Depressive symptoms and externalizing behaviors among Hispanic immigrant adolescents: Examining longitudinal effects of cultural stress

Cano, Miguel Ángel; Schwartz, Seth J.; Castillo, Linda G.; Romero, Andrea J.; Huang, Sunan; Lorenzo‐Blanco, Elma I.; Unger, Jennifer B.; Zamboanga, Byron L.; Rosiers, Sabrina E. Des; Baezconde‐Garbanati, Lourdes; Lizzi, Karina M.; Soto, Daniel W.; Oshri, Assaf; Villamar, Juan A.; Pattarroyo, Monica; Szapocznik, José

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“…Overwhelmingly, the findings are based on cross-sectional data. Regression analysis was primarily used, but some employed more sophisticated methods, such as latent class analysis and latent profile analysis to create categories of various exposure variables, including discriminatory experience, cultural stressors, and coping styles [22,28,30,31,44,45]. Techniques were employed by some studies to examine potential intermediary pathways between discrimination and mental health, such as through depressive symptoms or anxiety [19,24,43,46], avoidant coping strategies [33,47], trans diagnostic factors [48], general stress [40], stronger belief in an unjust world [49], acculturation-related and social support variables [13,50,51], anger [46], prosocial behavior [33], and perfectionism [52].…”

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Perceived Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Mental Health: a Review and Future Directions for Social Epidemiology

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Purpose of review Recent literature on racial or ethnic discrimination and mental health was reviewed to assess the current science and identify key areas of emphasis for social epidemiology. Objectives of this review were to: 1) Determine whether there have been advancements in the measurement and analysis of perceived discrimination; 2) Identify the use of theories and/or frameworks in perceived discrimination and mental health research; and 3) Assess the extent to which stress buffers are being considered and evaluated in the existing literature. Recent findings Metrics and analytic approaches used to assess discrimination remain largely unchanged. Theory and/or frameworks such as the stress and coping framework continue to be underused in majority of the studies. Adolescents and young adults experiencing racial/ethnic discrimination were at greater risk of adverse mental health outcomes, and the accumulation of stressors over the life course may have an aggregate impact on mental health. Some growth seems evident in studies examining the mediation and moderation of stress buffers and other key factors with the findings suggesting a reduction in the effects of discrimination on mental health. Summary Discrimination scales should consider the multiple social identities of a person, the context where the exposure occurs, how the stressor manifests specifically in adolescents, the historical traumas, and cumulative exposure. Life course theory and intersectionality may help guide future work. Despite existing research, gaps remain in in elucidating the effects of racial and ethnic discrimination on mental health, signaling an opportunity and a call to social epidemiologists to engage in interdisciplinary research to speed research progress.

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Perceived Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Mental Health: a Review and Future Directions for Social Epidemiology

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“…Although cultural transactions can be positive (Cano, Vaughan, de Dios, Castro, Roncancio, & Ojeda, in press) or negative (Cano et al, 2015), we focused on negative cultural transactions. This follows from Acculturation Strain Theory , which proposes that enthnocultural orientation, operationalized as a unidimensional continuum of acculturation, is associated with increased experience of cultural stressors that in turn contribute to substance use and poor mental health outcomes (Vega, Zimmerman, Gil, Warheit, & Apospori, 1997).…”

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Alcohol use severity and depressive symptoms among late adolescent Hispanics: Testing associations of acculturation and enculturation in a bicultural transaction model

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Research has indicated that Hispanics have high rates of heavy drinking and depressive symptoms during late adolescence. The purpose of this study was to test a bicultural transaction model composed of two enthnocultural orientations (acculturation and enculturation); and stressful cultural transactions with both the U.S. culture (perceived ethnic discrimination) and Hispanic culture (perceived intragroup marginalization) to predict alcohol use severity and depressive symptoms among a sample of 129 (men = 39, women = 90) late adolescent Hispanics (ages 18 to 21) enrolled in college. Results from a path analysis indicated that the model accounted for 18.2% of the variance in alcohol use severity and 24.3% of the variance in depressive symptoms. None of the acculturation or enculturation domains had statistically significant direct effects with alcohol use severity or depressive symptoms. However, higher reports of ethnic discrimination were associated with higher reports of alcohol use severity and depressive symptoms. Similarly, higher reports of intragroup marginalization were associated with higher depressive symptoms. Further, both ethnic discrimination and intragroup marginalization functioned as mediators of multiple domains of acculturation and enculturation. These findings highlight the need to consider the indirect effects of enthnocultural orientations in relation to health-related outcomes.

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“…Unidimensional cultural constructs and broad measures of acculturation have been examined in relation to substance use initiation (Grigsby, Forster, Soto, & Unger, ) and continued use (Prado, Szapocznik, Maldonado‐Molina, Schwartz, & Pantin, ) among Hispanics; however, the influence of specific cultural factors on AOD attitudes among immigrant Hispanic samples remains scant. Recent research has demonstrated that cultural influences work in concert rather than in isolation (Cano et al., ; Flay, Snyder, & Petraitis, ), but empirical evidence is limited and further replication among immigrant samples.…”

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Cultural stressors, identity development, and substance use attitudes among Hispanic immigrant adolescents

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Journal Community Psychology

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Depressive symptoms and externalizing behaviors among Hispanic immigrant adolescents: Examining longitudinal effects of cultural stress

Cited by 127 publications

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Perceived Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Mental Health: a Review and Future Directions for Social Epidemiology

Perceived Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Mental Health: a Review and Future Directions for Social Epidemiology

Alcohol use severity and depressive symptoms among late adolescent Hispanics: Testing associations of acculturation and enculturation in a bicultural transaction model

Cultural stressors, identity development, and substance use attitudes among Hispanic immigrant adolescents

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