Adverse Social Conditions Research Articles

997-P: Social Risk Domains and Emergency Room Visits among Adults with Diabetes and Low Income

Background: In the U.S., more than 34 million adults ≥18 years of age are estimated to have diabetes. Adults with low-income levels are disproportionately impacted. Adverse social conditions associated with poor health, or social risk factors, contribute to poorer access to care, lower quality of care, and worsened clinical outcomes among these adults. The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between social risk domains and hospital utilization among adults with diabetes and low income. Methods: Data of 5,077 adults with diabetes and income <$50,000 or receiving income or assistance from welfare programs or disability insurance (weighted sample = 41,735,609) from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) were analyzed. The outcomes were “Have visited the Emergency Room (ER) about own health in past 12 months (yes/no)”, and “Number of times visited ER in past 12 months”. The independent variables were five social risk domains (economic instability, neighborhood and built environment, education access, food insecurity, social and community context). Covariates included age, sex, race/ethnicity, insurance, marital status, employment, comorbidity, region. Logistic regression models were used to assess the independent association between each outcome and each social risk domain. Results: In the fully adjusted model, adults with social and community context risks had a 76% higher risk of visiting the emergency room for their own health in the past 12 months. Also, for each unit increase in the number of times an adult visited the emergency room, there was a significant association with economic instability (βeta (β) coefficient=0.39, (95% CI 0.14, 0.64)), food insecurity (β=0.31, (95% CI 0.13, 0.50)), and social/community risk (β=0.54, (95% CI 0.38, 0.70)). Conclusions: These findings suggest the need for mitigating the influence of social and community factors, economic instability, and food insecurity among adults with diabetes and low income to reduce ER visits. Disclosure J.S.Williams: None. Y.Xu: None. S.Bhandari: None. M.N.Ozieh: None. O.J.Akinboboye: None. L.E.Egede: None. Funding National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (K24DK093699, R01DK118038, R01DK120861, R21DK123720)

Cross-cultural Mobility Representations of Academically Talented Brazilians: Triggers and Challenges

The present study investigated the cross-cultural mobility mental representations of a sample of forty-one academically talented Brazilians living in countries that offer opportunities to improve their talents. Technical-empirical instruments such as a demographic survey and a semi-structured interview script were used, and the Descending Hierarchical Classification Analysis (Iramuteq—Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires) was employed to compare the classes of words (clusters). Descriptive and inferential statistics (e.g., chi-square) with a 1 degree of freedom and 5% significance level were run as default. Results indicated an increase in the number of academically talented Brazilians going abroad over the last decade, with notable mobility triggers (e.g., development opportunities, quality of life, professional recognition) identified. As opportunities for these people are not always available in their countries, not migrating can represent an interruption in their talent development process, which extends throughout their life course. Cross-cultural mobility not only represents an exercise of personal agency or academic collaboration but also an escape from adverse social and political conditions.

L’approche syndémique appliquée à la santé des minorités sexuelles et de genre : étude de la portée

Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) represent a vulnerable population, disproportionately affected by mental health issues, a higher exposure to violence and a higher prevalence of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, for some subgroups. Derived from medical anthropology, the concept of a syndemic consists in the clustering and interaction between multiple health conditions through adverse social conditions such as discrimination or precarity. Confronted to the multitude of adverse conditions affecting SGM, this framework is pertinent to study their health and to propose interventions. The purpose of this scoping review is to synthetize the knowledge regarding syndemic theory applied to sexual and gender minorities in order to propose concrete suggestions for scholarly research and field intervention. 126 papers were included. European data as well as data concerning sexual minority women and transgender men are scarce. A co-occurrence of psychosocial conditions fostered by stigmatization is well-established. Furthermore, the presence of a syndemic was associated to sexual higher odds of acquiring HIV, suicidal behavior and healthcare utilization. The syndemic framework is important to the health of SGM, both for academic and interventional purposes. Current priorities should be to act against structural disadvantages leading to a syndemic, to improve our knowledge on SGM health in European context and to develop local programs based on peer-support.

