Trajectories of depression for Latino immigrant adolescents: The influence of individual, family, and sociocultural factors.

ABSTRACT: Latino immigrant adolescents represent a high-risk group for developing depression. Such risk for depression becomes more salient in emerging destination contexts (e.g., Oregon) where immigrant youth face considerably more stressors compared to traditional contexts (e.g., Texas, New York, and California). However, no study to date has considered how depression unfolds over time among Latino immigrant youth in emerging contexts. Using data from a three-wave prospective longitudinal design across 3 years, we employed latent growth curve (LGC) modeling to assess depression trajectories among 217 Latino immigrant families in the emerging context of western Oregon. Moreover, we assessed the influence of salient predictors on these trajectories across individual (gender and time in U.S. residenc

SUBMITTER: Cobb CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9881842 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature