Nair, Rajni, and Mark Roosa, and Rebecca White, and Katharine Zeiders. “Cultural Stressors and Mental Health Symptoms Among Mexican Americans: A Prospective Study Examining the Impact of the Family and Neighborhood Context.” Journal of Youth & Adolescence, vol. 42, issue 10, 1 Oct. 2013, p. 1611-1623, Education Full Text (H. W. Wilson), doi:10.1007/s10964-012-9834-z.
This article studies the links between cultural stressors and changes in mental health symptoms from a sample of Mexican American youth. They found that youth experiences of discrimination and language hassles increased internalizing and externalizing symptoms in middle school. Analyses showed that experiences of discrimination and language hassles upon 5th grade youth were positively related to increases in symptoms at 7th grade. There were also increases in externalizing symptoms across the 2-year span.