The impact of acculturative stress and daily hassles on pre-adolescent psychological adjustment: examining anxiety symptoms.
Acculturative stress in relation to anxiety symptoms has not been examined empirically in young Hispanic populations. The present study, conducted with 138 pre-adolescent Hispanic youngsters, investigated this relationship. The findings suggested that acculturative stress was related to physiological, concentration, and worrisome symptoms of anxiety. After decomposing acculturative stress, it became evident that perceived discrimination accounted for a large proportion of the variance in the relationship between acculturative stress and anxiety. Immigration-related stress was mostly associated with worry symptoms. Finally, total daily hassles were an independent predictor of concentration and physiological anxiety symptoms. Implications for prevention interventions and future research are discussed.
Suarez-Morales
Lourdes
L
Center for Family Studies, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 1425 NW 10th Ave, Miami, FL 33136, USA. lsuarezmorales@bellsouth.net
Lopez
Barbara
B
D000069:Acculturation; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001007:Anxiety / Q000208:ethnology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires