Cultural Stress, Daily Well-Being, and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms Among Hispanic College Students

Seth J. Schwartz*, Alan S. Waterman, Cory L. Cobb, Miguel Ángel Cano, Carolina Scaramutti, Alan Meca, Simon Ozer, Coleen Ward, Sofia Puente-Durán, Elma L. Lorenzo-Blanco, Jennifer B. Unger, Maria C. Duque, Saskia R. Vos, Ingrid Zeledon, Maria C. Fernanda Garcia, Charles R. Martinez

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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Abstract

The present study was designed to examine the extent to which, in a sample of 873 Hispanic college students, daily levels of, and variability in, well-being would mediate the predictive effects of culturally related stressors (discrimination, negative context of reception, and bicultural stress) on internalizing and externalizing symptoms 11 days later. A 12-day daily diary design was utilized, where reports of cultural stressors were gathered on Day 1, dailywell-being reports were gathered onDays 2–11, and outcomes were measured onDay 12 (with controls forDay 1 levels of these same outcomes). Structural equationmodeling results indicated that daily means of, and variability in, well-being significantly mediated the predictive effect of Day 1 ethnic/racial discrimination, negative context of reception, and bicultural stress on Day 12 symptoms of anxiety and depression. No effects emerged for externalizing symptoms. When we decomposed the latent well-being variability construct into its component indicators (selfesteem, life satisfaction, psychological well-being/self-acceptance, and eudaimonic well-being), daily variability in life satisfaction and self-acceptance appeared to be primarily responsible for the mediated predictive effects we observed. These results are discussed in terms of implications for further research, for counseling practice, and for the development of more inclusive university practices and policies

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Counseling Psychology
Vol/bind69
Nummer4
Sider (fra-til)416-429
Antal sider14
ISSN0022-0167
DOI
StatusUdgivet - jul. 2022

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