Description
The transition out of high school is a major milestone for adolescents as they earn greater autonomy and responsibilities. An estimated 69.2% of adolescents enroll in higher education immediately following high school completion, including increasing numbers of Latino adolescents (National Center for Education Statistics, 2016). Integrative model (García Coll et al., 1996) suggests a need for research on promotive and protective contextual factors for ethnic minority children and adolescents. Guided by the model, the proposed research will explore a salient Latino cultural value, familism, and family communication as predictors of changes in depressive symptoms from high school to university among Latino adolescents (N = 209; 35.6% male; Mage=17.59, SD=.53). Furthermore, sleep, a key bioregulatory mechanism, was explored as a potential moderator of these processes (Dahl & El-Sheikh, 2007). On average, familism values were not associated with college depressive symptoms, but family communication was significantly negatively associated with college depressive symptoms. Neither sleep duration nor sleep problems significantly moderated the association between familism values and college depressive symptom. Patterns were similar for family communication. The interaction between sleep problems and familism-support values were significantly associated with college depressive symptoms. However, when simple slopes were probed, none were significant.
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Title
- Are familism values, family communication, and sleep associated with depressive symptoms?: an investigation of Latino youth well-being over the transition to college
Contributors
- Park, HyeJung (Author)
- Doane, Leah (Thesis advisor)
- Infurna, Frank (Committee member)
- Updegraff, Kimberly (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
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2019
Subjects
- Developmental Psychology
- depressive symptoms
- familism values
- Family communication
- Latino adolescents
- sleep
- Hispanic American college students--Mental health.
- Hispanic American college students
- Hispanic American college students--Family relationships.
- Hispanic American college students
- Sleep--Psychological aspects.
- sleep
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Note
- thesisPartial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2019
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 53-68)
- Field of study: Psychology
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Statement of Responsibility
by HyeJung Park