1. Immigrant Parent Legal Status and Children's Health in the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latino Youth (SOL Youth).
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Potochnick S, Mikkelsen I, Gallo LC, Isasi CR, Gonzalez F 2nd, and Perreira KM
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Adult, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Acculturation, Health Status, Socioeconomic Factors, Stress, Psychological ethnology, Undocumented Immigrants psychology, United States epidemiology, Child Health, Emigrants and Immigrants legislation & jurisprudence, Emigrants and Immigrants psychology, Hispanic or Latino psychology, Hispanic or Latino statistics & numerical data, Mental Health ethnology, Parents psychology
- Abstract
We assess how immigrant parent legal status shapes children's physical and mental health. Using the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latino Youth-a multi-site dataset-we evaluated mean differences in multiple physical and mental health indicators and parents' and children's stress and resilience by parents' (primarily mothers') legal status (N = 1177). We estimated regression models of two overall child health outcomes-allostatic load and any internalized disorder. Average allostatic load was 28% higher (0.36 standard deviations) and average prevalence of any internalizing disorder was 16% points greater for children of foreign-born unauthorized versus US-born parents. Higher levels of socioeconomic and acculturative stress contributed to children of foreign-born unauthorized parents' heightened health risk, while resilience factors-parental health and familial support-protected their health. Children with unauthorized immigrant parents experience both negative physical and mental health outcomes that can have potential long-term costs., (© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)
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- 2024
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