The Relationship Between Latino Adolescents’ Perceptions of Discrimination, Neighborhood Risk, and Parenting on Self-Esteem and Depressive Symptoms

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (7) ◽  
pp. 1179-1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew O. Behnke ◽  
Scott W. Plunkett ◽  
Tovah Sands ◽  
Mayra Y. Bámaca-Colbert
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Latino Adolescents ◽  
Neighborhood Risk ◽  
The Relationship

The Relationship of Depressive Symptoms, Self-Esteem, and Sexual Behaviors in a Predominantly Hispanic Sample of Men Who Have Sex With Men

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. De Santis ◽  
Jessie M. Colin ◽  
Elias Provencio Vasquez ◽  
Gail C. McCain
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Safer Sex ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Predominantly Hispanic ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Despite public health campaigns and safer sex messages, many men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to participate in high-risk sexual behaviors, which may make them vulnerable to HIV infection and sexually transmitted infections. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and sexual behaviors in a predominantly Hispanic sample of MSM. This correlational study sampled 205 MSM ( M = 37 years of age, SD = ±8) representing the diverse ethnic composition of South Florida. This sample consisted of ethnic minorities (79%) with a large number of foreign-born men (69%). Participants completed measures of depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and sexual behaviors. Results indicated that higher levels of depressive symptoms and higher levels of self-esteem had a statistically significant relationship to lower levels of safer sexual behaviors. Lower income, lower educational level, and preference for Spanish language were associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms; lower income was associated with lower levels of self-esteem; and foreign birth and a preference for Spanish language were associated with lower levels of safer sex behaviors. Higher levels of depressive symptoms and higher levels of self-esteem were associated with high-risk sexual behaviors in this sample of MSM. Further research needs to be directed at culturally specific mental health and HIV prevention strategies for these vulnerable MSM.

Stigma Resistance and Well-Being in the Context of the Mental Illness Identity

2021 ◽  
pp. 002214652097662
Author(s):  
Kristen Marcussen ◽  
Mary Gallagher ◽  
Christian Ritter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Mental Health Center ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Perceptual Control ◽  
Stigma Resistance ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Relationship

We use a perceptual control model of identity to examine the relationship between stigmatized appraisals (from self and other) and well-being among individuals with serious mental illness. We also examine the role of stigma resistance strategies in the identity process. Using in-depth interviews with active clients of a community mental health center (N = 156), we find that deflection, or distancing oneself from mental illness, is associated with greater self-esteem and fewer depressive symptoms. Challenging others through education is associated with higher self-esteem, and challenging stigma through activism is associated with fewer depressive symptoms. Activism also moderates the relationship between identity discrepancy (the difference between appraisals from self and other) and well-being; however, the extent to which activism is helpful or harmful depends on whether appraisals from others are more or less stigmatizing than self-views. We discuss the implications of these findings for identity and stigma research.

scholarly journals Job Insecurity and Depressive Symptoms in Mothers and Adolescents: A Dyadic Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saija Mauno ◽  
Jaana Minkkinen ◽  
Riikka Hirvonen ◽  
Noona Kiuru
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Indirect Path ◽  
Moderator Model ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perceived Job Insecurity

AbstractIn this study, we examined whether maternal perceived job insecurity (JI) affected depressive symptoms in their adolescent children. Specifically, we tested a mediator-moderator model in which we hypothesized that maternal JI was related to adolescent depressive symptoms indirectly via maternal depressive symptoms. Most importantly, we also explored whether this indirect path was moderated by two buffering resources, i.e., maternal off-job recovery and adolescent self-esteem. There is little research on the effects of parental JI on adolescent children from the viewpoint of buffering moderators. Due to growing insecurity in the labor markets we need more information about resources that mitigate the harmful effects of JI within families. We tested the model via structural equation modeling among Finnish mother-adolescent dyads (N = 601, mothers aged 32–60 years; adolescents aged 14–18 years). Our results showed that mothers’ depressive symptoms did not mediate the relationship between mothers’ JI and adolescents’ depressive symptoms, but mothers’ JI was directly related to increased depressive symptoms among both adolescents and their mothers. Mothers’ off-job recovery and adolescents’ self-esteem buffered against mothers’ JI in relation to depressive symptoms. When off-job recovery (in mothers) and self-esteem (in adolescents) were high, the higher level of JI was not associated with increased depressive symptoms. Off-job recovery among working mothers should be improved as it has potential to protect against JI. Moreover, adolescents’ self-esteem should be boosted as it mitigates the effects of mothers’ job stress (e.g., JI) on adolescents’ well-being.

scholarly journals A transdiagnostic model of low self-esteem: pathway analysis in a heterogeneous clinical sample

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Szilvia Kresznerits ◽  
Sándor Rózsa ◽  
Dóra Perczel-Forintos
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Hypothesis Model ◽  
Transdiagnostic Factors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Transdiagnostic Model

Abstract Background: Low self-esteem (LSE) has been associated with several psychiatric disorders, and is presumably influenced by transdiagnostic factors. Our study was based both on investigations of the relationship between depression and LSE (vulnerability, scar, reciprocal models) and on theories of cognitive factors contributing to the development and maintenance of LSE, such as Melanie Fennell’s model, the catalyst model and the Self-Regulatory Executive Function model. Aims: Based on the theories above, in our cross-sectional study we aimed at understanding more specifically the transdiagnostic factors that can maintain LSE in a heterogeneous clinical sample. Method: Six hundred and eleven out-patients were assessed by SCID-I and self-report questionnaires. The model was tested by structural equation modelling. Results: Based on the fit indices, the hypothesis model did not fit the data; therefore, a modified transdiagnostic model was emerged. This model made a good fit to the data [χ2 (12, n=611)=76.471, p<.001; RMSEA=.080, CFI=.950, TLI=.913] with a strong explanatory power (adj R2=.636). Severe stressful life events and depressive symptoms lead to LSE indirectly. Self-blame, perfectionism, seeking love and hopelessness have been identified as mediating factors in the relationship between depressive symptoms and LSE. Although there was a significant correlation between state-anxiety and LSE, as well as LSE and rumination, these two factors did not fit into the model. Conclusions: The new transdiagnostic model of LSE has great potential in the treatment of various mental conditions and may serve as a guide to developing more focused and more effective therapeutic interventions.

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