Energy poverty and the convergence hypothesis across EU member states

Energy poverty is an emerging issue towards global affairs. Currently, the development of energy-related policies is becoming essential, with regard to new societies, social inclusion and social rights. In this paper, we examine the dynamic patterns of energy poverty among 27 EU member states between 2005 and 2020. We use the log-t regression test to investigate the convergence hypothesis, and the P&S data-driven algorithm to detect potential convergence clubs. The empirical results of energy poverty indicators are mixed, and the convergence hypothesis of the states is rejected. Instead, convergence clubs are exhibited, implying that groups of countries converge to different steady states in the long run. In view of the convergence clubs, we suggest that the affordability of heating services is potentially explained by structural conditions of housing, climate conditions and energy costs. Besides, the adverse financial and social conditions for the European households have significantly triggered the arrears on utility bills. Moreover, a significant proportion of households do not have basic sanitation services.

The feasibility of identifying financial hardship in a tertiary paediatric setting, and associations with caregiver and child mental health

Financial hardship is a social determinant of health but is rarely assessed by healthcare services. This study (1) investigated the feasibility and acceptability of asking caregivers about financial hardship during a routine clinical encounter, and (2) described associations between financial hardship and caregiver and child mental health. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Setting: Day Medical Unit of Australia's largest public paediatric hospital, 1 April-31 July 2021. Participants: Families with children aged 2–17 years with chronic medical conditions. Measures: Caregiver-reported: financial hardship (3 study-designed items dichotomised into any (yes) versus none (no)) and mental health (Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS), with subscales classified as poor (moderate/severe/extremely severe) versus not (none/mild)). Caregivers and young people aged 11–17 years reported child mental health (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), categorised as normal/borderline/abnormal). Analysis: Feasibility and acceptability were assessed by response proportions. Chi square tests assessed associations between mental health and financial hardship. 160/193 (83%) of caregivers and 50/79 (63%) of 11–17-year-olds consented and completed the surveys. 22% of families reported financial hardship and 24% of caregivers reported moderate-to-severe mental health on at least one DASS subscale. Abnormal mental health (SDQ) was common for children according to caregivers (40%) and young people themselves (43%). Financial hardship was associated with poorer mental health when reported by caregivers for themselves and their children, but not when reported by the young person (noting numbers were small). Tertiary healthcare may offer a feasible setting for identifying and responding to common and adverse social conditions such as financial hardship and mental health.

Shifting the Sociometer:Opioid Receptor Blockade Lowers Self-Esteem.

Given the evolutionary importance of social ties for survival, humans are thought to have evolved psychobiological mechanisms to monitor and safeguard the status of their social bonds. At the psychological level, self-esteem is proposed to function as a gauge-sociometer- reflecting one's social belongingness status. At the biological level, endogenous opioids appear to be an important substrate for the hedonic signalling needed to regulate social behaviour. We investigated whether endogenous opioids may serve as the biological correlate of the sociometer. We administered 50 mg naltrexone (an opioid receptor antagonist) and placebo in counterbalanced order to 26 male and female participants on two occasions approximately one week apart. Participants reported lower levels of self-esteem-particularly self-liking-on the naltrexone (vs. placebo) day. We also explored a potential behavioral consequence of naltrexone administration: attentional bias to accepting (smiling) faces-an early-stage perceptual process thought to maximize opportunities to restore social connection. Participants exhibited heightened attentional bias towards accepting faces on the naltrexone (vs. placebo) day, which we interpret as an indicator of heightened social need under opioid receptor blockade. We discuss implications of these findings for understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of sociality as well as the relationship between adverse social conditions, low self-esteem, and psychopathology.

Socially stratified associations between self-employment and health among Chilean older people.

