title: Mexican-origin youths' trajectories of depressive symptoms: the role of familism values.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe Mexican-origin youths' trajectories of depressive symptoms from early to late adolescence and examine the role of three aspects of familism values: supportive, obligation, and referent.
  
  
  METHODS
  Mexican-origin adolescents (N = 492) participated in home interviews and provided self-reports of depressive symptoms and cultural values at four assessments across an 8-year span. Using a cohort sequential design and accounting for the nesting within the 246 families (two youths per family), we examined depressive symptoms from ages 12 to 22 years and the within-person, between-sibling, and between-family effects of familism values.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mexican-origin males' depressive symptoms decreased across adolescence, whereas females' symptoms exhibited a cubic pattern of change. Results revealed that increases in supportive and referent familism values within individuals and across families were related to lower levels of depressive symptoms. Findings were most pronounced for referent familism values, as a between-sibling effect also emerged. Obligation familism values were not associated with depressive symptoms.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our findings provide important descriptive information about Mexican-origin youths' depressive symptoms and highlight the promotive role of familism values.
authors.affiliation: T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Electronic address: katharine.zeiders@asu.edu.
authors.forename: Katharine H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Zeiders
authors.forename: Kimberly A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Updegraff
authors.forename: Adriana J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Umaña-Taylor
authors.forename: Lorey A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Wheeler
authors.forename: Norma J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Perez-Brena
authors.forename: Sue A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005195:Family Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012737:Sex Factors; D012801:Sibling Relations / Q000208:ethnology; D012925:Social Conformity; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012944:Social Support; D012945:Social Values / Q000208:ethnology*; D015206:Southwestern United States; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cohort-sequential design; Cultural values; Depressive symptoms; Familism values; Mexican-origin adolescents