Depression and anxiety among first-generation immigrant latino youth: Key correlates and implications for future research

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 470-477

  Potochnick, Stephanie R ^a   Perreira, Krista M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; first generation; Hispanic; immigrant; Latino; mental health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EVALUATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MIGRATION; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; STRESS; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 77954646327     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181e4ce24     Document Type: Article

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