经济和社会文化压力源对贫困拉美裔移民儿童福祉的影响。
The effects of economic and sociocultural stressors on the well-being of children of Latino immigrants living in poverty.
机构信息
Department of Psychology, University of Denver.
Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
出版信息
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2017 Jan;23(1):15-26. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000111.
OBJECTIVE
This article explored whether preschoolers' physical (body mass index [BMI] and salivary cortisol levels) and psychological (internalizing/externalizing behaviors) well-being were predicted by economic hardship, as has been previously documented, and further, whether parental immigration-related stress and/or acculturation level moderated this relationship in low-income Latino families.
METHOD
The sample for the current study included 71 children of Latino immigrants (M = 4.46 years, SD = .62). Parents completed questionnaires assessing immigration-related stress, acculturation level, economic hardship, and child internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Child's BMI was also calculated from height and weight. Salivary cortisol samples were collected midmorning and midafternoon at home on non-child-care days. Salivary cortisol values were averaged and log transformed.
RESULTS
Children's salivary cortisol was predicted by an interaction between economic hardship and acculturation, with lower cortisol values except when children were protected by both lower acculturation and lower economic hardship. Both internalizing and externalizing behaviors were predicted by an interaction between economic hardship and immigration-related stress, with highest behaviors among children whose parents reported high levels of both economic hardship and immigration-related stress.
CONCLUSIONS
The effects of economic hardship on the well-being of young children of Latino immigrants may depend on concurrent experiences of sociocultural stress, with detrimental effects emerging for these outcomes only when economic hardship and sociocultural stressors are high. (PsycINFO Database Record
目的
本文探讨了在低收入拉美裔家庭中，经济困难是否如先前研究所述，预测了幼儿的身心健康（身体质量指数[BMI]和唾液皮质醇水平）和心理状况（内化/外化行为），以及父母的移民相关压力和/或文化适应水平是否调节了这种关系。
方法
本研究的样本包括 71 名拉丁裔移民的儿童（M = 4.46 岁，SD =.62）。父母完成了问卷，评估了与移民相关的压力、文化适应水平、经济困难以及儿童的内化和外化行为。还从身高和体重计算了儿童的 BMI。在非儿童照护日的家中，上午和下午中段采集唾液皮质醇样本。将唾液皮质醇值平均并对数转换。
结果
儿童的唾液皮质醇受到经济困难和文化适应之间相互作用的预测，只有在儿童受到较低的文化适应和较低的经济困难的双重保护时，皮质醇水平才会降低。内化和外化行为都受到经济困难和与移民相关的压力之间的相互作用的预测，当父母报告经济困难和与移民相关的压力都很高时，儿童的行为最多。
结论
经济困难对拉丁裔移民幼儿福祉的影响可能取决于同期的社会文化压力体验，只有当经济困难和社会文化压力源都很高时，这些结果才会产生不利影响。（PsycINFO 数据库记录
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