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- Title
Immigrants from Mexico experience serious behavioral and psychiatric problems at far lower rates than US-born Americans.
- Authors
Salas-Wright, Christopher; Vaughn, Michael; Goings, Trenette; Salas-Wright, Christopher P; Vaughn, Michael G; Goings, Trenette Clark
- Abstract
<bold>Purpose: </bold>To examine the prevalence of self-reported criminal and violent behavior, substance use disorders, and mental disorders among Mexican immigrants vis-à-vis the US born.<bold>Methods: </bold>Study findings are based on national data collected between 2012 and 2013. Binomial logistic regression was employed to examine the relationship between immigrant status and behavioral/psychiatric outcomes.<bold>Results: </bold>Mexican immigrants report substantially lower levels of criminal and violent behaviors, substance use disorders, and mental disorders compared to US-born individuals.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>While some immigrants from Mexico have serious behavioral and psychiatric problems, Mexican immigrants in general experience such problems at far lower rates than US-born individuals.
- Subjects
MEXICO; UNITED States; MENTAL illness; IMMIGRANTS; DISEASE prevalence; CRIMINAL behavior; SELF-evaluation; DISEASES; STATISTICS on Hispanic Americans; PSYCHOLOGY of Hispanic Americans; PSYCHOLOGY of immigrants; RESEARCH funding; SUBSTANCE abuse; VIOLENCE
- Publication
Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2017, Vol 52, Issue 10, p1325
- ISSN
0933-7954
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00127-017-1425-6