首页
按字顺浏览
期刊浏览
卷期浏览
Immigration, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms in a Mexican-American Community
|
Immigration, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms in a Mexican-American Community
作者:
JACQUELINE GOLDING,
M AUDREY BURNAM,
期刊:
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
(OVID Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 178,
issue 3
页码: 161-171
ISSN:0022-3018
年代: 1990
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
This study assessed levels of depressive symptomatology in a household probability sample of Mexico-born (N- 706) and U.S.-born (N=538) Mexican Americans. We hypothesized that immigration status differences in acculturation, strain, social resources, and social conflict, as well as differences in the associations of these variables with depression, would account for differences in depression between U.S.-born and Mexico-born respondents. U.S.-born Mexican Americans had higher depression scores than those born in Mexico. When cultural and social psychological variables were controlled in a multiple regression analysis, the immigrant status difference persisted. Tests of interaction terms suggested greater vulnerability to the effects of low acculturation and low educational attainment among the U.S.-born relative to those born in Mexico; however, the immigrant status difference persisted after controlling for these interactions. Unmeasured variables such as selective migration of persons with better coping skills, selective return of depressed immigrants, or generational differences in social comparison processes may account for the immigration status difference.
点击下载:
PDF
(1227KB)
返 回
|
|