Generational Immigration Status Modifies the Association Between Psychosocial Distress and Substance Use Among Alternative High School Students.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Alternative high schools (AHS) are designed to provide individualized education, more flexible scheduling, and smaller class sizes for students referred out of traditional high school. AHS students report higher levels of substance use (SU) and face disproportionately higher levels of trauma and toxic stress than their traditional high school peers. We sought to examine whether generational immigration (GenIm) status modifies the association of mental health and SU among AHS students using a longitudinal study of 1,060 Southern California AHS students.

Methods

Subscales from the 21-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scale were administered. Effect modification was examined by GenIm status defined as first generation (born outside of the United States), second generation

SUBMITTER: Ormiston CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12341841 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature