Seth J Schwartz, Cory L Cobb, Alan Meca, Tara Bautista, Sumeyra Sahbaz, Aigerim Alpysbekova, Lawrence G Watkins, Lea Nehme, Byron L Zamboanga, Pablo Montero-Zamora, Maria Duque, Duyen H Vo, Yara Acaf, José Szapocznik
The present study examines the extent to which culturally stressful experiences may predict impaired well-being, increased internalizing symptoms (depression and anxiety), and increased externalizing problems (social aggression, physical aggression, and rule breaking) among a sample of Hispanic college students in Miami across a 12-day period. The predictive effects of cultural stressors on these outcomes were examined both (a) directly and (b) indirectly through daily fluctuations in students' personal identity synthesis and confusion...
March 28, 2024: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry