Week 1 Data Analysis Question

STEP 1: Choose a data set that you would like to work with.

I have looked at the data sets and I am interested in using the AddHealth data.  I have a background in public health and I feel that adolescent health is an aspect of public health, worldwide, that hasn’t had enough attention from researchers, funding, and program development /evaluation.

STEP 2. Identify a specific topic of interest

I am going to look at the association between moving and self-reported mental health in adolescents.

STEP 3. Prepare a codebook of your own (i.e., print individual pages or copy screen and paste into a new document) from the larger codebook that includes the questions/items/variables that measure your selected topics.)

Codebook:

2. Think about the house or apartment building in which you lived in

January 1990, when you were {AGE IN JANUARY 1990} years

old. Do you still live there? 

3. How old were you when you moved here to your current residence? H1GI3 num 2

Section 10: Feelings Scale

Section 10, which is administered to all respondents, collects information about their current emotional state.

1. You were bothered by things that usually don’t bother you. 

2. You didn’t feel like eating, your appetite was poor. 

3. You felt that you could not shake off the blues, even with help from

your family and your friends. 

4. You felt that you were just as good as other people. 

5. You had trouble keeping your mind on what you were doing. 

6. You felt depressed. 

7. You felt that you were too tired to do things. 

8. You felt hopeful about the future. 

9. You thought your life had been a failure. 

10. You felt fearful. 

11. You were happy 

12. You talked less than usual. 

13. You felt lonely. 

14. People were unfriendly to you. 

15. You enjoyed life. 

16. You felt sad. 

17. You felt that people disliked you. 

I am interested in determining if moving more recently or in older adolescent years has a more, less or equal emotional impact.

STEP 4. Identify a second topic that you would like to explore in terms of its association with your original topic.

Does moving increase likelihood of risky behavior?

STEP 5. Add questions/items/variables documenting this second topic to your personal codebook.

Section 28: Tobacco, Alcohol, Drugs—Audio CASI

STEP 6. Perform a literature review to see what research has been previously done on this topic. Use sites such as Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) to search for published academic work in the area(s) of interest. Try to find multiple sources, and take note of basic bibliographic information.

My search terms were "Third Culture Kids" and adolescent health


George Patton , MBBS, MD, and Marleen Temmerman, MD, PhD. Gaps in Adolescent Health. Journal of Adolescent Health 59 (2016) 
https://translate.google.com.co/translate?hl=es-419&sl=en&tl=es&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC5026676%2F&anno=2

A story to tell: The identity development of women growing up as third culture kids
KA Walters, FP Auton-Cuff - Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 2009 - Taylor & Francis

The effect of multilingualism/multiculturalism on personality: no gain without pain for Third Culture Kids?
JM Dewaele, JP Van Oudenhoven - International Journal of …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis

Children and young people living in changing worlds: The process of assessing and understanding the'third culture kid'
L Cockburn - School Psychology International, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com

Loss and grief between and among cultures: The experience of third culture kids
KR Gilbert - Illness, crisis & loss, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com

LOSS AND GRIEF AMONG THIRD CULTURE KIDS / 107 …
  Cited by 50 Related articles All 2 versions
[PDF] semanticscholar.org

Third culture kids and the consequences of international sojourns on authoritarianism, acculturative balance, and positive affect
BE Peterson, LT Plamondon - Journal of Research in Personality, 2009 - Elsevier

Children third on the move culture kids
WD Gillies - Childhood Education, 1998 - Taylor & Francis

Confused or multicultural: Third culture individuals' cultural identity
AM Moore, GG Barker - International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2012 - Elsevier

STEP 7. Based on your literature review, develop a hypothesis about what you believe the association might be between these topics. Be sure to integrate the specific variables you selected into the hypothesis.

The literature points to many and various positive and negative aspects of moving in adolescents.  Third Culture Kids are kids that have a passport in one country, grew up in another, and live in another.  My hypothesis is that in general, moving, especially moving in older adolescents has an impact on emotional health.  There can also be a positive factor of resilience associated with moving in adolescents that I would like to explore further.  However, there are also large evidence gaps in research associated with adolescent health.  George Patton and Marleen Temmerman (2016) pointed out that now is the time to do more evidence based research to support the health of adolescents specifically.