Bicultural stress and internalizing symptoms among U.S. Latinx youth: The moderating role of peer and parent support.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

U.S. Latinx youth are at increased risk for internalizing problems, perhaps due to high levels of bicultural stress. Taking a resilience perspective, this study examined peer and parent support as potential protective factors that might buffer the effects of bicultural stress on depression and anxiety symptoms among U.S. Latinx youth.

Method

Participants were 306 Midwestern U.S. Latinx adolescents (M age = 15.50%, 46.2% girls) and their primary caregivers who completed individual interviews. Measures included two types of cultural stress (acculturative and enculturative stress) and, for each type, distinguished the extent of exposure to stressors from the subjective intensity of stress reported.

Results

Results indicated that acculturative and enculturative

SUBMITTER: Wasserman AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8497401 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature