Immigration Enforcement Fear and Anxiety in Latinx High School Students: The Indirect Effect of Perceived Discrimination
| Autor: | Natalia Giraldo-Santiago, Jodi Berger Cardoso, Anjely Huertas, Randy Capps, Nubia A. Mayorga, Kalina M. Brabeck, Tzuan Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Anxiety Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Immigration policy 030225 pediatrics medicine Humans Social position 030212 general & internal medicine Child Students Enforcement media_common Schools Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Rhode Island Fear Emigration and Immigration Texas Mental health Somatic anxiety Psychiatry and Mental health Harm Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Adolescent Health. 68:961-968 |
| ISSN: | 1054-139X |
| Popis: | Purpose Immigration enforcement policies and negative rhetoric about immigrants harm the psychological well-being of Latinx youth in immigrant families, particularly those who are most vulnerable because of their own or their loved ones' legal status. According to the Integrative Model for the Study of Developmental Competencies among Minority Children, discrimination may be one pathway to explain how vulnerability to restrictive immigration policies affects Latinx youth mental health. Methods We collected data from 306 Latinx high school students from immigrant families in Harris County, Texas, and Rhode Island to (1) determine the direct effect of immigration enforcement fear (a proxy for the social position of vulnerable legal status) on adolescents' anxiety; (2) explore the effect of immigration enforcement fear on anxiety through the pathway of perceived discrimination; and (3) test whether the different enforcement climates in the two study sites moderate these pathways. Total anxiety and subscales measuring separation, social, school, generalized, and somatic anxiety subtypes were analyzed. Results Immigration enforcement fear was related to increased somatic and separation anxiety in both first- and second-generation Latinx adolescents. Perceived discrimination partially mediated the association between immigration enforcement fear and separation and somatic anxiety; data collection site did not moderate these effects. Conclusions Immigration policies and rhetoric have psychological consequences. Although the adolescents in our study face multiple stressors, immigration enforcement fear may heighten their perception of discrimination, in turn, likely elevating their physiological and family separation anxiety. |
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