eprintid: 3338
rev_number: 5
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datestamp: 2020-09-07 11:13:41
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type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Schlieker, Mortimer
creators_id: S4095022
creators_email: mschlieker@live.de
title: Ethnic inequalities in adolescents’ subjective well-being: the effects of social capital
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: Despite the significant structural inequalities and psychosocial challenges that young immi-grants experience during their acculturation process in Germany, it is only partly understood how these additional obstacles affect their subjective well-being. This paper aims at closing this research gap by exploring potential life satisfaction differences between young natives and immigrants based on a sample of 10,222 tenth graders from the fourth starting cohort of the National Educational Panel Study in Germany. In contrast to the initial hypothesis, the results suggest that adolescent immigrants and natives are, on average, equally satisfied with their lives in Germany. Multivariate regression techniques reveal that immigrant youth are even more satisfied with their lives than their counterparts after controlling for several socio-economic effects. Analysing cultural integration mechanisms and different forms of friend-ship and family social capital shows that friendships are a decisive complement to support from the family during adolescence. Especially culturally distant immigrant youth benefit from good and supportive friendship networks.
date: 2020
pages: 38
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: POPST
tutors_name: Valk, H.A.G. de
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Demografie
tutors_email: H.A.G.de.Valk@rug.nl
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keywords_local: Adolescence
keywords_local: immigrants
keywords_local: subjective well-being
keywords_local: satisfaction with life
keywords_local: social capital
keywords_local: cultural distance
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2020-08-27
citation:   Schlieker, Mortimer  (2020) Ethnic inequalities in adolescents’ subjective well-being: the effects of social capital.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3338/1/Master%20Thesis_S4095022_Schlieker_Mortimer.pdf