scholarly journals A person-centered examination of acculturation and psychological functioning among Chinese and Korean immigrant mothers in the United States.

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Huiguang Ren ◽  
Charissa S. L. Cheah ◽  
Madiha Tahseen ◽  
Nan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Immigrant Mothers ◽  
Korean Immigrant Mothers

Perceived Experiences of Korean Immigrant Mothers Raising Children With Disabilities in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 104365962110629
Author(s):  
Anna Lee ◽  
Vicky J.-H. Yeh ◽  
Kathleen A. Knafl ◽  
Marcia Van Riper
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Immigrant Mothers ◽  
Korean Mothers ◽  
Family Demands ◽  
Perceived Experiences ◽  
Korean Immigrant Mothers

Introduction: The challenges of acculturation that immigrant families experience could intensify if they have a child with a disability. This qualitative descriptive study aimed to describe the experiences of Korean mothers raising children with a disability in the United States. Methodology: Semi-structured interviews were conducted based on the Resilience Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation. Directed content analysis was used. Results: Six Korean mothers participated in the interview and 16 codes were identified in relation to the five concepts of the Resilience Model, namely family demands, family resources, family appraisal, family problem-solving and coping, and family adaptation. Overall, mothers thought their families were well-functioning and viewed their quality of life positively within the context of immigration despite experiencing various family demands. Discussion: Findings of this study showed the resilience of Korean immigrant mothers and revealed the importance of understanding and considering unique cultural differences when providing care to this population.

Intimate Partner Violence among Korean Immigrant Women in the United States: Intersectionality of Gender Norms, Immigration, and Socioeconomic Status

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110179
Author(s):  
Sei-Young Lee ◽  
Ga-Young Choi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Korean Immigrant Women

With the theory of feminist intersectionality, this study examined intimate partner violence (IPV) among Korean immigrant women focusing on gender norms, immigration, and socioeconomic status in the contexts of Korean culture. A total of 83 Korean immigrant women who were receiving a social service from non-profit agencies in ethnically diverse urban areas were recruited with a purposive sampling method. Hierarchical regressions were conducted to examine changes in variance explained by models. Having non-traditional gender norms, a college degree or higher education, immigrant life stresses, and living longer in the United States were positively associated with IPV while having higher income and being more fluent in English were negatively associated with IPV. Findings were discussed to understand Korean immigrant women’s internal conflict affected by their higher education and more egalitarian gender norms under the patriarchal cultural norms while experiencing immigrant life stresses and living in the United States. Implication for practice was also discussed.

Hwabyung Experiences Among Korean Immigrant Women in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonghyun Lee ◽  
Anna Martin-Jearld ◽  
Kate Robinson ◽  
Susan Price
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Korean Immigrant Women

Times, Tempos, and the Rhythm of Fast Fashion in Los Angeles and Seoul

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-282
Author(s):  
Christina H. Moon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Material Object ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Downtown Los Angeles ◽  
The City

Fast fashion is often a story about the most powerful global retail giants such as Zara and H&M. The rise and dominance of fast fashion within the United States, however, areintimately tied to the work of Korean immigrant communities within downtown Los Angeles. In the last decade alone, Koreans have refashioned the city of Los Angeles into the central hub of fast fashion in the Americas, designing and distributing clothing from Asia to the largest fast-fashion retailers throughout the Americas. This chapter explores the work of these fast-fashion families who blur the lines between design and copy, author and imitator, exploiter and exploited. How do their modes of work profoundly transform the material object of clothing? How do they complicate the assumed directions and global flows of design and production in the global fashion industry? And finally, what role does risk and failure play—in a landscape of creativity, aspiration, and imagining—to make fast fashion even a possibility?

Parenting Across Two Worlds: Low-Income Latina Immigrants’ Adaptation to Motherhood in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 711-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen K. Vesely ◽  
Bethany L. Letiecq ◽  
Rachael D. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latina Immigrants ◽  
Immigrant Mothers ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
Gendered Roles ◽  
Community Supports ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study explored how low-income documented and undocumented Latina immigrant mothers negotiate motherhood and adapt to life in new cultural and structural contexts. Grounded in ecocultural theory, we analyzed data from 21 in-depth interviews with Latina immigrant mothers to surface how their experiences of motherhood in the United States were shaped by their country of origin experiences and their situatedness in the United States. We documented emergent tensions related to their immigration context, often driven by changes in their legal status as they crossed borders, changes in family and community supports, and differing cultural expectations of their gendered roles as caregivers and family members. These tensions forced mothers to renegotiate and adjust their perceptions, identities, and roles as women, mothers, partners, and members of larger, often transnational kin and community networks. Implications of these tensions and identity and role shifts in the context of immigrant family life in the United States are discussed.

scholarly journals Sex Differences in the Heritability of Resilience

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason D. Boardman ◽  
Casey L. Blalock ◽  
Tanya M. M. Button
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Dizygotic Twin ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Environmental Mastery ◽  
Exhaustive List

AbstractWe examine the heritability of psychological resilience among US adults aged 25 to 74 years. Using monozygotic and same sex dizygotic twin pairs from the National Survey of Mid-Life Development in the United States (MIDUS) we show that positive affect is equally heritable among men (h2= .60) and women (h2= .59). We then estimate the heritability of positive affect after controlling for an exhaustive list of social and inter-personal stressors, and we operationalize the residual for positive affect as resilience. According to this specification, the heritability of resilience is higher among men (h2= .52) compared to women (h2= .38). We show that self-acceptance is one of the most important aspects of psychological functioning that accounts for the heritability of resilience among both men and women. However, compared to women, men appear to derive additional benefits from environmental mastery that may enable otherwise sex-neutral resilient tendencies to manifest.

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