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Associations of Work-Related Injuries and Stress to Family and Youth Wellbeing among U.S. Latino/a Immigrant Cattle Feedyard Workers

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  • Gustavo Carlo

    (School of Education, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA)

  • Meredith McGinley

    (Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Parkside, Kenosha, WI 53144, USA)

  • Sahitya Maiya

    (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA)

  • Athena K. Ramos

    (College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA)

Abstract

Based on the Ecological Stress-Based Model of Immigrant Worker Safety and Health, we hypothesized that occupational stress and physical safety would be negatively linked to workers’ depression, which in turn, would increase family conflict and decrease youth prosocial behaviors. A total of 242 Latino immigrant cattle feedyard workers from Nebraska and Kansas (90.9% male; M age = 37.7 years) answered questions assessing depression, occupational stress, whether they had ever been injured at work, familial conflict, and youth prosocial behaviors. All four indirect relations among occupational stress and injury and the outcomes (family conflict and youth prosocial behaviors) via depressive symptomatology were significant. Additionally, ever injured was negatively related to youth prosocial behaviors and occupational stress was positively related to youth prosocial behaviors. The findings support our model and suggest that increased stress and work-related injuries on cattle feedyards are linked to mental health problems, which in turn, is linked to more conflict experienced at home and less youth prosocial behaviors. Feedyard employers should focus on improving safety culture including providing robust training in the workplace. Practical implications to improve availability and access to mental and behavioral health resources to mitigate negative family outcomes are provided.

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  • Gustavo Carlo & Meredith McGinley & Sahitya Maiya & Athena K. Ramos, 2023. "Associations of Work-Related Injuries and Stress to Family and Youth Wellbeing among U.S. Latino/a Immigrant Cattle Feedyard Workers," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(4), pages 1-12, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2023:i:4:p:3361-:d:1068459
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    1. Athena K. Ramos & Suraj Adhikari & Aaron M. Yoder & Risto H. Rautiainen, 2021. "Occupational Injuries among Latino/a Immigrant Cattle Feedyard Workers in the Central States Region of the United States," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(16), pages 1-13, August.
    2. Sloane Burke Winkelman & Elizabeth H. Chaney & Jeffrey W. Bethel, 2013. "Stress, Depression and Coping among Latino Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-16, May.
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