15776Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC, USA.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 12277Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Hisp Health Care Int. 2023 Mar;21(1):14-21. doi: 10.1177/15404153221088929. Epub 2022 Mar 23.
Latinx immigrants who migrate to the United States (US) as young children are more likely to experience depression than those who migrate later in life. Our purpose is to test three models that may explain the relationship between age of immigration and depressive symptoms among Latinx immigrants. A secondary analysis of baseline data from a community-based, longitudinal study of Latinx young adults in the US Southeast was conducted. Latinx immigrants who migrated before the age of 19 years ( = 157) were included, and path analysis was conducted. Age of immigration and depressive symptoms were negatively related ( = -0.19, = 0.08, = .015), while acculturative stress and depressive symptoms were positively related ( = 0.04, = 0.01, < .001). No significant indirect effects were found. Our results highlight the importance of assessing acculturative stress and age of immigration as social drivers of mental health in Latinx immigrant children.
拉丁裔移民如果在年幼时移民到美国(US),比那些以后移民的人更容易出现抑郁症状。我们的目的是测试三个可能解释拉丁裔移民的移民年龄与抑郁症状之间关系的模型。对美国东南部拉丁裔青年的一项基于社区的纵向研究的基线数据进行了二次分析。研究纳入了 19 岁之前( = 157)移民的拉丁裔移民,并进行了路径分析。移民年龄与抑郁症状呈负相关( = -0.19, = 0.08, = .015),而文化适应压力与抑郁症状呈正相关( = 0.04, = 0.01, < .001)。没有发现显著的间接影响。我们的研究结果强调了评估文化适应压力和移民年龄作为拉丁裔移民儿童心理健康的社会驱动因素的重要性。