Societal stressors, adaptive factors, and developmental timing: Influences on Latinx mental health from early childhood to young adulthood.

Itai Himelboim is a co-Investigator on a grant proposal funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (which is part of the National Institutes of Health). The multiple PI project is a collaboration that includes Cindy Suveg in UGA’s Franklin College Psychology Department along with PI’s Katy Roche of George Washington University and Esther Calzada of the University of Texas-Austin. Total funding for the project is ~$3.9 million over five years, with the UGA component accounting for $274,868,

Project Title: Societal stressors, adaptive factors, and developmental timing: Influences on Latinx mental health from early childhood to young adulthood 

Project Overview: This research will examine how distal and proximal societal stressors influence mental health trajectories for a diverse sample of US Latinx youth followed from early childhood into young adulthood. Distal societal stressors, such as the pandemic, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and neighborhood ethnic marginalization, may increase Latinx youth’s internalizing symptoms directly and indirectly through proximal societal stressors, such as families’ COVID-related economic, health, and social problems and individuals’ perceptions of immigrant threats and ethnic discrimination.