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Chloe Basch
Chloe Basch is a junior at Wesleyan University Majoring in Romance Languages and Literatures. She works as a Teaching Assistant for the course: “Life Writing: Writing About the Self and From Experience”, and is pursuing independent research on Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
Abstract: Research shows that the process of assimilation can have a negative effect on immigrant health over time; on average, first-generation immigrants exhibit stronger health indicators upon arrival, but these advantages tend to diminish in the second generation (Bostean, 2013; Hamilton, 2011; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], 2023). Respondents (n=556) were drawn from the 2021 General Social Survey (GSS), and a wellbeing score was created by subsetting the full GSS data and selecting only columns related to physical, mental, or social health. Data from the GSS show that second generation immigrants have a higher wellbeing score than first generation.The significant correlation between generation status and wellbeing disagrees with the findings of the literature that first generation immigrants exhibit higher health.