Institute for Human Rights, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Department of Anthropology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 27;19(9):5342. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095342.
Mexican-born women in the U.S. are at high risk of depression. While acculturation is the primary analytical framework used to study immigrant mental health, this research suffers from (1) a lack of specificity regarding how cultural models of living and being take shape among migrants converging in new destinations in the U.S., and (2) methods to empirically capture the impact of cultural positioning on individual health outcomes. Instead of relying on proxy measures of age at arrival and time in the U.S. to indicate where an individual is located on the acculturation spectrum, this study uses cultural consensus analysis to derive the substance and structure of a cultural model for (the good life) among Mexican immigrant women in Birmingham, Alabama, and then assesses the extent to which respondents are aligned with the model in their everyday lives. This measure of 'cultural consonance' is explored as a moderating variable between age at arrival in the U.S. and number of depressive symptoms. Results demonstrate that for those who arrived at an older age, those with lower consonance are at the highest risk for depression, while those who are more aligned with are at lower risk.
美国的墨西哥裔女性患抑郁症的风险很高。虽然文化适应是研究移民心理健康的主要分析框架，但这项研究存在以下问题：（1）对于在新的美国目的地融合的移民中，生活和存在的文化模式是如何形成的，缺乏具体的说明；（2）缺乏方法来从经验上捕捉文化定位对个人健康结果的影响。本研究没有依赖到达美国的年龄和在美国的时间等间接指标来表示个人在文化适应谱上的位置，而是使用文化共识分析来得出阿拉巴马州伯明翰的墨西哥移民女性（美好生活）的文化模型的实质和结构，然后评估受访者在日常生活中与该模型的一致性程度。这种“文化和谐”的衡量标准被视为到达美国的年龄和抑郁症状数量之间的调节变量。研究结果表明，对于那些年龄较大到达美国的人来说，那些一致性较低的人患抑郁症的风险最高，而那些与模型更一致的人则风险较低。
