Mexican American Adolescents' Profiles of Risk and Mental Health: A Person-Centered Longitudinal Approach

Autor/inn/en	Zeiders, Katharine H.; Roosa, Mark W.; Knight, George P.; Gonzales, Nancy A.
Titel	Mexican American Adolescents' Profiles of Risk and Mental Health: A Person-Centered Longitudinal Approach
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 36 (2013) 3, S.603-612 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.03.014
Schlagwörter	Profiles; Risk; Mental Health; Adolescents; Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7; Mexican Americans; Family Characteristics; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Sociocultural Patterns; Peer Groups; Emotional Adjustment; Intervention; Prevention; Mental Disorders + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Risiko; Psychohygiene; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; Hispanoamerikaner; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Gleichaltrigengruppe; Peer Group; Emotionale Anpassung; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit
Abstract	Although Mexican American adolescents experience multiple risk factors in their daily lives, most research examines the influences of risk factors on adjustment independently, ignoring the additive and interactive effects of multiple risk factors. Guided by a person-centered perspective and utilizing latent profile analysis, this study identified Mexican American fifth graders' (N = 749) risk profiles based on family, peer, and socio-cultural risk factors and examined the relations of these risk profiles to mental health symptomatology in seventh grade. Results revealed three distinct profiles that differed quantitatively and qualitatively. Profiles were then linked to levels of mental health symptomatology, with youth in the highest risk profile displaying the most symptoms. Youth in two other risk profiles displayed lower levels. The findings suggest that Mexican American youth develop within distinct risk contexts that differ in their relations to adjustment. Such findings inform prevention/intervention efforts aimed at reducing mental health problems in adolescence. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10