Acculturation Impacts on Depressive Symptoms Among Hispanic Sexual Minority Youth and Hispanic Non-sexual Minority Youth.
Alyssa Lozano, Maria I Tapia, Dalton Scott and 3 others
PMID 39836519WHAT IT FOUND
For Hispanic adolescents, their own American and Hispanic cultural values were associated with fewer depressive symptoms over 36 months, except in sexual minority youth, where the sample was small and the associations were not clear.
Key findings
01In the overall sample, adolescent Americanism and adolescent Hispanicism were associated with lower depressive symptoms, and parent Americanism was also associated with lower depressive symptoms; parent Hispanicism was not.
02Among Hispanic non-sexual minority youth, adolescent Americanism, adolescent Hispanicism, and parent Americanism were associated with lower depressive symptoms; parent Hispanicism was not.
03Among Hispanic sexual minority youth, neither adolescent nor parent acculturation was significantly associated with depressive symptoms, although the reported effect estimates were larger than for non-sexual minority youth.
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What it does not show
The sample came from one geographic area, Miami-Dade County, so it may not represent Hispanic families across the United States. The Hispanic sexual minority subgroup was small, which limited the ability to detect significant effects in that group. The paper reports 46 Hispanic sexual minority youth in the sample description but 85 in the limitations, so the subgroup size is unclear. This was a secondary analysis of data from a parenting intervention trial, not a test of acculturation as a treatment target, so it cannot show cause. The supplied text does not describe the randomisation method used in the original trial.
Declared interests
No competing interests were declared. The supplied article text does not identify a funder for this secondary analysis.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that helping Hispanic sexual minority youth adopt American or Hispanic cultural values will reduce their depressive symptoms. In that subgroup, acculturation was not significantly associated with symptoms, the sample was small, and the study did not test an intervention.