The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2019 Aug;48(8):1592-1604. doi: 10.1007/s10964-019-01037-8. Epub 2019 May 27.
Shift-&-persist is a coping strategy that has been shown to lead to positive health outcomes in low-SES youth but has not yet been examined with respect to psychological health. This study tests whether the shift-&-persist coping strategy works in tandem with ethnic-racial identity to protect against depressive symptoms in the face of two uncontrollable stressors: economic hardship and peer discrimination. In a sample of 175 Latinx youth (51.4% female; M = 12.9), shift-&-persist buffered the positive relation between economic hardship and depressive symptoms. In terms of peer discrimination, among youth who reported little use of shift and persist, discrimination was related to higher depressive symptoms, whereas youth who reported higher amounts of shift and persist (at and above the mean) were protected and did not evidence this association. However, among youth with high ethnic-racial identity, shift-&-persist failed to protect against the deleterious association between peer discrimination and depressive symptoms. These findings suggest that shift-&-persist is protective for Latinx youth, although the context in which it is protective changes based on the racialized/non-racialized nature of the stressor.
转移-坚持是一种应对策略，已被证明可导致社会经济地位较低的年轻人获得积极的健康结果，但尚未针对心理健康进行研究。本研究检验了在面临两种不可控压力源（经济困难和同伴歧视）时，转移-坚持应对策略是否与种族认同一起发挥作用，以预防抑郁症状。在 175 名拉丁裔青年（51.4%为女性；M=12.9）的样本中，转移-坚持缓冲了经济困难与抑郁症状之间的正相关关系。就同伴歧视而言，在报告很少使用转移和坚持的年轻人中，歧视与更高的抑郁症状有关，而报告更多使用转移和坚持（高于平均值）的年轻人则受到保护，没有表现出这种关联。然而，在具有高度种族认同的年轻人中，转移-坚持并不能防止同伴歧视与抑郁症状之间的有害关联。这些发现表明，转移-坚持对拉丁裔青年具有保护作用，尽管它的保护作用的背景取决于压力源的种族化/非种族化性质。
