Verile Michael G, Ertl Melissa M, Dillon Frank R, De La Rosa Mario
Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York.
Department of Counseling and Counseling Psychology, Arizona State University.
Transl Issues Psychol Sci. 2019 Mar;5(1):91-110. doi: 10.1037/tps0000185.
Little is empirically known about how acculturative stress soon after immigration is influenced by immigrants' receiving neighborhood context. In the present study, we investigated mediating effects of receiving community context on associations between social and cultural factors and acculturative stress among Latina young adults during their initial months in the United States. The sample included Latina women aged 18-23 years old who immigrated to the United States approximately 11.5 months prior to assessment ( = 530). Data collected included measures of social and cultural factors (employment status, childhood socioeconomic status, education, time in the United States, acculturation, ethnic identity, and immigration status), perceptions of receiving community context (supportive acts of neighboring, neighborhood annoyance, neighborhood attachment, weak social ties, and more neighborhood stress), and acculturative stress. Path modeling tested study hypotheses. Participant reports of higher acculturative stress were directly associated with less neighborhood attachment, weak social ties, more neighborhood stress, more time in the United States, higher levels of ethnic society immersion, lower levels of dominant society immersion, higher levels of ethnic identity commitment, and lower levels of ethnic identity exploration. The positive relation between ethnic identity commitment and acculturative stress was mediated by more neighborhood stress. Weak social ties were another receiving community factor that mediated positive relations between more ethnic society immersion and acculturative stress. Psychological interventions targeting acculturative stress and future research should consider addressing receiving neighborhood context to potentially relieve stress soon after immigration among Latina young adult immigrants.
关于移民后不久的文化适应压力如何受到移民所融入社区环境的影响，目前实证研究所知甚少。在本研究中，我们调查了在美国最初几个月里，融入社区环境对拉丁裔年轻成年人社会文化因素与文化适应压力之间关联的中介作用。样本包括18 - 23岁的拉丁裔女性，她们在评估前约11.5个月移民到美国（n = 530）。收集的数据包括社会文化因素（就业状况、童年社会经济地位、教育程度、在美国的时间、文化适应、族群认同和移民身份）、对融入社区环境的认知（邻里支持行为、邻里烦恼、邻里依恋、薄弱的社会关系和更多邻里压力）以及文化适应压力的测量。路径模型检验了研究假设。参与者报告的较高文化适应压力与较少的邻里依恋、薄弱的社会关系、更多的邻里压力、在美国更长的时间、更高的族群社会融入水平、较低的主流社会融入水平、更高的族群认同承诺水平以及较低的族群认同探索水平直接相关。族群认同承诺与文化适应压力之间的正向关系由更多的邻里压力介导。薄弱的社会关系是另一个融入社区因素，它介导了更多族群社会融入与文化适应压力之间的正向关系。针对文化适应压力的心理干预以及未来研究应考虑关注融入社区环境，以可能缓解拉丁裔年轻成年移民在移民后不久的压力。
