TY - JOUR
T1 - Mexican American adolescents' profiles of risk and mental health
T2 - A person-centered longitudinal approach
AU - Zeiders, Katharine H.
AU - Roosa, Mark W.
AU - Knight, George P.
AU - Gonzales, Nancy A.
N1 - Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge the families for their participation in the project. Work on this project was supported by NIMH Grant R01-MH68920 and by the Cowden Fellowship Program of the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University .
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Mental health
KW - Mexican American youth
KW - Person-centered
KW - Risk factors
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U2 - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.03.014
DO - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.03.014
M3 - Article
C2 - 23608782
SN - 0140-1971
VL - 36
SP - 603
EP - 612
JO - Journal of Adolescence
JF - Journal of Adolescence
IS - 3
ER -