Living Conditions and Psychological Distress in Latino Migrant Day Laborers: The Role of Cultural and Community Protective Factors.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between typically difficult living conditions and psychological distress in Latino migrant day laborers (LMDLs), with attention to the potentially protective roles of contact with family in country of origin (i.e., communication, sending mone...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 59; no. 1/2; pp. 94 - 106
Autores principales: Organista, Kurt C., Ngo, Samantha, Neilands, Torsten B., Kral, Alex H.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2017
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          Organista, Kurt C.
          Ngo, Samantha
          Neilands, Torsten B.
          Kral, Alex H.
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          School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA, USA
          School of Social Welfare/School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA, USA
          Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco CA, USA
          Behavioral and Urban Health Program, RTI International, San Francisco CA, USA
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        Psychology of Hispanic Americans
        Psychological distress
        Mental depression
        Anxiety
        Psychology
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          Psychology of Hispanic Americans
          Psychological distress
          Mental depression
          Anxiety
          Psychology
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        Cultural and community resources
        Family
        Latino migrant day laborers
        Living conditions
        Protective factors
        Cultural and community resources
        Family
        Latino migrant day laborers
        Living conditions
        Protective factors
      ab: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between typically difficult living conditions and psychological distress in Latino migrant day laborers (LMDLs), with attention to the potentially protective roles of contact with family in country of origin (i.e., communication, sending money, etc.), availability of local culture (i.e., food, music, people from one's country of origin), and utilization of community resources perceived to be culturally competent (i.e., services that are respectful, able to serve Latinos, able to solve problems, in Spanish, etc.). Participants were 344 LMDLs surveyed in the San Francisco Bay Area. As hypothesized: (a) difficult living conditions were related to depression, anxiety, and desesperación [desperation], the latter a popular Latino idiom of psychological distress recently validated on LMDLs; (b) contact with family moderated the relation between difficult living conditions and depression and desesperación but not anxiety and (c) access to local culture, and utilization of community resources, mediated the relation between difficult living conditions and depression and desesperación but not anxiety. Implications for intervening at local and larger levels in order to provide some protection against distress built into the LMDL experience in the United States are discussed.
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