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Examines how acculturation affects depressive symptoms in Hispanic youth, suggesting biculturalism might help reduce these symptoms.
= 339; 80.0%). For the overall sample and Hispanic non-SMY, adolescents' own Hispanicism and Americanism and parent Americanism buffered adolescent depressive symptoms. There were no significant associations between adolescent or parent Hispanicism or Americanism and HSMY depressive symptoms, however, the effect sizes for HSMY were larger than those of the overall sample and Hispanic non-SMY, suggesting that the study was underpowered to detect statistical significance with the limited sample size. Americanism and Hispanicism may mitigate depressive symptoms among Hispanic youth, speaking to the importance of biculturalism in Hispanic families.
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