Stress, Coping, and Health: A Comparison of Mexican Immigrants, Mexican-Americans, and Non-Hispanic Whites

Farley, Tillman; Galves, Al; Dickinson, L. Miriam; Perez, Maria de Jesus Diaz

doi:10.1007/s10903-005-3678-5

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“…Questions of life stressors were drawn from research on an array of health outcomes and stress (Campos, Schetter, Walsh, & Schenker, 2007;Dressler, 1996;Farley, Galves, Dickinson, & Perez, 2005;Wallace & Wallace, 2004). Not all questions in the survey are examined here.…”

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Undocumented immigrants and their use of medical services in Orange County, California

Chávez

2012

Social Science & Medicine

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a b s t r a c tDoes an undocumented immigration status predict the use of medical services? To explore this question, this paper examines medical care utilization of undocumented Latino immigrants compared to Latino legal immigrants and citizens, and non-Latino whites in Orange County, California. Data were collected through a random sample telephone survey of 805 Latinos and 396 non-Hispanic whites between January 4 and January 30, 2006. Findings show that undocumented immigrants had relatively low incomes and were less likely to have medical insurance; experience a number of stresses in their lives; and underutilize medical services when compared to legal immigrants and citizens. Predictors of use of medical services are found to include undocumented immigration status, medical insurance, education, and gender. Undocumented Latinos were found to use medical services less than legal immigrants and citizens, and to rely more on clinic-based care when they do seek medical services.

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Undocumented immigrants and their use of medical services in Orange County, California

Chávez

2012

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Whites (Farley et al, 2005). Finally, the direct effect between duration of residence and BMI remained significant even after accounting for the six mediators, suggesting that other potential mediators should be explored in future research.…”

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Duration of U.S. stay and body mass index among Latino and Asian immigrants: A test of theoretical pathways

Bostean

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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Studies find that longer-term immigrants have higher body mass index (BMI) than their more recently-arrived counterparts. Most interpretations of these health patterns by duration of U.S. residence rely on theories of immigrant integration; they posit that with increasing time in the United States, immigrants incorporate economically, socially, and culturally into aspects of U.S. society, and that these changes impact health. Few studies empirically examine whether these aspects of integration are indeed mediators of the association between duration of U.S. stay and BMI, and if their patterns differ across immigrant subgroups. This study examines data from the National Latino and Asian American Survey, using path analytic methods to simultaneously test six hypothesized mediators between duration and BMI: household income, English language ability, ethnic identity, family cohesion, acculturative stress and discrimination for both Latino and Asian immigrants, stratified by gender. We find little evidence for an association between duration and BMI for either Latino or Asian men. For women, duration and BMI have a significant and positive relationship, although the pathways differ between the two ethnic groups.For Latina women, household income and acculturative stress are significant indirect pathways, although they work in opposing directions. For Asian women, English proficiency and discrimination are significant indirect pathways. Our findings reveal complex pathways between duration and BMI that vary by ethnicity and gender and highlight limitations in the negative acculturation theory, which suggests that exposure to the United States should have a net negative impact on health. In contrast, our findings suggest not all groups show declining health with longer duration, as measured by BMI, and that integration processes do not always translate into health differences in the expected directions. Future research on duration patterns may need to consider alternative explanations beyond incorporation-based processes, such as cross-national health theories or age, period, cohort effects.3

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“…Twelve studies [17,18,[52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61] reported that the turning to religion sub-scale loaded to a factor with at least one other sub-scale, three studies [62][63][64] reported that the turning to religion sub-scale formed its own separate factor, and five studies [21,[65][66][67][68] reported that the religion sub-scale did not have a sufficiently high loading with any other factor. As with the item-level analyses (Table 1), PCA was the most frequently used technique, with 9 of the 20 studies [18,[52][53][54]56,57,62,64,66] explicitly stating this method. Of the ten studies that mentioned the rotation method used, nine [18,21,[52][53][54][55]61,62,67] stated varimax, and one stated that they had used an oblique rotation [68].…”

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“…As with the item-level analyses (Table 1), PCA was the most frequently used technique, with 9 of the 20 studies [18,[52][53][54]56,57,62,64,66] explicitly stating this method. Of the ten studies that mentioned the rotation method used, nine [18,21,[52][53][54][55]61,62,67] stated varimax, and one stated that they had used an oblique rotation [68]. Nine studies [17,21,58-60,63,65,67,68] only stated that they had used a factor analysis or exploratory factor analysis, and two studies had used a principal axis factor analysis [55,61].…”

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“…Focus will be given to the sub-scale turning to religion (the two items "I've been trying to find comfort in my religion or spiritual beliefs" and "I've been praying or meditating"), since this sub-scale is reported to behave in very diverse fashions in factor analyses. Schottenbauer et al [17], for example, reported that the turning to religion sub-scale loaded onto a factor together with the sub-scales using emotional support and using instrumental support, and Farley et al [18] found that turning to religion formed a factor together with the sub-sales positive reframing, acceptance, and humor. Religious coping forming its own distinct factor [19,20], or lack of sufficiently high loadings onto any other factor [21,22] is also commonly reported.…”

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A Systematic Review of Studies Using the Brief COPE: Religious Coping in Factor Analyses

Krägeloh

2011

Religions

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Abstract:Religion is generally recognized as a major resource for dealing with stressful events, but its relationship with secular coping strategies continues to be debated. The present article provides a systematic review of the way in which analyses of the sub-scale turning to religion of the widely used Brief COPE [1] instrument are presented in peer-reviewed research articles, in order to investigate how the wealth of data published using this instrument can inform how religious coping relates to other coping strategies. Of the 212 identified articles that included turning to religion in their analyses, 80 combined sub-scale scores to form higher-order coping factors, 38 of which based on exploratory factor analyses of their own datasets. When factor analyses had used individual items as indicators, religious coping was more likely to load together with maladaptive coping strategies, and more likely with adaptive coping strategies when analyses were conducted at sub-scale level. To a large extent, the variation in the results from exploratory factor analyses appears to be due to the diverse and often inappropriate factor analytic techniques used to determine the factor structure of the Brief COPE instrument. Reports from factor analyses of the Brief COPE therefore have very little value when trying to make general conclusions about the role of religious coping in relation to secular coping methods.

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Stress, Coping, and Health: A Comparison of Mexican Immigrants, Mexican-Americans, and Non-Hispanic Whites

Cited by 192 publications

References 43 publications

Undocumented immigrants and their use of medical services in Orange County, California

Undocumented immigrants and their use of medical services in Orange County, California

Duration of U.S. stay and body mass index among Latino and Asian immigrants: A test of theoretical pathways

A Systematic Review of Studies Using the Brief COPE: Religious Coping in Factor Analyses

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