U.S. Mexican-origin young adults' mental health relative to interpersonal stressor transitions from childhood to adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study sought to describe latent transitions in developmentally and culturally salient interpersonal stressors from late childhood to late adolescence and examine whether different transition patterns predicted early adult mental health problems.

Method

Data from four waves (Grades 5, 7, 10, 12) of a study of 749 U.S. Mexican-origin youth were used for a latent transition analysis (LTA) of family, peer, and community stressors; distal outcomes of externalizing and internalizing problems were measured 5 years after Grade 12. Latent class analysis (LCA) and LTA were conducted for investigating underlying subgroups of interpersonal stress at each wave and transitions between subtypes over waves.

Results

For the LCA, two latent classes emerged at all four w

SUBMITTER: Curlee AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9992444 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature