Schlieker, Mortimer (2020) Ethnic inequalities in adolescents’ subjective well-being: the effects of social capital. Master thesis.
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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.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Population Studies |
| Supervisor: | Valk, H.A.G. de |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2020 11:13 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2020 11:13 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3338 |
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