Qualitative data collection was approved by the ethics committees of the University of Curaçao and the University of Groningen, and conducted on Curaçao and in the Netherlands. The final sample consisted of 19 Curaçaoan (58% female), 15 Curaçaoan-Dutch (60% female), and 16 Dutch (81% female) young people between 14 and 29 years old. Except for one, parents of all Curaçaoan participants were born on Curaçao, all Curaçaoan-Dutch participants had at least one parent born on Curaçao, and parents of 13 of 16 Dutch participants were born in the Netherlands.
We assessed participants’ SES by their parents’ highest completed level of education and work situation or level and divided both measures into low, medium, and high (Volksgezondheidenzorg.info, 2019). With low, we refer to primary school education, respectively, unemployment or employment with simple routine tasks. With medium, we refer to higher general secondary-, pre-university-, or intermediate vocational education, respectively, employment with moderate to complex tasks. With high, we refer to higher professional education or university, respectively, employment with complex and specialized tasks. We determined ethnicity by asking participants whether they felt their identity, upbringing, and friends were rather Curaçaoan, Curaçaoan-Dutch, Dutch, or otherwise.