Coping and Culture: The Protective Effects of Shift-&-Persist and Ethnic-Racial Identity on Depressive Symptoms in Latinx Youth
Coping and Culture: The Protective Effects of Shift-&-Persist and Ethnic-Racial Identity on Depressive Symptoms in Latinx Youth
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DOI：
10.1007/s10964-019-01037-8
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发表时间：
2019-08-01
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Kiang, Lisa
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作者：
Christophe, N. Keita;Stein, Gabriela Livas;Kiang, Lisa
转变和坚持是一种应对策略，已被证明对社会经济地位低的青年产生积极的健康结果，但尚未对心理健康进行研究。本研究考察了在面对经济困难和同伴歧视这两种无法控制的压力源时，“转变-坚持”应对策略是否与族裔-种族认同协同作用，以防止抑郁症状。在175名拉丁裔青年（51.4%为女性；M-age=12.9）的样本中，转变与坚持缓冲了经济困难与抑郁症状之间的正相关关系。在同伴歧视方面，在报告很少使用shift和坚持的青少年中，歧视与较高的抑郁症状有关，而报告较高数量的shift和坚持（等于或高于平均值）的青少年受到保护，没有证据表明这种关联。然而，在具有高度民族-种族认同的青少年中，“转变与坚持”并不能避免同伴歧视与抑郁症状之间的有害联系。这些发现表明，转变和坚持对拉丁裔青年具有保护作用，尽管这种保护作用的背景是基于压力源的种族化/非种族化性质而变化的。
Shift-&-persist is a coping strategy that has been shown to lead to positive health outcomes in low-SES youth but has not yet been examined with respect to psychological health. This study tests whether the shift-&-persist coping strategy works in tandem with ethnic-racial identity to protect against depressive symptoms in the face of two uncontrollable stressors: economic hardship and peer discrimination. In a sample of 175 Latinx youth (51.4% female; M-age=12.9), shift-&-persist buffered the positive relation between economic hardship and depressive symptoms. In terms of peer discrimination, among youth who reported little use of shift and persist, discrimination was related to higher depressive symptoms, whereas youth who reported higher amounts of shift and persist (at and above the mean) were protected and did not evidence this association. However, among youth with high ethnic-racial identity, shift-&-persist failed to protect against the deleterious association between peer discrimination and depressive symptoms. These findings suggest that shift-&-persist is protective for Latinx youth, although the context in which it is protective changes based on the racialized/non-racialized nature of the stressor.