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Acculturative stress, emotion regulation, and affective symptomology among Latino/a college students

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Mayorga, Nubia A., Jardin, Charles, Bakhshaie, Jafar, Garey, Lorra, Viana, Andres G., Cardoso, Jodi Berger, Zvolensky, Michael·2018·Journal of Counseling Psychology

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Although recent work has highlighted the relation of acculturative stress with depression and anxiety symptoms specifically among Latino/a university students, the potential mechanisms underlying these associations remain relatively unknown. The present study aims to examine difficulties in emotion regulation as an explanatory factor in the relation of acculturative stress with symptoms of depression, suicidality, social anxiety, and anxious arousal. A sample of 448 Latino/a college students (Mage = 20.67 years, SD = 1.96; 78.3% female) were recruited from a southwestern public university through an online, self-report survey. Indirect effects of acculturative stress via difficulties in emotion regulation on all outcomes were observed among males and females. Follow-up analyses showed the indirect effect on all dependent variables among Latino men occurred exclusively through lack of access to emotion regulation strategies, whereas the indirect effects among Latina women occurred through a different subfactor of difficulties in emotion regulation for each dependent variable. These findings suggest the potential clinical utility of assessing and targeting acculturative stress and difficulties in emotion regulation in the treatment of depression and anxiety problems among Latino/a college students. (PsycINFO Database Record

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    The Results (Suicidality; page unavailable) report an indirect association between acculturative stress and suicidality symptoms through difficulties in emotion regulation among Latino/a college students. The paper does not establish that emotion dysregulation causes suicidal ideation or behavior to develop, or that the finding applies beyond this population. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
Mayorga, N. A., Jardin, C., Bakhshaie, J., Garey, L., Viana, A. G., Cardoso, J. B., & Zvolensky, M.
Affiliations
University of Houston (US)
Venue
Journal of Counseling Psychology
Published
2018-03
Volume
65
Issue
2
Pages
247-258
ISSN
  • 0022-0167 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-2168
OpenAlex
W2791490089
Cited by
57
References
73
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 7
FWCI
14.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Journal of Counseling Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH076629)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
acculturative stress, emotion regulation, depression, anxiety, suicidality, social anxiety, anxious arousal, gender differences, indirect effects
MeSH terms
Acculturation, Adolescent, Adult, Affective Symptoms, Anxiety, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depression, Emotions, Female, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Surveys and Questionnaires, Stress, Psychological, Students, Universities, Young Adult, Self Report

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