Non-standard forms of employment, such as self-employment, are among the most prevalent routes for older people to access the workforce. While the financial benefits of any form of self-employment in later life have been widely acknowledged, less is known about their impact on health. This study explores the association between self-employment and 16 health outcomes among older people with different social stratification characteristics in Chile, a developing country experiencing rapid population ageing. We rely on a rich representative life history survey of Chilean men and women between the ages 65 and 75years (N=802) living in the capital Santiago, weighted sequence analysis to reconstruct employment histories and weighted regression analysis to measure the association between self-employment and health in later life. All our analyses are adjusted by both individual lifetime health indicators and employment trajectories. Our results show that being self-employed relative to not working is positively associated with health in seven out of 16 outcomes. More surprisingly, those in a self-employment position seem to enjoy better health outcomes, particularly among the less educated and lower-income levels. These stratified associations raise questions about how these individuals enjoy better health despite facing adverse social conditions.

Polygenic Risk and Social Support in Predicting Depression Under Stress.

Despite substantial progress in identifying genomic variation associated with major depression, the mechanisms by which genomic and environmental factors jointly influence depression risk remain unclear. Genomically conferred sensitivity to the social environment may be one mechanism linking genomic variation and depressive symptoms. The authors assessed whether social support affects the likelihood of depression development differently across the spectrum of genomic risk in two samples that experienced substantial life stress: 1,011 first-year training physicians (interns) in the Intern Health Study (IHS) and 435 recently widowed Health and Retirement Study (HRS) participants. Participants' depressive symptoms and social support were assessed with questionnaires that were administered before and after the life stressor. Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for major depressive disorder were calculated for both samples. Depressive symptom scores increased by 126% after the start of internship in the IHS sample and by 34% after widowing in the HRS sample. There was an interaction between depression PRS and change in social support in the prediction of depressive symptoms in both the IHS sample (incidence rate ratio [IRR]=0.96, 95% CI=0.93, 0.98) and the HRS sample (IRR=0.78, 95% CI=0.66, 0.92), with higher depression PRS associated with greater sensitivity to changes in social support. Johnson-Neyman intervals indicated a crossover effect, with losses and gains in social support moderating the effect of PRS on depressive symptoms. (Johnson-Neyman interval in the IHS sample, -0.02, 0.71; in the HRS sample, -0.49, 1.92). The study findings suggest that individuals with high genomic risk for developing increased depressive symptoms under adverse social conditions also benefit more from nurturing social environments.

Emancipation Against All Odds? The Conservatism Charge to Deliberative Democracy Reconsidered

Although deliberative democracy has been conceptualized as an emancipatory project, it has since been accused of producing conservative outcomes. This article provides a critical and comprehensive review of the conservatism charge by asking: Does deliberative democracy’s mechanisms systematically undermine its emancipatory claim? What are the persistent and emerging obstacles to the realization of deliberative democracy's emancipatory potential? To answer these questions, we develop an analytical framework that identifies deliberative democracy’s problematic mechanisms. We argue that the conservatism charge may be sorted into three dimensions: social, substantial, and temporal. The three dimensions conceptually comprise the questions of who deliberates, how deliberation unfolds, and what effects deliberative procedures have on the process of emancipation in time. The article demonstrates that although deliberative processes have the potential to reach emancipatory aims even under unfavorable circumstances, adverse social conditions can produce conservative effects through deliberative practices. In order to avoid or mitigate those tendencies and promote the genuinely critical potential of deliberative practice, measures and research desiderata are discussed on both setting and system levels.

Association of Neighborhood Social Context and Perceived Stress Among Mothers of Young Children.

