Age at Arrival and Depression among Mexican Immigrant Women in Alabama: The Moderating Role of Culture

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dc.contributor.authorAndrews, Courtney
dc.contributor.authorOths, Kathryn S.
dc.contributor.authorDressler, William W.
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Birmingham
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-28T19:35:40Z
dc.date.available2023-09-28T19:35:40Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractMexican-born women in the U.S. are at high risk of depression. While acculturation is the primary analytical framework used to study immigrant mental health, this research suffers from (1) a lack of specificity regarding how cultural models of living and being take shape among migrants converging in new destinations in the U.S., and (2) methods to empirically capture the impact of cultural positioning on individual health outcomes. Instead of relying on proxy measures of age at arrival and time in the U.S. to indicate where an individual is located on the acculturation spectrum, this study uses cultural consensus analysis to derive the substance and structure of a cultural model for la buena vida (the good life) among Mexican immigrant women in Birmingham, Alabama, and then assesses the extent to which respondents are aligned with the model in their everyday lives. This measure of 'cultural consonance' is explored as a moderating variable between age at arrival in the U.S. and number of depressive symptoms. Results demonstrate that for those who arrived at an older age, those with lower consonance are at the highest risk for depression, while those who are more aligned with la buena vida are at lower risk.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationAndrews, C., Oths, K., & Dressler, W. (2022). Age at Arrival and Depression among Mexican Immigrant Women in Alabama: The Moderating Role of Culture. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Vol. 19, Issue 9, p. 5342). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095342
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph19095342
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7832-457X
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6348-3201
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/11499
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectcultural consonance
dc.subjectacculturation
dc.subjectimmigration
dc.subjectdepression
dc.subjectmental health
dc.subjectMexican immigrant women
dc.subjectPSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS
dc.subjectACCULTURATIVE STRESS
dc.subjectUNITED-STATES
dc.subjectHEALTH
dc.subjectCONSONANCE
dc.subjectSYMPTOMS
dc.subjectCONSENSUS
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectORIGIN
dc.subjectEnvironmental Sciences
dc.subjectPublic, Environmental & Occupational Health
dc.titleAge at Arrival and Depression among Mexican Immigrant Women in Alabama: The Moderating Role of Cultureen_US
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