Toward a Typology of Acculturative Stress: Results Among Hispanic Immigrants in the United States

Christopher P. Salas-Wright; Eden H. Robles; Michael G. Vaughn; David Córdova; Rafael E. Pérez-Figueroa

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Toward a Typology of Acculturative Stress: Results Among Hispanic Immigrants in the United States

Christopher P. Salas-Wright, Eden H. Robles, Michael G. Vaughn, David Córdova, Rafael E. Pérez-Figueroa

Health, Behavior, and Society

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to identify latent classes of Hispanic immigrants on the basis of acculturative stress and, in turn, examine the links between membership in acculturative stress classes and the prevalence of mental disorders. We use latent class analysis (LCA) and multinomial logistic regression with data from a population-based study of Hispanic immigrants in the United States (n = 1,630). Classes were identified as “Low Acculturative Stress” (38.40%); “Social and Linguistic Stress” (32.27%); “Acculturative Stress, No Fear of Deportation” (20.06%); and “Acculturative Stress, Fear of Deportation” (9.26%). Members of the “Acculturative Stress, Fear of Deportation” class were significantly more likely than members of the “Low Acculturative Stress” class to meet criteria for generalized anxiety disorder (risk ratios [RR] = 3.55, 95% confidence interval [CI] [1.00, 12.56]). The present study represents an important step in the development of a typology of acculturative stress among Hispanic immigrants in the United States.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	223-242
Number of pages	20
Journal	Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
Volume	37
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0739986315573967
State	Published - May 9 2015

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The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported in part by Grants R25 DA026401 (PI: Valdez) and R25 DA030310 (PI: Anthony) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. Support was also received from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program (1L60MD006269-01).

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Keywords

Hispanic Americans
acculturation
acculturative stress
clinical disorders
immigrant
personality disorders
substance use

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Social Psychology
Cultural Studies
Anthropology
Linguistics and Language

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