Victoria F Keeton, Janice F Bell, Christiana Drake, Erik O Fernandez Y Garcia, Matthew Pantell, Danielle Hessler, Holly Wing, Patricia P Silveira, Kieran J O'Donnell, Euclides José de Mendonça Filho, Michael J Meaney, Laura M Gottlieb
Latinx families may be particularly vulnerable to emotional dysfunction, due to higher rates of economic hardship and complex social influences in this population. Little is known about the impact of environmental stressors such as unmet social needs and maternal stress on the emotional health of Latinx children from low-income families. We conducted secondary analyses using survey and biomarker data from 432 Latinx children and mothers collected in a separate study. We used binomial and multinomial logistic regression to test if household social needs, or maternal perceived stress or hair cortisol concentration (HCC), predicted child measures of emotional functioning or child HCC, independent of relevant sociodemographic factors...
March 2023: Journal of Child and Family Studies