Main objective, specific aims: The goal of this project is to study the interactions between psychological and social risk factors in depression and addiction across ethnic groups (minorities and Dutch) in Amsterdam. We have translated this goal into three specific aims, or projects:
1)Analyze networks of risk factors (e.g. experienced stress, perceived social support, neuroticism, mastery, trauma, perceived discrimination, neighborhood) for the two disorders across ethnic groups
2) Use follow-up data to test the predictions of the models from Project 1 over time.
3) Use treatment study data to evaluate predictions of the models from Projects 1 and 2, to investigate how network changes take place using data from currently effective treatments