TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Neuroticism predicts acculturative stress in Mexican American college students
JO  - Hispanic journal of behavioral sciences
A1  - Mangold, Deborah L.
A1  - Veraza, Rafael
A1  - Kinkler, Lori
A1  - Kinney, Nathan A.
SP  - 366
EP  - 383
VL  - 29
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0739-9863
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739986307302167
ID  - ref1
ER  -