Disentangling relationships between bicultural stress and mental well-being among Latinx immigrant adolescents.

Romero, Andrea J.; Piña‐Watson, Brandy; Stevens, Angela K.; Schwartz, Seth J.; Unger, Jennifer B.; Zamboanga, Byron L.; Szapocznik, José; Lorenzo‐Blanco, Elma I.; Cano, Miguel Ángel; Meca, Alan; Baezconde‐Garbanati, Lourdes; Córdova, David; Villamar, Juan A.; Soto, Daniel W.; Lizzi, Karina M.; Rosiers, Sabrina E. Des; Pattarroyo, Monica; Oshri, Assaf

doi:10.1037/ccp0000466

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“…In turn, these cultural stressors can exert deleterious effects on the mental health of firstand second-generation immigrants, such as increasing symptoms of depression and anxiety and compromising well-being (A. Romero et al, 2020). Cultural stressors therefore represent sources of pressure that contribute to psychological impairment in the lives of firstand second-generation immigrants.…”

Section: Cultural Stress Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural stress, personal identity development, and mental health among U.S. Hispanic college students.

Schwartz,

Cobb,

Meca

et al. 2024

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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The present study examines the extent to which culturally stressful experiences may predict impaired well-being, increased internalizing symptoms (depression and anxiety), and increased externalizing problems (social aggression, physical aggression, and rule breaking) among a sample of Hispanic college students in Miami across a 12-day period. The predictive effects of cultural stressors on these outcomes were examined both (a) directly and (b) indirectly through daily fluctuations in students’ personal identity synthesis and confusion. Results indicated direct predictive effects of cultural stress on four forms of well-being (self-esteem, life satisfaction, psychological well-being, and eudaimonic well-being), on symptoms of depression and anxiety, and on physical aggression and rule breaking. The predictive effects of cultural stress on all four forms of well-being and on symptoms of depression and anxiety were partially mediated through daily fluctuations (instability) in students’ sense of personal identity synthesis. Findings were consistent across genders and between U.S.- and foreign-born students. Results are discussed in terms of implications for intervention and for policy.

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Section: Cultural Stress Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural stress, personal identity development, and mental health among U.S. Hispanic college students.

Schwartz,

Cobb,

Meca

et al. 2024

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…The limited studies and mixed findings speak to a need to investigate the within-person associations from a holistic perspective by investigating cultural stressors derived from both inferiority and cultural foreignness dimensions and examining their associations with internalizing symptoms. Moreover, the prior study was conducted within a 2-year framework, during early adolescence (Romero et al, 2020), and was thus unable to capture the fluctuation of cultural stressors across the full course of adolescence (Fuhrmann et al, 2015). To promote a more nuanced understanding of the influence of cultural stressors across the course of adolescence from a developmental perspective, a multiwave longitudinal study is needed to examine both (a) whether adolescents who experience more cultural stressors overall across the course of adolescence exhibit higher internalizing symptoms overall, compared with others, and (b) whether a given adolescent would report increased internalizing symptoms when that adolescent experiences increased cultural stressors relative to the adolescent's own average level during the course of adolescence.…”

Section: Cultural Stressors and Adolescents' Internalizing Symptomsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, one previous study collected four waves of longitudinal data across 2 years and revealed that experiencing more discrimination than one's own average level is related to more depressive symptoms (Lavner et al, 2022). However, Romero et al (2020) found little evidence of the within‐person impact of cultural stressors on depressive symptoms during the process of adapting to U.S. culture. The limited studies and mixed findings speak to a need to investigate the within‐person associations from a holistic perspective by investigating cultural stressors derived from both inferiority and cultural foreignness dimensions and examining their associations with internalizing symptoms.…”

Section: Cultural Stressors and Adolescents' Internalizing Symptomsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural stressors, internalizing symptoms, and parent–child alienation among Mexican‐origin adolescents

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The current study investigated the relation of various cultural stressors, parent-child alienation, and Mexican-origin adolescents' internalizing symptoms at both between-and within-person levels across the course of adolescence. Background: Positive parent-child relationships can be a critical buffer against cultural stressors for Mexican-origin adolescents. However, it is unclear whether low levels of parent-child alienation (a) buffer the negative effects of different types of cultural stressors on internalizing symptoms and (b) function at the individual level more generally or during specific periods when adolescents experience high cultural stressors. Method: The current study used a three-wave longitudinal dataset of 604 Mexican-origin adolescents (Wave 1: M age = 12.41, SD = 0.97, 54% female, 75% born in the United States) and conducted multilevel regression analysis. Results: At the between-person level, overall low parentchild alienation buffered the adverse effects of ethnic discrimination on anxiety and cultural misfit on depressive symptoms. There were no significant within-person-level interactions of parent-child alienation and cultural stressors on adolescent internalizing symptoms. Implication: The findings suggest that interventions should aim to reduce parent-child alienation throughout the course of adolescence to alleviate the impact of cultural stressors on internalizing symptoms among Mexican-origin adolescents.

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“…An RI‐CLPM isolates between‐person stability from within‐person change via the inclusion of correlated random intercepts (Hamaker et al., 2015). Such a separation makes the RI‐CLPM an attractive approach toward modelling psychological processes, as it allows researchers to focus on the impact temporary departures from a person's trait‐level mean have on within‐person changes at later assessment occasions (e.g., Bahamondes et al., 2021; Marques et al., 2021; Masselink et al., 2018; Romero et al., 2020). That said, research has yet to utilise this method to longitudinally investigate the between‐ and within‐person effects of IRD and GRD on individual‐ and group‐based outcomes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the between‐ and within‐person effects of relative deprivation: Results from a 7‐year longitudinal panel sample

Lilly

Sibley

Osborne

2022

Euro J Social Psych

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Despite the extensive literature on relative deprivation theory, few studies have examined the longitudinal effects of individual‐ and group‐based relative deprivation (IRD and GRD, respectively) on individual‐ and group‐based outcomes, nor has research investigated the between‐person and within‐person effects of these constructs. Using two random intercept cross‐lagged panel models, we address these oversights by estimating the between‐person and average annual within‐person associations IRD and GRD have with psychological distress and collective action support in a nation‐wide longitudinal panel sample (N = 64,607). As expected, IRD and GRD were more strongly associated with psychological distress and collective action support, respectively, at the between‐person level and contemporaneously at the within‐person level. However, contrary to expectations, temporary departures in IRD and GRD predicted within‐person increases in collective action support and psychological distress, respectively. These results raise questions about how and when people respond to inequality and provide the foundations for future longitudinal research.

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Disentangling relationships between bicultural stress and mental well-being among Latinx immigrant adolescents.

Cited by 21 publications

References 68 publications

Cultural stress, personal identity development, and mental health among U.S. Hispanic college students.

Cultural stress, personal identity development, and mental health among U.S. Hispanic college students.

Cultural stressors, internalizing symptoms, and parent–child alienation among Mexican‐origin adolescents

Examining the between‐ and within‐person effects of relative deprivation: Results from a 7‐year longitudinal panel sample

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