TY - JOUR
T1 - The Effects of Hispanic Immigrant Mother’s Resiliency on Children’s Dietary Adjustment
AU - Villegas, Elizabeth
AU - Wiley, Angela
AU - Hannon, Bridget
AU - Teran-Garcia, Margarita
AU - Hammons, Amber
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - This study explored the adjustment phase of the resiliency model of family adjustment and adaptation, particularly how stress and food insecurity interact with protective mechanisms to influence children’s dietary adjustment. With increasing rates of Hispanic childhood obesity and disproportionate health disparities, this is an issue that must be better understood. Altogether, 137 Mexican immigrant mothers from Illinois and California completed questionnaires reporting their stressors, protective mechanisms, and family health behaviors. Multiple regression analyses revealed that higher perceived stress levels for mothers predicted non-nutritive snacking reasons. Furthermore, mother’s dietary patterns predicted child’s poor dietary quality. Taken together, maternal stressors play a role in family health behaviors, and future studies should consider household food environment factors when trying to understand protective mechanisms for families.
AB - This study explored the adjustment phase of the resiliency model of family adjustment and adaptation, particularly how stress and food insecurity interact with protective mechanisms to influence children’s dietary adjustment. With increasing rates of Hispanic childhood obesity and disproportionate health disparities, this is an issue that must be better understood. Altogether, 137 Mexican immigrant mothers from Illinois and California completed questionnaires reporting their stressors, protective mechanisms, and family health behaviors. Multiple regression analyses revealed that higher perceived stress levels for mothers predicted non-nutritive snacking reasons. Furthermore, mother’s dietary patterns predicted child’s poor dietary quality. Taken together, maternal stressors play a role in family health behaviors, and future studies should consider household food environment factors when trying to understand protective mechanisms for families.
KW - Family resiliency model
KW - Hispanic health
KW - Perceived stress
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U2 - 10.1007/s10903-018-0810-x
DO - 10.1007/s10903-018-0810-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 30136166
AN - SCOPUS:85052644905
SN - 1557-1912
VL - 21
SP - 778
EP - 786
JO - Journal of immigrant and minority health
JF - Journal of immigrant and minority health
IS - 4
ER -