Acculturative stress and experiential avoidance: relations to depression, suicide, and anxiety symptoms among minority college students.
Cogn Behav Ther
; 45(6): 501-17, 2016 11.
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ABSTRACT
Although college campuses represent strategic locations to address mental health disparity among minorities in the US, there has been strikingly little empirical work on risk processes for anxiety/depression among this population. The present investigation examined the interactive effects of acculturative stress and experiential avoidance in relation to anxiety and depressive symptoms among minority college students (n = 1,095; 78.1% female; Mage = 21.92, SD = 4.23; 15.1% African-American (non-Hispanic), 45.3% Hispanic, 32.5% Asian, and 7.1% other races/ethnicities. Results provided empirical evidence of an interaction between acculturative stress and experiential avoidance for suicidal, social anxiety, and anxious arousal symptoms among the studied sample. Inspection of the significant interactions revealed that acculturative stress was related to greater levels of suicidal symptoms, social anxiety, and anxious arousal among minority college students with higher, but not lower, levels of experiential avoidance. However, in contrast to prediction, there was no significant interaction for depressive symptoms. Together, these data provide novel empirical evidence for the clinically-relevant interplay between acculturative stress and experiential avoidance in regard to a relatively wide array of negative emotional states among minority college students.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Ansiedade
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Estresse Psicológico
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Estudantes
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Etnicidade
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Depressão
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Ideação Suicida
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Aculturação
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Grupos Minoritários
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Equity_inequality
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cogn Behav Ther
Assunto da revista:
CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO
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TERAPEUTICA
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos