TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychological Distress among Latina/o College Students
T2 - the Roles of Self-Concealment and Psychological Inflexibility
AU - Mendoza, Hadrian
AU - Goodnight, Bradley L.
AU - Caporino, Nicole E.
AU - Masuda, Akihiko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - There is a dire need to understand behavioral health outcomes in U.S. Latina/o individuals. Following the psychological flexibility model of behavior change, the present cross-sectional study investigated the role of self-concealment in a range of distress variables in a U.S. Latina/o college sample. Participants (N = 83, 76 % female, range = 17–50 years old) completed self-report measures online. Results revealed a direct effect of self-concealment on depression and large indirect effects of self-concealment on general distress, somatization, and anxiety through psychological inflexibility. These findings suggest that maladaptive cognitive and emotion regulation processes in general, and psychological inflexibility in particular, contribute to distress in the present Latina/o sample. Future research should examine whether psychological inflexibility and self-concealment predict onset, recurrence, and/or maintenance of psychological distress among Latina/o individuals over time.
AB - There is a dire need to understand behavioral health outcomes in U.S. Latina/o individuals. Following the psychological flexibility model of behavior change, the present cross-sectional study investigated the role of self-concealment in a range of distress variables in a U.S. Latina/o college sample. Participants (N = 83, 76 % female, range = 17–50 years old) completed self-report measures online. Results revealed a direct effect of self-concealment on depression and large indirect effects of self-concealment on general distress, somatization, and anxiety through psychological inflexibility. These findings suggest that maladaptive cognitive and emotion regulation processes in general, and psychological inflexibility in particular, contribute to distress in the present Latina/o sample. Future research should examine whether psychological inflexibility and self-concealment predict onset, recurrence, and/or maintenance of psychological distress among Latina/o individuals over time.
KW - Latina/o
KW - Psychological distress
KW - Psychological inflexibility
KW - Self-concealment
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U2 - 10.1007/s12144-016-9500-9
DO - 10.1007/s12144-016-9500-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84984787949
SN - 1046-1310
VL - 37
SP - 172
EP - 179
JO - Current Psychology
JF - Current Psychology
IS - 1
ER -