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Mental Health and Covid-19 Pandemic Stressors Among Latina/o/x College Students with Varying Self and Parental Immigration Status

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ID18934958
AuthorsL E Enriquez (0000-0002-6580-3109, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author), Alberto Eduardo Morales (University of California, Irvine), Victoria E Rodríguez (0000-0001-5645-1378, University of California, Irvine), Karina Chavarria (0000-0002-1734-7102, California State University, Channel Islands), Annie Ro (0000-0001-7920-3545, University of California, Irvine)
Year2022
Volume10
Issue1
Pages282-295
Publication date2022-01-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2196-8837 • E-ISSN: 2197-3792
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s40615-021-01218-x
PMID35072943
OpenAlexW4207070071
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited28

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced significant psychological distress for college students due to the sudden proliferation of stressors. We examine whether and how self and parental immigration status contributes to Latina/o/x college students' mental health and pandemic stressors during the initial months of the pandemic. We draw on quantitative and qualitative survey data collected in March-June 2020 with 1,600 Latina/o/x University of California undergraduate students from three self-identified groups: undocumented students, US citizens with at least one undocumented parent, and US citizens with lawfully present parents. Quantitative analyses reveal that the pandemic produced widespread negative mental health effects but the severity of these effects did not differ by self/parental immigration status. Our qualitative analyses identify common pandemic-related stressors across our three student groups (financial insecurity, COVID-19 virus concerns, academic strains, and social dynamics); however, undocumented students and US citizens with undocumented parents identify unique aspects of these stressors due to legal vulnerabilities. Self and parental undocumented status also compromises the ability to manage common pandemic stressors because of immigration status-related exclusion from necessary resources. Ultimately, we argue that the high-stress nature of the pandemic elevated mental distress across all student groups, but the structural exclusion of undocumented immigrants contributes to unique experiences of stress among Latina/o/x undocumented students and US citizen students with undocumented parents

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Disease · Immigration · Mental health · Outbreak · Pandemic · Political science · Psychiatry · Stressor · Clinical Psychology · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Epidemiology · Gerontology · Internal Medicine · Virology

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Citation span2022 - 2025 (4)
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