The use of cultural identity in predicting health lifestyle behaviors in Latinx immigrant adolescents.

OBJECTIVES This study explored whether cultural identity predicts health lifestyle behaviors. METHOD Participants included 302 recently immigrated (<5 years in the U.S.) Latinx adolescents (53% boys; mean age 14.51 years at baseline) from Miami and Los Angeles. Participants completed cultural identity measures at baseline and 1-year post baseline. A path analysis was used to estimate associations between cultural identities (ethnic, national,...