Chronic parental stress may negatively impact health among both parents and children. Adverse neighborhood social conditions like crime may increase stress while a supportive neighborhood may buffer stress and promote well-being. Our objective was to examine associations between neighborhood social factors and stress among mothers of young children. We surveyed 300 mothers/female caregivers of Medicaid-enrolled 2 to 4-year-old children in Philadelphia. Maternal stress was measured via the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (range 0-40). Mothers' perceived neighborhood safety and collective efficacy were assessed using validated scales. Addresses were geocoded to link census tract-level violent crime rates. We used multivariable linear regression to examine associations of neighborhood safety, collective efficacy, and crime with maternal stress, adjusted for demographics, household socioeconomic status, and neighborhood poverty. Among mothers (mean age 31, 60% Black/African American), higher perceived neighborhood safety and collective efficacy were associated with lower stress scores after adjustment for covariates. Each 1-point increase (on a 5-point scale) in perceived neighborhood safety was associated with a 2.30-point decrease in maternal stress (95% CI: -3.07, -1.53). Similarly, each 1-point increase in perceived collective efficacy was associated with a 3.08-point decrease in maternal stress (95% CI: -4.13, -2.02). Police-recorded violent crime rates were not associated with maternal stress. Mothers of young children who perceive their neighborhood social environment more favorably report less stress compared to those who feel their neighborhood environment is less safe and cohesive. Future work is warranted to investigate whether interventions that increase perceived neighborhood safety and collective efficacy reduce stress.

Determinants of Homelessness (SODH) in North West England in 2020

Abstract Background Poverty creates social conditions that increase the likelihood of homelessness. These include exposure to traumatic life experiences; social disadvantages such as poor educational experiences; being raised in a broken family, care homes or foster care; physical, emotional, and sexual abuse; and neglect at an early age. These conditions reduce people's ability to negotiate through life challenges. Methods This cross-sectional study documents the clustering and frequency of adverse social conditions among 152 homeless people from four cities in North West England between January and August 2020. Results Two-step cluster analysis showed that having parents with a criminal record, care history, and child neglect/abuse history was predictive of homelessness. The cluster of indicator variables among homeless people included sexual abuse (χ2 (N = 152) = 220.684, p < 0.001, Cramer's V = 0.7), inappropriate sexual behaviour (χ2 (N = 152) = 207.737, p < 0.001, Cramer's V = 0.7), emotional neglect (χ2 (N = 152) = 181.671, p < 0.001, Cramer's V = 0.7), physical abuse by step-parent (χ2 (N = 152) = 195.882, p < 0.001, Cramer's V = 0.8), and physical neglect (χ2 (N = 152) = 205.632, p < 0.001, Cramer's V = 0.8). Conclusions Poverty and homelessness are intertwined because of the high prevalence of poverty among the homeless. Poverty sets up a chain of interactions between social conditions that increase the likelihood of unfavourable outcomes: homelessness is at the end of the interaction chain. Interventions supporting families to rise out of poverty may also reduce entry into homelessness. Key messages

Assessment of Gender Variations in Weight Control Behaviours Amongst Undergraduates in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Background of the study: Weight control is increasingly becoming one of the most discussed topics amongst the youths due to adverse social and medical conditions associated with extremes body weight. Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess the gender variations in weight control behaviors amongst undergraduates in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, South-South, Nigeria. Materials and methods: The study involved 600 apparently healthy students (including 249 males and 351 females) who responded to an interviewer-administered questionnaire. Results: The results showed that the weight control strategies applied by undergraduates are typically aimed at either maintaining or reducing their present body weight. More of the males are satisfied with their weight and would engage in regular exercise to maintain it. Females had a high tendency to be dissatisfied with their body weight and shape and would associate their overweight with overfeeding. Although exercise was the most common weight control measure adopted by both male and female respondents, only 20.5% of them engaged in regular exercise. 51.4% of subjects did not consider applying any weight control measure necessary. Dietary restriction was more commonly adopted by females. The most commonly skipped meal by both male and female undergraduates was lunch. However, more females skipped dinner in other to lose weight. Conclusion: The present study suggests that body weight perception is a very important determinant of weight control behavior. Social acceptance is a common phenomenon amongst female undergraduates who are also more concerned about their body weight and shape.

Associations Between Food Insecurity and Neighborhood Safety, Social Cohesion, Social Control, and Crime Among Mothers of Preschool-Aged Children.

