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Examines the impact of neighborhood composition on minority youths' mental health during the pandemic, indicating the importance of social interactions.
Living in areas with higher co-ethnic density for minority groups, and a lower spatial concentration of residents of majority ethnicity, might be protective of minority youths' mental health. However, this protective effect of greater residential ethnic mix might be contingent on there being in-person interactions, which were severely reduced during the height of a pandemic. This finding thus underscores the need for initiatives to maintain social connectedness within one's neighborhood even in the face of safe distancing measures.
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