Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, Vol 32(3), Jul 2026, 453-463; doi:10.1037/cdp0000754
Objective: The goal of the present study was to cumulatively examine the effects of familial and material needs on rural Mexican adolescents’ anxiety symptoms and stress, as assessed by anxiety symptoms and perceived stress. Additionally, we investigated whether individual- and family-level factors—resilience and family cohesion—moderate the links between familial and material needs and anxiety symptoms and stress. Method: Participants were 200 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 (Mage = 14.9; 58% girls) from two public schools in a rural town in the State of Mexico, Mexico, who completed paper surveys. Results: Hierarchical regressions revealed that difficult family situations, but not material needs, were positively and statistically significantly associated with anxiety symptoms (b = .18, p b = .15, p