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This version was published on August 1, 2008
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 30, No. 3, 357-378 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0739986308318713

Family Cohesion and Its Relationship to Psychological Distress Among Latino Groups

Fernando I. Rivera

University of Central Florida, firivera{at}mail.ucf.edu

Peter J. Guarnaccia

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Norah Mulvaney-Day

Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School

Julia Y. Lin

Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School

Maria Torres

Brandeis University

Margarita Alegría

Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School

This article presents analyses of a representative sample of U.S. Latinos (N = 2,540) to investigate whether family cohesion moderates the effects of cultural conflict on psychological distress. The results for the aggregated Latino group suggest a significant association between family cohesion and lower psychological distress, and the combination of strong family cohesion with presence of family cultural conflict is associated with higher psychological distress. However, this association differs by Latino groups. In this study, no association for Puerto Ricans is seen; Cuban results are similar to the aggregate group, family cultural conflict in Mexicans is associated with higher psychological distress whereas family cohesion in other Latinos is associated with higher psychological distress. Implications of these findings are discussed to unravel the differences in family dynamics across Latino subethnic groups.

Key Words: family cohesion • family conflict • psychological distress • Latino ethnic groups


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