Reserves and their role in protecting against anxiety and depressive symptoms among undocumented migrants undergoing regularization.

ABSTRACT: Resources help individual to function in everyday life, while reserves, a specific type of resources, help them to overcome shock and stress. Evidence is scarce about whether reserves (be they cognitive, economic or relational) protect people's mental health in situations of temporary stress. Based on a cohort study following undocumented migrants undergoing a stressful life course transition (regularisation with local authorities), we identified which resources and reserves, and which types, better protect mental health. To examine whether reserves, and which types, are prospectively associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms, whether this association is independent of resources, and whether reserves modify the effect of regularisation on anxiety and depressive symptoms. A two-wave c

SUBMITTER: Cullati S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11850867 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature