The Associations Between Culture-Related Stressors and Prosocial Behaviors in U.S. Latino/a College Students: The Mediating Role of Cultural Identity

The Associations Between Culture-Related Stressors and Prosocial Behaviors in U.S. Latino/a College Students: The Mediating Role of Cultural Identity

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U.S.Latino/a college students face distinct stressors, including acculturative stress and enculturative stress, impacting their capacity to engage in prosocial behaviors (voluntary actions benefiting others).

Cultural stress can deplete resources essential to engaging in altruistic acts (selflessly motivated helping), yet it can also stimulate selfishly motivated prosocial behaviors.The present study examines how cultural adjustment stressors and cultural identity relate to prosocial behaviors among U.S.

Latino/a Headlamps college students.A sample of 1450 U.S.

Latino/a college students (M age = 19.7 years; SD = 1.61; 75.

4% women) completed an online survey assessing their levels of enculturative and acculturative stress, ethnic and U.S.identity, and cam altruistic and public prosocial behaviors.

A path analysis revealed that higher enculturative stress is associated with lower ethnic identity, which, in turn, predicts increased public prosocial behaviors.Conversely, acculturative stress is linked with higher ethnic identity, leading to elevated public prosocial behaviors.The discussion underscores the importance of mitigating culture-related stress that can stem from home and U.

S.society to enhance the well-being of U.S.

Latino/as.