Food insecurity has myriad associations with poor health, and low-income communities have higher than average prevalence of food insecurity. Living in a supportive neighborhood social environment may protect against food insecurity, while adverse neighborhood social conditions, such as crime, may increase the likelihood of food insecurity. To examine associations between food insecurity and neighborhood social factors among families with young children, we administered a cross-sectional survey to 300 mothers and female caregivers of Medicaid-enrolled two- to four-year-old children in Philadelphia. We used multivariable regression to examine associations between food insecurity and perceived neighborhood safety, social cohesion, informal social control, and crime, adjusted for demographics, socioeconomic status, and neighborhood characteristics. Lower food insecurity prevalence was associated with higher perceived neighborhood safety and social cohesion, and lower police-recorded violent crime rates. Future work to increase food security among low-income households may benefit from targeting the neighborhood social environment.

The Case for Integrating Medical-Legal Partnerships Into Trauma Care.

Medical-legal needs are health-harming adverse social conditions with a legal remedy. Medical-legal partnerships in primary care settings have been proposed to address these needs for at-risk patients already seeking medical care. Our hypothesis is that trauma patients represent a unique population that may be more likely to have baseline medical-legal needs. A trauma-specific medical-legal needs survey was developed. Adult trauma patients who were able to give consent and were admitted to our urban Level I hospital were surveyed. Medical-legal needs were tabulated from the surveys. Those patients in the top decile of medical-legal needs were categorized as having a High Burden of medical-legal needs. Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify those independent risk factors for having a High Burden of medical-legal needs. A total of 566 participants completed the survey (78.2% response rate). The mean number of medical-legal needs for our population was 2.5 (SD=3.1). 73% of our respondents had at least one medical-legal need. The most common needs were Housing (n=229, 40%) and Education/Employment (n=223, 39%). Older age (aOR=3.01, 95% CI 1.2-8.1, P=0.02), being separated or divorced (aOR=4.25, 95% CI 1.2-14.0, P=0.02), self perceived poor health (aOR=8.4, 95% CI 2.61-26.86, P<0.001), penetrating mechanism of injury (aOR=2.52, 95% CI 1.22-5.2, P=0.01), and having been admitted to the hospital for a longer period of time (aOR=5.48, 95% CI 1.55-19.4, P=0.008) were all independently associated with a High Burden of medical-legal needs. Trauma patients have a high baseline burden of medical-legal needs. Medical-legal partnerships embedded in trauma teams may offer an innovative strategy to help address long-term health outcomes in a highly vulnerable population that would not otherwise have contact with the healthcare system.

608-P: Intersectional Identities, Social Risk Factors, and Quality of Life in Men and Women with Diabetes

Background: More than 34 million adults ≥18 years have diabetes in the U.S. Adverse social conditions associated with poor health, or social risk factors, contribute to poorer access to care, quality of care, and clinical outcomes for adults with diabetes. Intersectionality, defined as having multiple marginalized/disadvantaged social identities that reflect larger-scale inequalities and systems of oppression, may contribute to diabetes disparities. The study objective was to assess differences in the relationship between intersectionality and social risk factors between men and women with diabetes. Methods: Data of 2,476 adults (weighted sample = 1,144,573) from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) were analyzed. The outcomes were physical and mental health quality of life, and the predictor was intersectionality summed as Non-Hispanic White, age ≥65 years, unemployment, less than high school education, and income &amp;lt;$25K. Covariates included comorbidities, insurance, region, and metropolitan statistical area. Logistic regression models were found for each of the outcomes to assess their independent association with intersectionality. Results: In the fully adjusted model, women with 3+ intersecting social identities were 4x more likely to have poorer physical health (OR=4.13 (95% CI 0.54, 7.73)) compared to women reporting no intersectionality. Men with food insecurity were 5x more likely to have poorer mental health (OR=4.93, 95% CI 1.02, 8.84) than men without food insecurity, whereas women with food insecurity were 3x more likely to have poorer mental health (OR=2.56, 95% CI 0.61, 4.51) compared to women without food insecurity. There were no significant associations between intersectionality and housing instability in this sample. Conclusions: These findings suggest the need for understanding the influence of intersectionality among women with diabetes and social risk factors, especially food insecurity, among men and women with diabetes. Disclosure J.S.Williams: None. A.Thorgerson: None. M.N.Ozieh: None. L.E.Egede: None. Funding National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (K24DK093699, R01DK118038, R01DK120861 and R21DK123720)

