The Crisis in White Women's Mental Health

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorWu, Cary
dc.contributor.authorGreto, Evan Phillip
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-08T14:44:41Z
dc.date.available2023-12-08T14:44:41Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-08
dc.date.updated2023-12-08T14:44:40Z
dc.degree.disciplineSociology
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractMental health can be challenging for individuals of varying racialized and gendered identities. However, not everyone experiences mental health in the same way. Contemporary research and literature have suggested that white women, especially within the United States of America, experience significant difficulties and disadvantages that result in poor mental health experiences and states. In this paper, I adopt an intersectional life course approach to consider how race and gender intersect to affect mental health and overall wellbeing across the life span. This approach will allow me to understand an interesting paradox in mental health wherein white women experience poorer mental health because of various cultural and social stressors that have less of an impact towards the mental health of men and minority populations. Findings situate that white women’s poorer mental health experiences are a result of not only racialized and gendered differences, but can also be attributed to age, income, marital status, trust, and education.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41752
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subjectSocial psychology
dc.subject.keywordsGender
dc.subject.keywordsRace
dc.subject.keywordsMental health
dc.subject.keywordsIntersectionality
dc.subject.keywordsLife course
dc.subject.keywordsWhite women
dc.titleThe Crisis in White Women's Mental Health
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Greto_Evan_P_2023_Masters.pdf
Size:
1.82 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.87 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
YorkU_ETDlicense.txt
Size:
3.39 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download

Collections

Sociology

All items in the YorkSpace institutional repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved except where explicitly noted.