Latinx families are increasing in the population in the United States and have documented mental health concerns. Much remains to be understood about mental health predictors within this population. The present study aimed to help fill this gap and offer an in-depth assessment of psychopathology within a large (N = 330) sample of Latinx mothers and youth by exploring associations between sociodemographic risk, attachment relationship quality, and mental health. Demographic risk was not associated with youth or maternal psychopathology, but attachment relationship quality was associated with all indices of psychopathology in youth and mothers. The interaction between demographic risk and psychopathology only added to the prediction of maternal depression, revealing a pattern wherein maternal closeness was associated with lower depression at low and mean but not high levels of demographic risk. We discuss these findings in terms of the importance of supporting parent–child relationships in this population.

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Más Fuertes Juntos：依恋关系质量，而不是人口统计学风险，可以预测拉丁裔母子二人的精神病理学

拉丁裔家庭在美国的人口中不断增加，并记录了心理健康问题。关于这一人群中的心理健康预测因素还有很多需要了解。本研究旨在帮助填补这一空白，并在大 ( N)范围内对精神病理学进行深入评估。 = 330) 通过探索社会人口风险、依恋关系质量和心理健康之间的关联，对拉丁裔母亲和青年进行抽样调查。人口统计学风险与青年或母亲的精神病理学无关，但依恋关系质量与青年和母亲的所有精神病理学指标相关。人口统计学风险和精神病理学之间的相互作用仅增加了对孕产妇抑郁症的预测，揭示了一种模式，即在低和平均但不高的人口统计学风险水平下，母亲亲近与较低的抑郁症相关。我们根据支持这一人群中亲子关系的重要性来讨论这些发现。