title: Racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of internalizing symptoms: do Latin-American immigrant show more symptomatology than Spanish native-born adolescents?
abstract: This study mainly compared the prevalence of internalizing symptoms of 834 Spanish and 159 Latin-American immigrant adolescents. Participants completed self-report measures about depression, anxiety and somatic symptoms and a socio-demographic questionnaire. The results indicated that being Latin-American was associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms and being female was related to higher depressive and anxiety symptoms. Gender differences were more prevalent in Spaniards than in Latinos, with girls showing more symptoms than boys. High socio-economic status was negatively related to depressive symptoms and anxiety. The results may alert clinicians of the importance of assessing depressive symptoms in Latino adolescents in order to treat this group of youths effectively.
authors: Department de Psicologia Clínica i de la Salut, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
authors: Kelly
authors: K
authors: Romero-Acosta
authors: Eva
authors: E
authors: Penelo
authors: Zahra
authors: Z
authors: Noorian
authors: Estrella
authors: E
authors: Ferreira
authors: Edelmira
authors: E
authors: Domènech-Llaberia
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012737:Sex Factors; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology
keywords: adolescence; anxiety; depression; ethnicity; physical symptoms