Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Volume 20, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 155-163

Ethnic Identity and Perceived Stress Among Ethnically Diverse Immigrants (Article)

Espinosa A.* , Tikhonov A. , Ellman L.M. , Kern D.M. , Lui F. , Anglin D.
  • a Department of Psychology, The City College of New York, CUNY, 160 Convent Avenue, NAC 7/120, New York, NY 10031, United States
  • b Department of Psychology, The City College of New York, CUNY, 160 Convent Avenue, NAC 7/120, New York, NY 10031, United States
  • c Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
  • d Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
  • e Department of Psychology, The City College of New York, CUNY, 160 Convent Avenue, NAC 7/120, New York, NY 10031, United States, Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, United States
  • f Department of Psychology, The City College of New York, CUNY, 160 Convent Avenue, NAC 7/120, New York, NY 10031, United States, Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, United States

Abstract

Recent empirical research suggests that having a strong ethnic identity may be associated with reduced perceived stress. However, the relationship between perceived stress and ethnic identity has not been tested in a large and ethnically diverse sample of immigrants. This study utilized a multi-group latent class analysis of ethnic identity on a sample of first and second generation immigrants (N = 1603), to determine ethnic identity classifications, and their relation to perceived stress. A 4-class ethnic identity structure best fit the data for this immigrant sample, and the proportion within each class varied by ethnicity, but not immigrant generation. High ethnic identity was found to be protective against perceived stress, and this finding was invariant across ethnicity. This study extends the findings of previous research on the protective effect of ethnic identity against perceived stress to immigrant populations of diverse ethnic origins. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Author Keywords

Ethnic minority Perceived stress Immigrant Immigrant generation Ethnic identity

Index Keywords

Ethnic Groups Stress, Psychological mental stress social behavior Emigrants and Immigrants ethnic group risk factor Risk Factors Humans Cross-Sectional Studies psychology Young Adult human cross-sectional study migrant Self Report Social Identification Adolescent
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84988944026&doi=10.1007%2fs10903-016-0494-z&partnerID=40&md5=6e57ca4394e909c3fe5ea33c309b20bf
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-016-0494-z
ISSN: 15571912
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English