Takeuchi David T, Hong Seunghye, Gile Krista, Alegría Margarita
University of Washington.
Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School.
Res Hum Dev. 2007;4(1-2):49-69. doi: 10.1080/15427600701480998. Epub 2007 Dec 5.
In this article, we use age of immigration as a proxy for the developmental context for understanding the association between immigration experiences and mental health. Generation defines the context under which immigrants arrive in the United States. We drew data from the National Latino and Asian American Study ( = 2,095), the first ever study conducted on the mental health of a national sample of Asian Americans. Our findings reveal that age of immigration is linked to lifetime and 12-month rates of psychiatric disorder: Immigrants who arrive earlier in life are more likely to have both lifetime and 12-month disorders. U.S. born and immigrants who arrive as children are much more likely to have a mental disorder in their lifetimes than other immigrant generations.
在本文中，我们将移民年龄作为发展背景的一个替代指标，以理解移民经历与心理健康之间的关联。代际定义了移民抵达美国时的背景。我们从全国拉丁裔和亚裔美国人研究（样本量 = 2095）中提取数据，这是有史以来首次针对亚裔美国人全国样本的心理健康进行的研究。我们的研究结果表明，移民年龄与终生及12个月内的精神疾病发病率有关：早年抵达的移民更有可能同时患有终生和12个月内的精神疾病。在美国出生的人和儿童时期抵达的移民一生中患精神疾病的可能性比其他移民代际要高得多。
