Adverse Childhood Experiences and Depressive Symptoms among Young Adult Hispanic Immigrants: Moderating and Mediating Effects of Distinct Facets of Acculturation Stress

Autor: Lilian Bravo, Gabriela A. Nagy, Allison McCord Stafford, Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, Brian E. McCabe
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Issues in mental health nursing. 43(3)
ISSN: 1096-4673
Popis: Hispanic immigrants experience more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and depressive symptom chronicity/severity than non-Hispanic peers. Acculturation stress relates to both depressive symptoms and ACEs, but the mechanism is not well-understood. We conducted a secondary data analysis of baseline data, from an ongoing longitudinal study to test theoretically-based mediating and moderating effects of acculturation stress on the relationship between ACEs and depression in a sample of young adult Hispanic immigrants (
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