University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, California, USA.
J Community Psychol. 2021 Aug;49(6):2086-2105. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22535. Epub 2021 Feb 26.
Latinx families are increasing in the population in the United States and have documented mental health concerns. Much remains to be understood about mental health predictors within this population. The present study aimed to help fill this gap and offer an in-depth assessment of psychopathology within a large (N = 330) sample of Latinx mothers and youth by exploring associations between sociodemographic risk, attachment relationship quality, and mental health. Demographic risk was not associated with youth or maternal psychopathology, but attachment relationship quality was associated with all indices of psychopathology in youth and mothers. The interaction between demographic risk and psychopathology only added to the prediction of maternal depression, revealing a pattern wherein maternal closeness was associated with lower depression at low and mean but not high levels of demographic risk. We discuss these findings in terms of the importance of supporting parent-child relationships in this population.
拉丁裔家庭在美国的人口中不断增加，并且有记录表明他们存在心理健康问题。在这个群体中，关于心理健康的预测因素还有很多需要了解。本研究旨在帮助填补这一空白，并通过探索社会人口风险、依恋关系质量与心理健康之间的关系，对拉丁裔母亲和青少年的大量（N=330）样本进行深入的精神病理学评估。人口统计学风险与青少年或母亲的精神病理学无关，但依恋关系质量与青少年和母亲的所有精神病理学指标都有关。人口统计学风险与精神病理学之间的相互作用仅增加了对母亲抑郁的预测，揭示了一种模式，即母亲的亲密程度与低和中等水平的人口统计学风险相关，但与高水平的人口统计学风险无关。我们根据支持该人群中亲子关系的重要性来讨论这些发现。
