Acculturative stress as a risk factor of depression and anxiety in the Latin American immigrant population

The aim of this paper is to summarise and evaluate the empirical support for the association between anxiety and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and to address challenges related to method and study design. We review results from meta-analyses and more recent findings on the association of anxiety and the risk of CVD. Depression and anxiety are often listed as psychosocial risk markers of CVD, but the role of anxiety as a risk factor for CVD has not received the same evidential support as the effects of depression. Through a narrative review we identified six meta-analyses as well as 15 recent large studies of anxiety and CVD that we summarise. Some of the conflicting findings may be artefacts of study design or population the sample is drawn from. Researchers should take care to be population specific, measurement specific and outcome specific, and to control for comorbid depression.

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Childhood adversity as a risk factor for the early onset and chronicity of depression and anxiety disorders

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2008.01.118 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 23 ◽

pp. S32

Author(s):

J. Angst ◽

A. Gamma ◽

V. Ajdacic-Gross ◽

W. Roessler

Keyword(s):

Risk Factor ◽

Anxiety Disorders ◽

Early Onset ◽

Childhood Adversity ◽

Depression And Anxiety

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Supplemental Material for The Dynamics of Coping, Positive Emotions, and Well-Being: Evidence From Latin American Immigrant Farmworkers and College Students During a Time of Political Strife

Emotion ◽

10.1037/emo0001009.supp ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Latin American ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Well Being ◽

American Immigrant

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Silencing Social Media on Suicidal Matters at a School Setting

Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership ◽

10.1177/1555458918785659 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 43-54

Author(s):

Holly LaRoe ◽

Antonio Corrales

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Social Media ◽

Risk Factor ◽

School Setting ◽

School Principal ◽

Depression And Anxiety ◽

Educational Community ◽

The Past ◽

Near Future

Cyberbullying has become a real and occasionally lethal threat among adolescents during the past years. The act of cyberbullying is often untraceable, leaving victims tormented and routinely harassed on social media. This emerging problem causes depression and anxiety, psychologically affecting our adolescents. With an increase in adolescents’ suicides, cyberbullying should be examined as a risk factor. This case describes how the tragic suicide of a student at Heartsville High School immersed Principal Ivy La Fleur in the middle of a convoluted situation affecting students, parents, and staff. A series of events allowed the seasoned school principal to investigate the matter in depth, discover the struggles students were suffering in terms of cyberbullying, put a plan in place to manage a general crisis affecting the entire educational community, and promote changes to avoid similar situations in the near future.

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