Title
Family Cohesion And Its Relationship To Psychological Distress Among Latino Groups
Keywords
Family cohesion; Family conflict; Latino ethnic groups; Psychological distress
Abstract
This article presents analyses of a representative sample of U.S. Latinos (N = 2,540) to investigate whether family cohesion moderates the effects of cultural conflict on psychological distress. The results for the aggregated Latino group suggest a significant association between family cohesion and lower psychological distress, and the combination of strong family cohesion with presence of family cultural conflict is associated with higher psychological distress. However, this association differs by Latino groups. In this study, no association for Puerto Ricans is seen; Cuban results are similar to the aggregate group, family cultural conflict in Mexicans is associated with higher psychological distress whereas family cohesion in other Latinos is associated with higher psychological distress. Implications of these findings are discussed to unravel the differences in family dynamics across Latino subethnic groups. © 2008 Sage Publications.
Publication Date
8-1-2008
Publication Title
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
Volume
30
Issue
3
Number of Pages
357-378
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1177/0739986308318713
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
46749135602 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/46749135602
STARS Citation
Rivera, Fernando I.; Guarnaccia, Peter J.; Mulvaney-Day, Norah; Lin, Julia Y.; and Torres, Maria, "Family Cohesion And Its Relationship To Psychological Distress Among Latino Groups" (2008). Scopus Export 2000s. 10187.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/10187