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- Title
Depression in Hispanic Adults Who Immigrated as Youth: Results from the National Latino and Asian American Study.
- Authors
Jaggers, Jeremiah; MacNeil, Gordon
- Abstract
Immigrant children are often subject to the same acculturation forces as adults, but their ability to adapt is shaped by the confluence of two divergent cultures-that of the parents and that of the new country. Parents often hold on to the expectations of their native culture, whereas society imposes a different and potentially conflicting set of cultural expectations on the immigrant child. This study describes the relationship between cultural adaptation and mental illness among Hispanic immigrants, with special attention given to those migrating at a young age. The authors examined how acculturation, acculturative stress, dissonant acculturation, discrimination, ethnic identity, family cohesion, and subjective social status affected depression in Hispanic immigrants who migrated before age eighteen. Data from the National Latino and Asian American Study, a nationally representative cross-sectional study, were used to perform recursive regression and logistic regression analyses. Results of the recursive regression demonstrated a strong relationship among number of depressive symptoms, dissonant acculturation, family cohesion, and acculturative stress. Logistic regression examining a diagnosis of major depressive episode did not reveal a similar relationship. Consistent with prior study, gender and subjective social status were predictive of a diagnosis of major depressive episode.
- Subjects
ADULTS; IMMIGRANT children; ACCULTURATION; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); LOGISTIC regression analysis; MENTAL health; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Best Practice in Mental Health, 2015, Vol 11, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1553-555X
- Publication type
Article