some minority communities, including fatherless households, teenage dropout mothers, drugs and a culture that disparages education, along with some incredibly poor teaching.
In a systematic review on measurement properties of instruments measuring externalizing problems in ethnic minority youth, good internal consistency, content, structural and concurrent validity were found for the SDQ self-report version.
It synthesises evidence from population- and clinic-based studies in Britain published over the last 40 years on the major child mental health problems in all minority ethnic groups.
Charities have repeatedly warned about high levels of problem gambling in minority ethnic communities, citing evidence from the government's own gambling prevalence surveys.
Not knowing how to swim is a problem particularly in minority communities.
Therefore, including a wide variety of items on internalizing symptoms may enhance identification of these problems in ethnic minorities.
There is a "perception problem in the minority community," he says, that "it is easier to become a celebrity or athlete than an entrepreneur".