Classifying Minority Stress Disclosure on Social Media with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory

Because of their stigmatized social status, sexual and gender minority (SGM; e.g., gay, transgender) people experience minority stress (i.e., identity-based stress arising from adverse social conditions). Given that minority stress is the leading framework for understanding health inequity among SGM people, researchers and clinicians need accurate methods to detect minority stress. Since social media fulfills important developmental, affiliative, and coping functions for SGM people, social media may be an ecologically valid channel for detecting minority stress. In this paper, we propose a bidirectional long short-term memory (BI-LSTM) network for classifying minority stress dis-closed on Reddit. Our experiments on a dataset of 12,645 Reddit posts resulted in an average accuracy of 65%.

Associations Between Different Self-reported Social Risks and Neighborhood-level Resources in Medicaid Patients.

Adverse social conditions are a key contributor to health disparities. Improved understanding of how social risk factors interact with each other and with neighborhood characteristics may inform efforts to reduce health disparities. A questionnaire of 29,281 patients was collected through the enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries in a large Northern California integrated health care delivery system between May 2016 and February 2020. Living in the least resourced quartile of neighborhoods as measured by a census-tract level Neighborhood Deprivation Index score. Five self-reported social risk factors: financial need, food insecurity, housing barriers, transportation barriers, and functional limitations. Nearly half (42.0%) of patients reported at least 1 social risk factor; 22.4% reported 2 or more. Mean correlation coefficient between social risk factors was ρ=0.30. Multivariable logistic models controlling for age, race/ethnicity, sex, count of chronic conditions, and insurance source estimated that living in the least resourced neighborhoods was associated with greater odds of food insecurity (adjusted odds ratio=1.07, 95% confidence interval: 1.00-1.13) and transportation barriers (adjusted odds ratio=1.20, 95% confidence interval: 1.11-1.30), but not financial stress, housing barriers, or functional limitations. We found that among 5 commonly associated social risk factors, Medicaid patients in a large Northern California health system typically reported only a single factor and that these factors did not correlate strongly with each other. We found only modestly greater social risk reported by patients in the least resourced neighborhoods. These results suggest that individual-level interventions should be targeted to specific needs whereas community-level interventions may be similarly important across diverse neighborhoods.

Obesity‐induced and LDL‐mediated NK Cell Function Loss is Accompanied by Proteasome‐dependent induction of Lysophagy in an at‐risk population of African American Women

Obesity and related chronic diseases (i.e. cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer) disproportionately affect African Americans (AA), shortening life expectancy and impacting quality of life. Life‐long exposure to adverse social determinants of health (SDoH) have been linked to obesity, warranting intensified research to further elucidate the ‘biology of adversity’ or the biologic consequences of adverse social conditions. Evidence suggests that exposure to chronic psychological and environmental stressors as SDoH leads to immune cell dysfunction, particularly for Natural Killer (NK) cells. Therefore, we examined changes in NK cell function in AA women, a group at high risk of Class III obesity (BMI ≥40 kg/m2). We have previously shown that NK cell degranulation is impaired in AA women with Class III obesity accompanied by a decrease in IFNg and TNFa, a loss in function driven by plasma LDL levels (b=‐0.35, p=0.03). A similar phenotype of dysfunctional NK cells could be achieved by overnight LDL treatment (50mg/dl) of healthy donor NK cells. To further determine the underlying signaling pathways, we employed proteomics of control and LDL treated NK cells. Here we identified 18 statistically significant regulated proteins (p&lt;0.05), and 23 proteins approaching significance (p&lt;0.07). Signaling pathway analysis revealed endolysosomal function, actin cytoskeleton regulation, and regulation of innate immune responses as significant pathways. Several proteins associated with autophagy and ubiquitination were also identified. This is of particular importance as LDL treatment of various cell types has been related to damaging lysosomes and a subsequent potential induction of lysophagy. Therefore, we investigated the impact of LDL on NK cell autophagy through western blot analysis of LC3 and p62 and found that enhanced autophagy is present in LDL treated NK cells. By employing the proteasome inhibitor MG‐132, we also found that the LDL‐induced increase in autophagy appears to be dependent on the activation of the 20S proteasome and subsequent ubiquitination of lysosomal proteins which results in depletion of functional lysosomes through lysophagy and is accompanied by NK cell function loss. In summary, we show a novel pathway potentially explaining obesity‐related NK cell function loss as a result of adverse SDoH in a population at highest risk for obesity‐related diseases like CVD and cancer. In the future, more research is needed to further understand the ‘biology of adversity’ and identifying targets for tailored interventions, ultimately reducing health inequities in chronic disease outcomes.

