Perceived family relationships and depressed mood in early and late adolescence:  A comparison of European and Asian Americans.

Greenberger, Ellen; Chen, Chuansheng

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.32.4.707

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“…Other scholars came to similar conclusions. Greenberger and Chen (1996) suggest that high levels of stress were characteristic for Asian immigrants as well (p. 714). Ultimately, high levels of distress among immigrants exacerbate existing challenges in the acculturation process, and in the ability to integrate successfully into the community.…”

Section: Negative Aftermaths Of a Difficult Acculturation Processmentioning

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Acculturation Process of Arab-Muslim Immigrants in the United States

Wekhian¹

2015

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While globalization has made this world smaller, interdependent, and heterogeneous, clashes among different cultures became inevitable. Immigrants leave their home country for many reasons, by choice or necessity. The U.S. is considered one of the countries that enjoys its cultural diversity. In the case of Arab-Muslim immigrants, they came to the U.S. either seeking a better life, or fleeing prosecution. They come from completely different culture, language, and religion. This move makes them prone to experience one or more challenges: assimilation, integration, separation, or marginalization. Since assimilation is very hard to achieve, integration is the ideal choice for which scholars aspier. This paper investigates the acculturation process of Arab-Muslim immigrants in the U.S. Results showed a variety of potential barriers exist hindering Arab-Muslim immigrants from successful integration into the United States society. Cultural and religious differences, distinctions in moral and ethical values, perception of gender relations, demonization of the Arab population in mass media, and discrimination are the major factors causing the overall struggles of the acculturation process.

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Acculturation Process of Arab-Muslim Immigrants in the United States

Wekhian¹

2015

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“…The possible comorbid relationship between poor mental health and heavy drinking is a concern particularly for Asian Americans who report higher rates of depression than other racial/ethnic groups (Gee, 2004;Iwamoto, Liu & McCoy, 2011;Okazaki, 1997;Young, Fang, & Zisook, 2010). Similarly, a higher prevalence rate of depression was also found among Asian college students regardless of gender (Greenberger & Chen, 1996;Kim & Chun, 1993). Asian American adolescent females have been found to be at particularly higher risk than White adolescent females for reporting major depressive disorder (9.7% vs.…”

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“…5.7%, respectively) (Greenberger & Chen, 1996). Asian American women in the 15-24 age group are documented to have the highest suicide rates compared to all other racial/ethnic groups while Asian American men have the second highest suicide rate in the same age range compared to other racial/ethnic groups (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, 2003).…”

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Heavy Drinking, Poor Mental Health, and Substance Use Among Asian Americans in the NLAAS: A Gender-Based Comparison

Cheng¹,

Lee²,

Iwamoto³

2011

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The severity of heavy drinking among Asian Americans has often been dismissed because of relatively low rates compared to other racial/ethnic groups. However, higher depression and suicide rates among Asian Americans and their association to alcohol use suggest serious detrimental effects of heavy alcohol use among Asian Americans. Gender differences in heavy drinking have been documented among other immigrant based ethnic minorities, little is known of this pattern for Asian Americans. The purpose of the present study was to examine gender differences in heavy drinking, poor mental health, and substance use among a national sample of Asian Americans (N = 581) in the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). Using National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) guidelines, heavy drinkers were categorized as those who exceeded the recommended weekly number of drinks (≥14 drinks/week for male and ≥7 drinks/week for female). Accordingly, six comparison groups were created (male non, light, and heavy drinkers, and female non, light, and heavy drinkers). Pearson's chi-square test was conducted to examine percentage distribution for the six groups for mental health disorders (i.e., suicidality, DSM-IV mental health endorsement for past 12-month and lifetime). Logistic regression was followed to determined predictors for heavy drinking behavior for men and for women. Female heavy drinkers reported significantly poorer mental health than non drinkers, light drinkers and male heavy drinkers, as indicated by higher rates of lifetime generalized anxiety, and depressive disorders. In contrast, male heavy drinkers were more likely to have lifetime substance use disorders. Findings suggest the need to develop gender-specific drinking interventions for Asian Americans that focus on improving mental health among women and substance treatment among men. (Fong & Tsuang, 2007;Iwamoto, Corbin, & Fromme, 2010;Ja & Aoki, 1993). KeywordsAggregating Asian subgroups in national surveys, the lack of sampling among subgroups where heavy drinking or greater than or equal to 14 drinks/week for male and greater than or equal to seven drinks/week for female (NIAAA) is more prevalent (e.g., refugee, college age), and methodological differences in the measurements used to assess alcohol and substance use, obscure important clinical needs and issues related to alcohol use among Asian Americans (Fong & Tsuang, 2007;Ja & Aoki, 1993;Zane & Sasao, 1992 et al., 2004). Further, compelling evidence suggests that Asian American heavy drinkers experience a higher rate of negative consequences compared to heavy drinkers of other ethnicities, suggesting that Asian Americans experience significant health disparities and problems due to problematic alcohol use (Ja & Aoki, 1993;Park, Shibusawa, Yoon, & Son, 2010). Given the rise of alcohol problems among certain Asian American groups, the purpose of this study is to extend the literature by identifying risk factors of heavy drinking among a national sample of Asian Americans.Heavy...

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“…The null hypothesis is that the regression coefficients for the predictors of antisocial behavior are the same for all ethnic groups (see, e.g., Greenberger & Chen, 1996):…”

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Testing Inequality Constrained Hypotheses in SEM Models

Schoot

Hoijtink

Deković

2010

Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary J.

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Researchers often have expectations that can be expressed in the form of inequality constraints among the parameters of a structural equation model. It is currently not possible to test these so-called informative hypotheses in structural equation modeling software. We offer a solution to this problem using Mplus. The hypotheses are evaluated using plug-in p values with a calibrated alpha level. The method is introduced and its utility is illustrated by means of an example.Order-restricted inference has been studied in the frequentist framework (see, e.g., Barlow, Bartholomew, Bremner, & Brunk, 1972;Robertson, Wright, & Dykstra, 1988;Silvapulle & Sen, 2004) as well as in the Bayesian framework (e.g., Hoijtink, Klugkist, & Boelen, 2008;Klugkist, Laudy, & Hoijtink, 2005). However, testing order constraints has received relatively little attention in the structural equation modeling (SEM) literature (Gonzalez & Griffin, 2001; Stoel, Galindo-Garre, Dolan, & Van den Wittenboer, 2006). SEM is often used and its attractiveness is largely due to its flexibility in specifying and testing hypotheses among both observed and latent variables in multiple groups.SEM software can be used to impose inequality constraints among the parameters of interest. More specifically, to evaluate a research question, model parameters such as regression coefficients can be constrained to being greater or smaller than either a fixed value or other regression coefficients. We call hypotheses that contain inequality constraints informative hypotheses. Mplus (Muthén & Muthén, 2007) allows for such user-specified constraints and order constraint parameter estimation is available. The problem is that a null hypothesis test for the evaluation of an informative hypothesis is lacking in SEM software.

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Perceived family relationships and depressed mood in early and late adolescence: A comparison of European and Asian Americans.

Cited by 273 publications

References 24 publications

Acculturation Process of Arab-Muslim Immigrants in the United States

Acculturation Process of Arab-Muslim Immigrants in the United States

Heavy Drinking, Poor Mental Health, and Substance Use Among Asian Americans in the NLAAS: A Gender-Based Comparison

Testing Inequality Constrained Hypotheses in SEM Models

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