Reservation lands as a protective social factor: an analysis of psychological distress among two American Indian tribes.
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The unique physical, cultural, and ecological location of U.S. American Indian reservations simultaneously presents risks for mental health and offers sources of resilience to Native peoples. Using survey data from two American Indian tribes, we explore whether the length of one's life spent on a reservation is associated with lower odds of psychological distress. In both tribes, we find that individuals who live a vast majority of their lives on the reservation have lower odds of psychological distress than individuals who spent portions of their life off or near the reservation. These findings suggest a need to reframe the perception of life experience on tribal reservations but also call for a more nuanced investigation of the life experience of American Indians. This study illustrates the importance of deeply exploring the relationship that American Indians have with their tribal reservation lands.
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Prior research on mental health and inequality demonstrates that external social structures condition mental health above and beyond individual experiences.
“Prior research on mental health and inequality demonstrates that external social structures condition mental health above and beyond individual experiences (Sewell et al., 2016; Huyser et al., 2018; Williams, 2018).”
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- Authors
- Huyser, K. R., Angel, R. J., Beals, J., Cox, J. H., Hummer, R. A., Sakamoto, A., Manson, S. M., & the AI-SUPERPFP Team
- Affiliations
- University of New Mexico (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Texas A&M University System (US)
- Venue
- Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2018-01
- Volume
- 4
- ISSN
- 2378-0231 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6699168
- OpenAlex
- W2901642512
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4
- FWCI
- 1.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- UNC Libraries
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH42473, R01 MH48174)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Keywords
- Indian reservations, reservation lands, psychological distress, mental health, Native American tribes, resilience, tribal identity, life experience
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