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- Title
A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Legal Vulnerability, Trauma, and Psychological Wellbeing in Immigrant Caregivers and Youth.
- Authors
Roberg, Regina; Camargo, Tamara; Marks, Amy K.
- Abstract
(1) Background: Immigrant families in the U.S. face a myriad of migration-related stressors and trauma, and legal vulnerability can further compound such stressors, influencing both immigrant caregiver and child wellbeing. This study explored the relationships between legal vulnerability, trauma, and migration and their effects on caregiving, psychological distress, and resilience in immigrant families. (2) Methods: In total, 37 Latinx immigrant caregiver–child dyads from a community sample were interviewed and completed self-report measures on their experiences of migration, trauma, psychological functioning, and parent–child relationships. (3) Results: Using a community-based, sequential quantitative-qualitative design, person-centered analyses revealed two caregiver clusters: "Personalizing Stress" and "Meaning-making". Exemplar case analyses characterized differences between clusters, particularly related to trauma symptoms, in which the "meaning-making" cluster endorsed higher levels of psychological functioning and wellbeing compared to the "personalizing stress" cluster, in which the process of creating meaning from adversity appeared to function as a resilience resource for the "meaning-making" cluster. While most indicators of caregiver–child wellbeing were not correlated, family legal vulnerability was strongly correlated with high resilience in children. (4) Conclusions: Clinicians should attend to the resilience resources that immigrant families from legally vulnerable communities utilize, including meaning-making.
- Subjects
HONDURAS; GUATEMALA; UNITED States; ECUADOR; BRAZIL; EL Salvador; MEXICO; NEW England; POST-traumatic stress disorder; RISK assessment; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; FAMILY health; IMMIGRANTS; SELF-evaluation; EMIGRATION &; immigration; FEAR; SCALE analysis (Psychology); PEARSON correlation (Statistics); PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); DATA analysis; INTERVIEWING; PARENT-child relationships; QUESTIONNAIRES; HISPANIC Americans; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; IMMIGRATION law; EXPERIENCE; BURDEN of care; FAMILY systems theory; METROPOLITAN areas; RESEARCH methodology; STATISTICS; PSYCHOLOGY of caregivers; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; DATA analysis software; WELL-being; PSYCHOSOCIAL functioning; ADOLESCENCE; CHILDREN
- Publication
Trauma Care, 2024, Vol 4, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
2673-866X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/traumacare4010006