TY - JOUR
T1 - Shift and Persist in Mexican American Youth
T2 - A Longitudinal Test of Depressive Symptoms
AU - Stein, Gabriela L.
AU - Jensen, Michaeline
AU - Christophe, Noah Keita
AU - Cruz, Rick A.
AU - Martin Romero, Michelle
AU - Robins, Richard
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA017902) to Richard W. Robins and Rand D. Conger and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development T32‐HD07376 to Drs Christophe and Martin Romero. We thank the participating families, staff, and research assistants who took part in this study. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Society for Research on Adolescence
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This paper tested whether shift-&-persist coping, or coping involving the combination of cognitive reappraisal, acceptance, and optimism (Chen & Miller, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2012, 7, 135), attenuates the risks presented by economic hardship and ethnic discrimination for change in depressive symptoms from 9th to 12th grade, in a sample of 674 Mexican American youth (Mage W1 = 10.86; 50% female; 72% US born) and whether this effect depends on ethnic pride. Structural equation modeling indicated that, when accounting for economic hardship, shift-&-persist was associated with fewer concurrent depression symptoms. Youth with lower ethnic pride who endorsed high levels of shift-&-persist were protected against the negative impacts of peer ethnic discrimination on depressive symptoms. Future research on ethnic discrimination should examine patterns of coping and identity that can mitigate risk.
AB - This paper tested whether shift-&-persist coping, or coping involving the combination of cognitive reappraisal, acceptance, and optimism (Chen & Miller, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2012, 7, 135), attenuates the risks presented by economic hardship and ethnic discrimination for change in depressive symptoms from 9th to 12th grade, in a sample of 674 Mexican American youth (Mage W1 = 10.86; 50% female; 72% US born) and whether this effect depends on ethnic pride. Structural equation modeling indicated that, when accounting for economic hardship, shift-&-persist was associated with fewer concurrent depression symptoms. Youth with lower ethnic pride who endorsed high levels of shift-&-persist were protected against the negative impacts of peer ethnic discrimination on depressive symptoms. Future research on ethnic discrimination should examine patterns of coping and identity that can mitigate risk.
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U2 - 10.1111/jora.12714
DO - 10.1111/jora.12714
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122918161
JO - Journal of Research on Adolescence
JF - Journal of Research on Adolescence
SN - 1050-8392
ER -