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- Title
Longitudinal Effects of Latino Parent Cultural Stress, Depressive Symptoms, and Family Functioning on Youth Emotional Well-Being and Health Risk Behaviors.
- Authors
Lorenzo‐Blanco, Elma I.; Meca, Alan; Unger, Jennifer B.; Romero, Andrea; Szapocznik, José; Piña‐Watson, Brandy; Cano, Miguel Ángel; Zamboanga, Byron L.; Baezconde‐Garbanati, Lourdes; Des Rosiers, Sabrina E.; Soto, Daniel W.; Villamar, Juan A.; Lizzi, Karina M.; Pattarroyo, Monica; Schwartz, Seth J.
- Abstract
U.S. Latino parents can face cultural stressors in the form of acculturative stress, perceived discrimination, and a negative context of reception. It stands to reason that these cultural stressors may negatively impact Latino youth's emotional well-being and health risk behaviors by increasing parents' depressive symptoms and compromising the overall functioning of the family. To test this possibility, we analyzed data from a six-wave longitudinal study with 302 recently immigrated (<5 years in the United States) Latino parents (74% mothers, Mage = 41.09 years) and their adolescent children (47% female, Mage = 14.51 years). Results of a cross-lagged analysis indicated that parent cultural stress predicted greater parent depressive symptoms (and not vice versa). Both parent cultural stress and depressive symptoms, in turn, predicted lower parent-reported family functioning, which mediated the links from parent cultural stress and depressive symptoms to youth alcohol and cigarette use. Parent cultural stress also predicted lower youth-reported family functioning, which mediated the link from parent cultural stress to youth self-esteem. Finally, mediation analyses indicated that parent cultural stress predicted youth alcohol use by a way of parent depressive symptoms and parent-reported family functioning. Our findings point to parent depressive symptoms and family functioning as key mediators in the links from parent cultural stress to youth emotional well-being and health risk behaviors. We discuss implications for research and preventive interventions.
- Subjects
MENTAL depression; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); ALCOHOL drinking; PSYCHOLOGY of Hispanic Americans; LONGITUDINAL method; PSYCHOLOGY of parents; RISK-taking behavior; SELF-perception; SMOKING; SAMPLE size (Statistics); FAMILY relations; WELL-being; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MINORITY stress; ADOLESCENCE; ADULTS
- Publication
Family Process, 2017, Vol 56, Issue 4, p981
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/famp.12258