ABSTRACT

Objective

There is a well-documented relationship between discrimination and increases in internalizing symptoms among rural Latinx youth. Among numerous assets in these adolescents’ lives, family resilience emerges as a culturally relevant and robust protective factor. However, it is still unclear whether family resilience is equally protective across different internalizing symptom clusters and whether this buffering effect is independent of other interconnected resilience sources.

Method

Latinx adolescents from an underserved rural community (n = 444; M_age = 15.74, SD_age = 1.22; 51% male) reported on their internalizing symptoms, experiences of discrimination, and sources of resilience. We examined whether perceived family resilience moderated the association between perceived discrimination and self-reported depressive, somatic, and anxiety symptoms over and above adolescents’ sex, self-reported level of acculturation, as well as perceived individual and contextual resilience.

Results

Analyses showed that perceived discrimination experiences were robustly associated with higher levels of self-reported internalizing symptoms, while perceived family resilience was related to lower self-reported symptomatology. Closer examination revealed that perceived family resilience buffered the negative effects of perceived discrimination on self-reported depression and somatic symptoms, but not anxiety symptoms.

Conclusions

This study addresses a gap in the literature by identifying differential protective effects of family resilience that might be explained by cultural values and practices in rural Latinx families. Findings suggest that interventions that incorporate family members and promote supportive family environments may benefit rural Latinx youth with a broad range of internalizing symptoms.

中文翻译：

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农村拉丁裔青少年的歧视和内化症状：家庭韧性的保护作用

摘要

客观的

在农村拉丁裔青年中，歧视与内化症状增加之间存在有据可查的关系。在这些青少年生活的众多资产中，家庭复原力成为一种与文化相关且强大的保护因素。然而，目前尚不清楚家庭韧性是否在不同的内化症状群中具有同等的保护作用，以及这种缓冲效应是否独立于其他相互关联的韧性来源。

方法

来自服务欠缺的农村社区的拉丁裔青少年（n = 444；M_年龄 = 15.74，SD_年龄 = 1.22；51% 为男性）报告了他们的内化症状、歧视经历和恢复力来源。我们研究了感知到的家庭弹性是否调节了感知到的歧视与自我报告的抑郁、躯体和焦虑症状之间的关联，以及青少年的性别、自我报告的文化适应水平以及感知到的个人和环境弹性。

结果

分析表明，感知到的歧视经历与较高水平的自我报告内化症状密切相关，而感知到的家庭适应力与较低的自我报告症状有关。更仔细的检查表明，感知到的家庭复原力缓冲了感知到的歧视对自我报告的抑郁和躯体症状的负面影响，但不是焦虑症状。

结论

本研究通过确定家庭复原力的不同保护作用来解决文献中的空白，这可能是由拉丁裔农村家庭的文化价值观和实践来解释的。研究结果表明，将家庭成员纳入并促进支持性家庭环境的干预措施可能会使具有广泛内化症状的农村拉丁裔青年受益。