Theoretical Aspects of Migration and its Impact on Political Processes

The authors of the paper set the goal of examining the theoretical aspects of migration and showing the relationship between the influence of this social phenomenon on the political processes of the state and state policy in general. The authors highlight the main interdisciplinary approaches to the definition of the term “migration” with the aim of concretizing it in political science within the framework of the study. The study also answers the question of the relationship between "policy" and "politics" within a migration policy by comparing "state migration policy" and "migration policy", concerning which there is a different interpretation. The object of research is migration. The subject is migration policy and state migration policy. The topic is relevant because in the early 2000s migration acquired a new global scale under the influence of many heterogeneous factors often caused by adverse economic, social and socio-psychological conditions, as well as military conflicts of an interreligious and ethnopolitical nature. The research uses systemic, comparative, institutional, and ethnopolitical approaches. The systematization of approaches presents the scientific novelty to the definition of migration, as well as by the mutual influence of migration processes and political and administrative decisions.

PSYCHOLOGY OF VICTIM PERSONALITY IN THE MODERN SOCIAL CONDITIONS

Introduction. Сhanges taking place in Ukrainian society today are transforming the social structure, which is undergoing significant changes in the conditions of exacerbation of social inequality and poverty. We observe these changes in various spheres of life, but in our study we pay special attention to educational process, where take place radical and rapid changes that lead to various behavioral in adolescent disorders. We consider "victimhood" as the psychological property of an individual, as an existing social and personal phenomenon. Purpose. The aim of the article is to study the psychology of the victim's personality, taking into account the psychological characteristics of a person and ones predisposition to victim behavior and social conditions in which the person is and which make person a victim of adverse socialization conditions. Methods. Theoretical (conceptual and comparative analysis of philosophical, sociological, psychological and pedagogical, scientific and methodological and reference encyclopedic literature, legal documentation to clarify the content of basic concepts and study the state of development of the research problem in theory and practice); empirical (content analysis, observation, study and generalization of independent characteristics and pedagogical experience). Results. Analyzing different approaches to the definition of victimhood, we are inclined to an integrated approach, because it considers victimhood as a consequence of objective and subjective factors of victimization, i.e. takes into account influence of environment and self-perception of adolescent. This approach also allows us to consider victimhood as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. In this regard, some researchers suggest talking about the components (components, in some sources varieties) of victimhood. Thus, taking into account all the above provisions, in our study we will consider adolescent victimization as a set of stable psychophysiological, individual psychological and socio-psychological properties, which cause when interacting with external circumstances that can be corrected until they are completely neutralized or eliminated. Originality. The concepts of "victimhood", "victimization", "victim", "social standards", "stereotyping", "attitude" help to establish the logic of the transition of certain groups of potential victims of socialization into real, the main pattern of latent victims and realize the importance of large-scale events aimed at prevention and devictimization, which with the establishment of the cult of eternal human values will increase the performance of a tolerant society in which each individual will be able to find himself and his prominent place in a human society. Conclusion. Further scientific researches will be devoted to exploration of psychological and pedagogical features of devictimization of latent victims of adverse social conditions in the system of social standards, enriched with universal values.