Ethnic Identity and Perceived Stress Among Ethnically Diverse Immigrants.
Recent empirical research suggests that having a strong ethnic identity may be associated with reduced perceived stress. However, the relationship between perceived stress and ethnic identity has not been tested in a large and ethnically diverse sample of immigrants. This study utilized a multi-group latent class analysis of ethnic identity on a sample of first and second generation immigrants (N = 1603), to determine ethnic identity classifications, and their relation to perceived stress. A 4-class ethnic identity structure best fit the data for this immigrant sample, and the proportion within each class varied by ethnicity, but not immigrant generation. High ethnic identity was found to be protective against perceived stress, and this finding was invariant across ethnicity. This study extends the findings of previous research on the protective effect of ethnic identity against perceived stress to immigrant populations of diverse ethnic origins.
Department of Psychology, The City College of New York, CUNY, 160 Convent Avenue, NAC 7/120, New York, NY, 10031, USA. aespinosa@ccny.cuny.edu.
Adriana
0000-0003-1117-8595
A
Espinosa
Department of Psychology, The City College of New York, CUNY, 160 Convent Avenue, NAC 7/120, New York, NY, 10031, USA.
Aleksandr
A
Tikhonov
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Lauren M
LM
Ellman
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
David M
DM
Kern
Department of Psychology, The City College of New York, CUNY, 160 Convent Avenue, NAC 7/120, New York, NY, 10031, USA.|Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, USA.
Florence
F
Lui
Department of Psychology, The City College of New York, CUNY, 160 Convent Avenue, NAC 7/120, New York, NY, 10031, USA.|Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, USA.
Deidre
D
Anglin
D000293:Adolescent; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D057566:Self Report; D012933:Social Identification; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D055815:Young Adult
Ethnic Identity; Ethnic Minority; Immigrant; Immigrant generation; Perceived Stress
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