@article{ref1,
title="Neuroticism predicts acculturative stress in Mexican American college students",
journal="Hispanic journal of behavioral sciences",
year="2007",
author="Mangold, Deborah L. and Veraza, Rafael and Kinkler, Lori and Kinney, Nathan A.",
volume="29",
number="3",
pages="366-383",
abstract="Neuroticism is a risk factor for mood and anxiety disorders and a strong predictor of subjective stress in non-Hispanics. This study examined neuroticism as a predictor of subjective acculturative stress in 122 Mexican American college students. Neuroticism was measured using the Revised Neuroticism Extroversion Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), and acculturative stress was measured using the Hispanic Stress Inventory (HSI). <br><br>RESULTS of hierarchical regression analyses showed that overall neuroticism and the facets of depression, vulnerability, and anger and/or hostility significantly predicted acculturative stress. The association between neuroticism and greater subjective psychosocial stress can now be extended to acculturative stress for a subgroup of Mexican Americans. <br><br>FINDINGS support and extend previous work from the authors' laboratory suggesting that neuroticism modulates the relationship between exposure to culturally specific stress and risk for certain mood and anxiety disorders.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0739-9863",
doi="10.1177/0739986307302167",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739986307302167"
}