@article{ref1,
title="Racial/ethnic discrimination and mental health in Mexican-origin youths and their parents: testing the "linked lives" hypothesis",
journal="Journal of Adolescent Health",
year="2018",
author="Park, Irene J. K. and Du, Han and Wang, Lijuan and Williams, David R. and Alegria, Margarita",
volume="62",
number="4",
pages="480-487",
abstract="PURPOSE: Using a life course perspective, the present study tested the concept of &quot;linked lives&quot; applied to the problem of not only how racial/ethnic discrimination may be associated with poor mental health for the target of discrimination but also how discrimination may exacerbate the discrimination-distress link for others in the target's social network-in this case, the family. <br><br>METHODS: The discrimination-distress link was investigated among 269 Mexican-origin adolescents and their parents both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. It was hypothesized that parents' discrimination experiences would adversely affect their adolescent children's mental health via a moderating effect on the target adolescent discrimination-distress link. The converse was also hypothesized for the target parents. Multilevel moderation analyses were conducted to test the moderating effect of parents' discrimination experiences on the youth discrimination-distress link. We also tested the moderating effect of youths' discrimination experiences on the parent discrimination-distress link. <br><br>RESULTS: Parents' discrimination experiences significantly moderated the longitudinal association between youths' discrimination stress appraisals and mental health, such that the father's discrimination experiences exacerbated the youth discrimination-depression link. Youths' discrimination stress appraisals were not a significant moderator of the cross-sectional parent discrimination-mental health association. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Implications of these findings are discussed from a linked lives perspective, highlighting how fathers' discrimination experiences can adversely affect youths who are coping with discrimination, in terms of their mental health.<br><br>Copyright © 2017 The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1054-139X",
doi="10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.10.010",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.10.010"
}