Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 1120 NW 14th Street, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.
Behavioral Assessment, Inc, 291 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90211, USA.
Prev Sci. 2024 Feb;25(2):296-306. doi: 10.1007/s11121-022-01440-x. Epub 2022 Sep 27.
Latina/o/x face acculturative stressors which are unique to being an immigrant and/or racial/ethnic minority. Furthermore, Latina/o/x parents face an additional layer of stress related to parenting and family challenges. Little is known about how immigrant and non-immigrant parents cope with stress related to parenting and family stress and how these additional stressors impact parental mental health and substance use. The sample for this secondary data analysis included 1197 parents between 18 and 56 years of age. All analyses controlled for age, gender and number of persons living at home; for the immigrant subsample, we controlled for time in the USA and for the non-immigrant sample, we controlled for generational status. Analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between (1) acculturative stress and mental health and substance use and (2) parenting and family stress and mental health and substance use for immigrants and non-immigrants. Results of multivariate regression models revealed that acculturative stress was significantly associated with mental health, alcohol use, cigarette use, and other tobacco product use for both immigrant and non-immigrants. For both immigrants and non-immigrants, parenting stress and family stress were consistently associated with psychological distress. Parenting stress was associated with greater substance use, including cigarette, other tobacco use, and alcohol use. Given the different associations between acculturative, parenting, and family stress with mental health and substance use among immigrant and non-immigrant parents, family-based interventions should address these stressors to prevent poor health outcomes among Latina/o/x parents and their children.
拉丁裔/人/群体面临着作为移民和/或少数族裔所特有的文化适应压力。此外，拉丁裔/人/群体的父母还面临着与育儿和家庭挑战相关的额外压力。关于移民和非移民父母如何应对与育儿和家庭压力相关的压力，以及这些额外压力如何影响父母的心理健康和物质使用，知之甚少。这项二次数据分析的样本包括 1197 名 18 至 56 岁的父母。所有分析均控制了年龄、性别和居住在家中的人数；对于移民亚组，我们控制了在美国的时间；对于非移民样本，我们控制了代际地位。分析旨在检验（1）文化适应压力与心理健康和物质使用之间的关系，以及（2）育儿和家庭压力与心理健康和物质使用之间的关系，包括移民和非移民。多元回归模型的结果表明，文化适应压力与移民和非移民的心理健康、酒精使用、香烟使用和其他烟草制品使用均显著相关。对于移民和非移民来说，育儿压力和家庭压力与心理困扰始终相关。育儿压力与更大的物质使用有关，包括香烟、其他烟草制品和酒精使用。鉴于移民和非移民父母的文化适应、育儿和家庭压力与心理健康和物质使用之间存在不同的关联，基于家庭的干预措施应解决这些压力源，以防止拉丁裔/人/群体父母及其子女的健康状况不佳。
