Associations of household and neighborhood contexts and hair cortisol among adolescents from low-income Mexican immigrant families
| Autor: | Ip, Ka I, Wen, Wen, Sim, Lester, Chen, Shanting, Kim, Su Yeong |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| DOI: | 10.18128/mpc2023-01 |
| Popis: | Although neighborhood contexts are upstream determinants of health, how neighborhood contexts “get under the skin” is unclear, especially among Mexican low-income immigrant youth who are disproportionally concentrated in highly disadvantaged yet coethnic neighborhoods. The current study examined associations between household and neighborhood socioeconomic status, neighborhood racial-ethnic and immigrant structuring and hair cortisol concentration (HCC) – a physiological index of chronic stress response - among Mexican-origin American adolescents from low-income immigrant families. Methods. 297 (54.20% female; Mage = 17.61, SD = .93) Mexican-origin adolescents’ hair cortisol were collected and residential addresses were geocoded and merged with the American Community Survey. Results. Neighborhoods with higher Hispanic and foreign-born residents were associated with higher neighborhood disadvantage, whereas neighborhoods with higher white residents were associated with higher neighborhood affluence. Mexican-origin adolescents living in neighborhood with a higher proportion of Hispanic residents showed lower levels of HCC, consistent with the protective role of ethnic enclave. In contrast, adolescents living in more affluence neighborhoods showed higher levels of HCC, possibly reflecting a physiological toll. No association was found between household SES and HCC. Conclusions. Findings infer that relocating low-income racial-ethnic minorized families to more affluent neighborhoods without understanding its racial-ethnic structuring and providing socio-cultural support could backfire. Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series |
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