Journal of Latinx Psychology, Vol 14(1), Feb 2026, 34-49; doi:10.1037/lat0000291
Mexican workers are subject to multiple stressors including discrimination, separation from families, poverty and health and safety hazards as they perform the difficult work that supports the U.S. Agricultural Industry. In Study 1, 151 Mexican or Mexican-American farmworkers completed a survey assessing their levels of acculturation, enculturation, familismo/familism, and daily spiritual practice as predictive of resilience and quality of life. Results from multiple regression analyses indicated that together, gender, U.S. citizenship, familismo, acculturation, enculturation, and spirituality accounted for 23.5% of the variance in resilience scores and accounted for 14% of the variance in quality-of-life scores. In Study 2, 100 injured Mexican/Mexican-American industrial workers completed the same set of measures. Similar results were obtained in that gender, U.S. citizenship, familismo, acculturation, enculturation, and spirituality accounted for 11.6% of the variance in resilience scores and 28.3% of the variance in quality-of-life scores. Results were interpreted within the context of the Relational and Resilience Theory of Ethnic Family Systems that places the family system at the center of the ecological family system, fostering important protective factors such as the ancestral past and respective cultural values, beliefs, traditions, practices, and expectations that contribute to resilience and quality of life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)