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Perceived Discrimination And Self-Rated Health In South Korea: A Nationally Representative Survey, Seung-Sup Kim, David R. Williams
Perceived Discrimination And Self-Rated Health In South Korea: A Nationally Representative Survey, Seung-Sup Kim, David R. Williams
Environmental and Occupational Health Faculty Publications
Background
There is mounting evidence that discriminatory experiences can harm health. However, previous research has mainly focused on the health effects of racial discrimination in U.S. or European countries although there is pervasive discrimination by gender, age, education and other factors in Asian countries.
Methods
We analyzed the data from the 7th wave of Korean Labor and Income Panel Study to investigate the association between perceived discriminatory experience and poor self-rated health in South Korea. Perceived discriminatory experiences were measured in eight situations through a modified Experience of Discrimination questionnaire. In each of eight situations, the lifetime prevalence of perceived …
Measuring Discrimination In South Korea: Underestimating The Prevalence Of Discriminatory Experiences Among Female And Less Educated Workers?., Seung-Sup Kim, Yeonseung Chung, David R. Williams
Measuring Discrimination In South Korea: Underestimating The Prevalence Of Discriminatory Experiences Among Female And Less Educated Workers?., Seung-Sup Kim, Yeonseung Chung, David R. Williams
Environmental and Occupational Health Faculty Publications
Objectives
To investigate the possibility that Koreans show different patterns in reporting discriminatory experiences based on their gender and education level, we analyzed the participants who answered “Not Applicable” for the questions of discriminatory experiences that they were eligible to answer.
Methods
Discriminatory experiences in eight social situations were assessed using the 7th wave of Korean Labor and Income Panel Study. After restricting the study population to waged workers, a logistic regression model was constructed to predict the probability that an individual has experienced discrimination based on the observed covariates for each of eight situations, using the data of participants …