Youth 2000 Project

Published 2011. Contact: Taciano Milfont

Overview

The mental health outcomes of immigrant and non-immigrant youth were examined based on a national sample of over 7000 New Zealand European, Asian and Pacific youth.

Although results varied across ethnic groups, overall results indicated that non-immigrant youth had better mental health outcomes than immigrant youth and that second-generation adolescents had better outcomes than their first-generation peers.