TY - JOUR
T1 - Stress and Resilience
T2 - Key Correlates of Mental Health and Substance Use in the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latino Youth
AU - Perreira, Krista M.
AU - Marchante, Ashley N.
AU - Schwartz, Seth J.
AU - Isasi, Carmen R.
AU - Carnethon, Mercedes R.
AU - Corliss, Heather L.
AU - Kaplan, Robert C.
AU - Santisteban, Daniel A.
AU - Vidot, Denise C.
AU - Van Horn, Linda
AU - Delamater, Alan M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/2/15
Y1 - 2019/2/15
N2 - This study examined associations of immigrant generation, acculturation, and sources of stress and resilience with four outcomes—depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms, alcohol susceptibility, and smoking susceptibility. We used data from 1466 youth (ages 8–16) enrolled in the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latino Youth (SOL Youth), a probability sample of Hispanic/Latino youth living in Chicago (IL), Miami (FL), Bronx (NY), and San Diego (CA). We found no evidence of an immigrant paradox. Greater children’s acculturative stress was associated with depression/anxiety symptoms; greater parent’s acculturative stress was associated with smoking susceptibility. Family functioning and children’s ethnic identity were associated with fewer depression/anxiety symptoms and lower alcohol/smoking susceptibility. Although acculturation-related stressors increase youths’ risks for poor mental health and substance use, the development of positive ethnic identities and close, well-functioning family support systems can help protect Latino/Hispanic children from the negative behavioral and health-related consequences of stress.
AB - This study examined associations of immigrant generation, acculturation, and sources of stress and resilience with four outcomes—depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms, alcohol susceptibility, and smoking susceptibility. We used data from 1466 youth (ages 8–16) enrolled in the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latino Youth (SOL Youth), a probability sample of Hispanic/Latino youth living in Chicago (IL), Miami (FL), Bronx (NY), and San Diego (CA). We found no evidence of an immigrant paradox. Greater children’s acculturative stress was associated with depression/anxiety symptoms; greater parent’s acculturative stress was associated with smoking susceptibility. Family functioning and children’s ethnic identity were associated with fewer depression/anxiety symptoms and lower alcohol/smoking susceptibility. Although acculturation-related stressors increase youths’ risks for poor mental health and substance use, the development of positive ethnic identities and close, well-functioning family support systems can help protect Latino/Hispanic children from the negative behavioral and health-related consequences of stress.
KW - Depression/anxiety and smoking/alcohol
KW - Immigrant paradox
KW - Latino/Hispanic adolescent immigrant acculturation
KW - Mental health and substance use
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U2 - 10.1007/s10903-018-0724-7
DO - 10.1007/s10903-018-0724-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 29550906
AN - SCOPUS:85044026969
SN - 1557-1912
VL - 21
SP - 4
EP - 13
JO - Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
JF - Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
IS - 1
ER -
