@article{ref1,
title="The role of discrimination and acculturative stress in the physical health of Mexican-origin adults",
journal="Hispanic journal of behavioral sciences",
year="2001",
author="Finch, Brian Karl and Hummer, Robert A. and Kol, Bohdan and Vega, William A.",
volume="23",
number="4",
pages="399-429",
abstract="The authors propose that perceived discrimination has an effect on self-reported health statuses, which are known to affect future morbidity and mortality. A sample of 3,012 Mexican-origin adults from the Mexican American Prevalence and Services Study in California is utilized to test this hypothesis. Dependent variables include a self-rating of health and a count of self-reported chronic conditions; the key independent variable is a scale of overall discrimination specific to one's Mexican origin. <br><br>RESULTS indicate that discrimination is related to poor physical health--net of controls for acculturation stress, national heritage, sociodemographic variables, and social support. Depression is identified as a major mechanism through which discrimination may affect physical health. Notably, job market stress/discrimination has a very strong association with poorer physical health, net of depression. Individual-level effects of discrimination found in this study, as well as institutional-level conditions and contextual effects, should be treated as crucial to future studies of individual-level physical health differentials.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0739-9863",
doi="10.1177/0739986301234004",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739986301234004"
}