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

Gustavo Carlo (), Meredith McGinley, Sahitya Maiya and Athena K. Ramos
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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

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 4, 1-12

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.

Keywords: agricultural workers; Latino/Hispanic; occupational safety; mental health; prosocial behaviors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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