How do pre-migration crisis exposures and post-migration cultural stressors shape mental health symptoms among Venezuelan youth in the United States and Colombia?

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Τίτλος: How do pre-migration crisis exposures and post-migration cultural stressors shape mental health symptoms among Venezuelan youth in the United States and Colombia?
Συγγραφείς: Lee SW; Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States. Electronic address: cldhkdhk@utexas.edu., Salas-Wright CP; School of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States., Maldonado-Molina MM; Department of Health Education and Behavior, College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States., Lee TK; Department of Child Psychology and Education / Social Innovation Convergence Program, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea., Calderón IA; Department of Health Education and Behavior, College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States., Pérez-Gómez A; Corporación Nuevos Rumbos, Bogotá, Colombia., Mejía-Trujillo J; Corporación Nuevos Rumbos, Bogotá, Colombia., Bates MM; Department of Health Education and Behavior, College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States., Oh S; College of Social Work, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States., Vo DH; Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States., Alpysbekova A; Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States., Andrade P; Raíces Venezolanas, Doral, FL, United States., Rodríguez J; Iglesia Episcopal Jesús de Nazaret, Orlando, FL, United States., Schwartz SJ; Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
Πηγή: Social science & medicine (1982) [Soc Sci Med] 2026 Aug; Vol. 403, pp. 119406. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 May 15.
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: Pergamon Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8303205 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-5347 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02779536 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Original Publication: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon, c1982-
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): Mental Health*/statistics & numerical data , Stress, Psychological*/psychology , Stress, Psychological*/ethnology , Stress, Psychological*/complications , Transients and Migrants*/psychology , Transients and Migrants*/statistics & numerical data , Acculturation*, Colombia/epidemiology ; Colombia/ethnology ; Depression/ethnology ; Depression/epidemiology ; South American People/psychology ; South American People/statistics & numerical data ; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/ethnology ; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/epidemiology ; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/psychology ; United States/epidemiology ; United States/ethnology ; Venezuela/ethnology ; Adolescent ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Anxiety
Περίληψη: Pre-migration crisis exposures and post-migration cultural stressors predict mental health symptoms among Venezuelan migrant youth. However, less is known about the independent and interactive effects of pre- and post-migration stressors on multiple mental health symptoms and whether these associations vary across specific types of cultural stressors among Venezuelan youth. Importantly, few studies have examined how these associations are patterned across two major destinations for Venezuelan migrants-the United States (US) and Colombia. The present study was designed to examine how pre-migration crisis exposures and post-migration cultural stressors (acculturative stress, discrimination, and negative context of reception) independently and interactively predict depressive, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among Venezuelan youth resettling in the US and Colombia. The sample included 732 Venezuelan youth: 302 in the US (51% girls; Mage = 14.03, SD = 1.69) and 430 in Colombia (49.4% girls; Mage = 14.04, SD = 1.62). Pre-migration crisis exposures did not predict any of the mental health symptoms in either country. Discrimination positively predicted depressive and anxiety symptoms in the US, whereas acculturative stress positively predicted depressive and anxiety symptoms in Colombia. Significant interaction effects emerged in both countries, such that pre-migration crisis exposures buffered the associations of post-migration cultural stressors with mental health symptoms. Specifically, in the US, pre-migration crisis exposure moderated the association between discrimination and PTSD symptoms, whereas in Colombia, it moderated the association between acculturative stress and depressive symptoms. Findings underscore the need to account for the types of cultural stressors and symptom dimensions across different destination contexts among Venezuelan youth.
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Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. There are also no financial disclosures to report.
Grant Information: R01 MD015920 United States MD NIMHD NIH HHS
Contributed Indexing: Keywords: Adolescence; Crisis migrants; Cultural stressors; Mental health; Venezuelan diaspora
Entry Date(s): Date Created: 20260519 Date Completed: 20260612 Latest Revision: 20260726
Update Code: 20260726
PubMed Central ID: PMC13398214
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119406
PMID: 42155182
Βάση Δεδομένων: MEDLINE