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

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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

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Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences

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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

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Counseling Psychology
Volume	69
Issue	4
Pages (from-to)	416-429
Number of pages	14
ISSN	0022-0167
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000604
Publication status	Published - Jul 2022

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College students
Cultural stressors
Daily diary
Hispanic
Well-being variability

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Schwartz, S. J., Waterman, A. S., Cobb, C. L., Cano, M. Á., Scaramutti, C., Meca, A., Ozer, S., Ward, C., Puente-Durán, S., Lorenzo-Blanco, E. L., Unger, J. B., Duque, M. C., Vos, S. R., Zeledon, I., Fernanda Garcia, M. C., & Martinez, C. R. (2022). Cultural Stress, Daily Well-Being, and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms Among Hispanic College Students. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 69(4), 416-429. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000604

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Cultural Stress, Daily Well-Being, and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms Among Hispanic College Students. / Schwartz, Seth J.; Waterman, Alan S.; Cobb, Cory L. et al.
In: Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol. 69, No. 4, 07.2022, p. 416-429.

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