Living Conditions and Psychological Distress in Latino Migrant Day Laborers

The Role of Cultural and Community Protective Factors

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11056005
AutoresK C Organista (0000-0003-3280-7020, University of California, Berkeley, autor de correspondencia), Samantha Ngo (School of Social Welfare/School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley Berkeley CA USA), Torsten B Neilands (0000-0001-7936-9123, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies University of California, San Francisco San Francisco CA USA), Alex H Kral (0000-0002-9092-3671, Behavioral and Urban Health Program RTI International San Francisco CA USA)
Año2017
Volumen59
Número1-2
Páginas94-105
Fecha de publicación2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ajcp.12113
PMID27996094
OpenAlexW2566064620
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas18

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between typically difficult living conditions and psychological distress in Latino migrant day laborers (LMDLs), with attention to the potentially protective roles of contact with family in country of origin (i.e., communication, sending money, etc.), availability of local culture (i.e., food, music, people from one's country of origin), and utilization of community resources perceived to be culturally competent (i.e., services that are respectful, able to serve Latinos, able to solve problems, in Spanish, etc.). Participants were 344 LMDLs surveyed in the San Francisco Bay Area. As hypothesized: (a) difficult living conditions were related to depression, anxiety, and desesperación [desperation], the latter a popular Latino idiom of psychological distress recently validated on LMDLs; (b) contact with family moderated the relation between difficult living conditions and depression and desesperación but not anxiety and (c) access to local culture, and utilization of community resources, mediated the relation between difficult living conditions and depression and desesperación but not anxiety. Implications for intervening at local and larger levels in order to provide some protection against distress built into the LMDL experience in the United States are discussed

Anxiety · Distress · Geography · Health psychology · Immigration · Psychiatry · Psychological distress · Public health · Clinical Psychology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology