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Miguel Ángel Cano is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences, Medicine, and Psychology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Epidemiology, and Physiology.

The scientist's work focuses on several key topics, including:

  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Homelessness and Social Issues

Miguel Ángel Cano has published extensively on themes related to mental health, social identity, and health disparities, often focusing on Hispanic and minority populations. Frequent publication venues include:

  • International Journal of Intercultural Relations
  • Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Behavioral Medicine
  • Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Some of the recent scholarly articles authored by Miguel Ángel Cano include:

  • Depressive Symptoms and Resilience among Hispanic Emerging Adults: Examining the Moderating Effects of Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, Family Cohesion, and Social Support (2020), Behavioral Medicine
  • Depression and Gender Roles among Hispanic Immigrant Women: Examining Associations of Gender Egalitarianism, Marianismo, and Self-Silencing (2020), Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
  • Exposure to ethnic discrimination in social media and symptoms of anxiety and depression among Hispanic emerging adults: Examining the moderating role of gender (2020), Journal of Clinical Psychology

Their frequent collaborators include Mariana Sánchez, Mario De La Rosa, Seth J. Schwartz, Marcel A. de Dios, and Patria Rojas, reflecting sustained co-authorship in research addressing social and health issues within ethnic minority communities.

Best Publications

  • Dimensions of acculturation: associations with health risk behaviors among college students from immigrant families.

    Seth J. Schwartz;Robert S. Weisskirch;Byron L. Zamboanga;Linda G. Castillo

  • Associations between health literacy and established predictors of smoking cessation.

    Diana W. Stewart;Claire E. Adams;Miguel A. Cano;Virmarie Correa-Fernández

  • Family conflict and intragroup marginalization as predictors of acculturative stress in Latino college students.

    Linda G. Castillo;Miguel A. Cano;Sylvia W. Chen;Ryan T. Blucker

  • Trajectories of Cultural Stressors and Effects on Mental Health and Substance Use Among Hispanic Immigrant Adolescents

    Seth J. Schwartz;Jennifer B. Unger;Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati;Byron L. Zamboanga

  • Depressive symptoms and externalizing behaviors among Hispanic immigrant adolescents: Examining longitudinal effects of cultural stress

    Miguel Ángel Cano;Seth J. Schwartz;Linda G. Castillo;Andrea J. Romero

  • The longitudinal associations between discrimination, depressive symptoms, and prosocial behaviors in U.S. latino/a recent immigrant adolescents

    Alexandra N. Davis;Gustavo Carlo;Seth J. Schwartz;Jennifer B. Unger

  • Latino parent acculturation stress: Longitudinal effects on family functioning and youth emotional and behavioral health.

    Elma I. Lorenzo-Blanco;Alan Meca;Jennifer B. Unger;Andrea Romero

  • Health Literacy, Smoking, and Health Indicators in African American Adults.

    Diana Stewart Hoover;Jennifer I. Vidrine;Sanjay Shete;Claire A. Spears

  • Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Cervical Cancer Screening Among Latinas

    Angelica M. Roncancio;Kristy K. Ward;Ingrid A. Sanchez;Miguel A. Cano

  • Lower health literacy predicts smoking relapse among racially/ethnically diverse smokers with low socioeconomic status

    Diana W Stewart;Miguel Ángel Cano;Virmarie Correa-Fernández;Claire Adams Spears

  • The Role of Enculturation and Acculturation on Latina College Student Distress

    Miguel Ángel Cano;Linda G. Castillo

  • Perceived neighborhood social cohesion moderates the relationship between neighborhood structural disadvantage and adolescent depressive symptoms.

    Christyl T. Dawson;Wensong Wu;Kristopher P. Fennie;Gladys Ibañez

  • Biculturalism dynamics: A daily diary study of bicultural identity and psychosocial functioning

    Seth J. Schwartz;Alan Meca;Colleen Ward;Ágnes Szabó

  • Longitudinal Effects of Latino Parent Cultural Stress, Depressive Symptoms, and Family Functioning on Youth Emotional Well-Being and Health Risk Behaviors.

    Elma I. Lorenzo-Blanco;Alan Meca;Jennifer B. Unger;Andrea Romero

  • Immigration Stress and Alcohol Use Severity Among Recently Immigrated Hispanic Adults: Examining Moderating Effects of Gender, Immigration Status, and Social Support.

    Miguel Ángel Cano;Mariana Sánchez;Mary Jo Trepka;Frank R. Dillon

  • Identity development in immigrant youth: A multilevel contextual perspective.

    Seth J. Schwartz;Alan Meca;Miguel Ángel Cano;Elma I. Lorenzo-Blanco

  • Depressive Symptoms and Resilience among Hispanic Emerging Adults: Examining the Moderating Effects of Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, Family Cohesion, and Social Support.

    Miguel Ángel Cano;Felipe González Castro;Mario De La Rosa;Hortensia Amaro

  • Immigration Stress among Recent Latino Immigrants: The Protective Role of Social Support and Religious Social Capital.

    Mariana Sanchez;Stephanie Diez;Nicole M. Fava;Elena Cyrus

  • Depressive symptom domains and alcohol use severity among Hispanic emerging adults: Examining moderating effects of gender.

    Miguel Ángel Cano;Marcel A. de Dios;Virmarie Correa-Fernández;Sarah Childress

  • Alcohol use severity and depressive symptoms among late adolescent Hispanics: Testing associations of acculturation and enculturation in a bicultural transaction model.

    Miguel Ángel Cano;Marcel A. de Dios;Yessenia Castro;Ellen L. Vaughan

  • Predictors of Participation in an eHealth, Family-Based Preventive Intervention for Hispanic Youth.

    Tatiana Perrino;Yannine Estrada;Shi Huang;Sara St. George

  • Associations of ethnic discrimination with symptoms of anxiety and depression among Hispanic emerging adults: a moderated mediation model

    Miguel Ángel Cano;Yessenia Castro;Marcel Alejandro de Dios;Seth J. Schwartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Seth J. Schwartz
Seth J. Schwartz The University of Texas at Austin
Byron L. Zamboanga
Byron L. Zamboanga University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Jennifer B. Unger
Jennifer B. Unger University of Southern California
David W. Wetter
David W. Wetter University of Utah
Daniel W. Soto
Daniel W. Soto University of Southern California
José Szapocznik
José Szapocznik University of Miami
Linda G. Castillo
Linda G. Castillo Texas A&M University
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati University of Southern California
David Córdova
David Córdova University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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