Ethnic Identity among Sansei and Yonsei Church-Affiliated Youth in Los Angeles and Honolulu

Wooden, Wayne S.; Leon, Joseph J.; Toshima, Michelle T.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1988.62.1.268

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“…Traditionally, it has been suggested that immigrants invariably discarded the values of their culture of origin and accommodated to the mainstream host culture (Phinney, 1990;. Although this may have been possible (whether or not desirable) for European immigrants, it was more difficult for nonwhite Americans with backgrounds vastly different than that of European Americans (Wooden, Leon, & Toshima, 1988). With increasing awareness and appreciation for the growing cultural diversity in the United States, it has been postulated that instead of a linear perspective where endorsement of one culture necessarily implicated rejection of another, a two-dimensional approach may be more valid.…”

Section: Cultural Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural orientation and psychological well‐being in Chinese Americans

Ying

1995

American J of Comm Psychol

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Examined cultural orientation in the domains of language proficiency, cultural activity, and social relationship, and its relationship with psychological well-being in a group of 143 Chinese Americans in San Francisco. Four indicators of psychological well-being were utilized, two assessing the experience of distress (depression level and negative affect) and two assessing positive well-being (positive affect and life satisfaction). Domain-specific cultural orientations were found to hold differential relationships with psychological well-being. For instance, bicultural activity orientation predicted the best psychological well-being (regardless as to how it was assessed), but socially separatist individuals experienced less negative affect than assimilated and bicultural respondents. Findings were discussed in the context of the multicultural setting of San Francisco. It is suggested that future research retain separate assessments of domain-specific cultural orientation, examine the contribution of the community's ethnic/cultural composition to its members' cultural orientations (i.e., address the role of person--environment fit) and study their impact on psychological well-being.

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Section: Cultural Orientationmentioning

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Cultural orientation and psychological well‐being in Chinese Americans

Ying

1995

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…The incremental increase in acculturation from the earliest generation category (Issei) to the latest category (Yonsei) adds support for the face validity of the acculturation measure. In addition, the distinctions beyond third generation individuals tapers off, perhaps because Japanese Americans "have reached a point in history where changes in acculturation are minimal" (Wooden, Leon, & Toshima, 1988). In addition, the brief acculturation scale accounts for half of the variation in the full 21-item SL-ASIA.…”

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Development of a brief scale to measure acculturation among Japanese Americans

Meredith

Wenger

Liu

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J. Community Psychol.

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“…Recently, a Hawaiian acculturation scale was developed as a cultural measure of Hawaiianess in addition to self-reported blood quantum measures (Rezentes, 1993 (Montgomery, 1992;Mendoza, 1989;Franco, 1983;Cuellar, 1980), Asians (Suinn, 1987), Japanese-Americans (Wooden, 1988;Newton, 1988) Navajo (Boyce, 1983), Israeli-born Jews (Dor-Shav, 1990), Greek Cypriot immigrants to London (Mavreas, 1989) and multiple ethnic groups (Phinney, 1992;Sodowsky, 1991;Wong-Rieger, 1987). …”

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Does Acculturation Influence Psychosocial Adaptation and Well-Being in Native Hawaiians?

Streltzer¹,

Rezentes²,

Arakaki³

1996

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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Native Hawaiians have suffered higher disease rates and achieved lower educational and economic levels than other ethnic groups living in Hawaii. This study tests the hypothesis that cultural affiliation protects against psychosocial pathology in Hawaiians. Subjects included 172 Hawaiians of varying blood quantum and 92 non-Hawaiians. The Na Mea Hawai'i, a rationally derived, empirically validated measure of Hawaiian acculturation was administered to all subjects in addition to psychological tests which included 19 visual analogue scales that measure both state and trait variables. The Na Mea Hawai'i proved excellent at differentiating Hawaiians from non-Hawaiians (p = .0001), and it correlated well with blood quantum (r = 0.31, p = .0001). Low acculturation scores among Hawaiians did not correlate with any measure of discontent or psychosocial pathology irrespective of blood quantum. We conclude that Na Mea Hawai'i is a valid measure of Hawaiian acculturation, and that adaptation of the Hawaiians in our sample has been unaffected by level of acculturation.

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Ethnic Identity among Sansei and Yonsei Church-Affiliated Youth in Los Angeles and Honolulu

Cited by 22 publications

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Cultural orientation and psychological well‐being in Chinese Americans

Cultural orientation and psychological well‐being in Chinese Americans

Development of a brief scale to measure acculturation among Japanese Americans

Does Acculturation Influence Psychosocial Adaptation and Well-Being in Native Hawaiians?

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