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The Role of Familism and Life Stressors in Latinx Adolescents' Cortisol Response
Description
Family influences are known predictors of adolescent health and well-being trajectories, yet little research has investigated how adolescents’ orientation to family may be associated with their physiological stress responses. Influenced by the strength-based approach to culture, this study evaluated 418 Hispanic adolescents' familism values and perceived life stress in family, school, and peer domains to investigate prospective associations with hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis stress responses to the Group Public Speaking Task for Adolescents (GPST-A). Prior growth-mixture modeling on this sample revealed a five-class solution of cortisol responding to the GPST-A that was used here as the dependent variable: one class showed a more pronounced pattern of reactivity, potentially indicative of hyper-responsivity to the stress task; two classes showed evidence of a low to moderate cortisol response, potentially indicative of an adaptive physiological response to the challenge; and two classes showed patterns of non-responsivity, potentially indicative of hypo-responsivity. Results demonstrate that the role of familism is nuanced in the context of stressors, potentially offering both promotive and risk-amplifying effects for the physiological stress response system. This study offered several novel findings in the relation between cultural factors, salient stressors of adolescence, and HPA activity.
Date Created
2020-05
Contributors
- Smola, Xochitl Arlene (Author)
- Gonzales, Nancy (Thesis director)
- Presson, Clark (Committee member)
- Doane, Leah (Committee member)
- Department of Psychology (Contributor)
- School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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35 pages
Language
eng
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In Copyright
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Academic Year 2019-2020
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.54733
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minimal
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- 2019-10-31 12:00:06
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- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 3 years 3 months ago
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