Factors Contributing to Korean American Undergraduates' Well-Being: A Psychosociocultural Study

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristal H. Lee ◽  
Jeanett Castellanos ◽  
Alberta M. Gloria
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Korean American

The Antecedents and Consequences of Subjective Well-Being among Sport Participants: The Case of Korean American Sports Festival

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyu-soo Chung
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

The purpose of this study is to reveal the role of ethnic sport participants' subjective well-being as it interacts with its antecedents and consequences. The antecedents are participants' perceived benefits of sport participation and their satisfaction with an event. The consequences are participants' organizational commitment and their ethnic identity. The dynamics of subjective well-being and those constructs were tested at the 2015 Korean American Sports Festival where 283 Korean American participants reported on self-administered questionnaires. The collected data were first analyzed via confirmatory factor analysis; structural equation modeling was then used to secure the magnitude and significance of each path designed in the model. The social, psychological, and health benefits of sport participation positively affected satisfaction with the event, and satisfaction in turn affected subjective well-being. Subjective well-being positively influenced organizational commitment. Ethnic identity had a mediating effect on the relation between subjective well-being and organizational commitment. This study highlights the importance of ethnic sport participants' subjective well-being in understanding how the quality of their experience makes them committed to an ethnic sport organization. Ethnic sporting events can implement the findings to facilitate an increase in the subjective well-being of their events' participants.

“Actions Speak Louder Than Words”: Korean American Emerging Adults’ Perceptions and Meaning Making of Their Parents’ Instrumental Aspects of Parenting

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 644-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeyoung Kang ◽  
Kristy Shih
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Family Processes ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Immigrant Family ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Semistructured Interviews

Drawing on semistructured interviews, this study explored 25 Korean American emerging adults’ experience of their parents’ parenting, focusing on the aspects of parenting they perceive as salient as well as their perceptions and interpretations of such experiences. The majority of our respondents highlighted instrumental aspects of their parents’ parenting which includes different ways that their parents provide instrumental tools for their well-being and success, such as material provision and service for children. Importantly, they attributed significant meaning to these parental actions. Youth’s recognition of and appreciation for their parents’ instrumental aspects of parenting was shaped by the immigrant family context as well as an increase in cultural understanding and perspective taking of their parents. Taken together, this study suggests the importance of examining sociocultural contexts of family processes to better understand experiences of youth from diverse immigrant and cultural groups.

Community Context

2018 ◽  
pp. 36-61
Author(s):  
Sumie Okazaki ◽  
Nancy Abelmann
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Primary Driver ◽  
Survey Responses

This chapter describes the research process, from survey data collection to family ethnography. It details the ethnic geography of the Chicagoland Korean American community through ethnographic observations of the churches, neighborhoods, social service agencies, and schools that mattered in the lives of the Korean Americans in the book. The survey included 204 Korean American teens and 102 parents, from whom five families were selected and followed. The chapter briefly discusses what the survey revealed about how the Chicagoland Korean American parents and teens viewed individual and family well-being. Among Korean American teen, their perception of how well their family was functioning correlated highly with their individual psychological distress and wellness. However, although the survey responses did reveal glimpses of parent-child acculturation gaps and individual distress, the survey findings did not conform very well to the familiar story of a generational gap in acculturation between parents and teens as the primary driver of family or individual difficulties. Whereas the survey gives a broad brushstroke picture of Korean American families with teens, it also left many intriguing questions to be answered. The chapter ends with a description of how the families were selected for intensive and long-term follow-up.

scholarly journals The Vertical and Horizontal Relations of Korean and Korean American Older Adults and Their Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 302-302
Author(s):  
Meeryoung Kim ◽  
Nan Sook Park ◽  
Michin Hong
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Social Involvement ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Korean American Older Adults

Abstract Various relationships are important for the well-being of older adults. This session focuses on the vertical and horizontal relations of Korean and Korean American older adults and their well-being. The purpose of this session is to highlight the importance of intergenerational relations and social involvement of Korean and Korean American older adults. For vertical relations, two studies focus on intergenerational relationships and solidarity. The first study investigated whether intergenerational relationships and social support mediate the distressing consequences of life events, and how this improved the psychological well-being of Korean older adults. The second study developed a standardized measurement tool for intergenerational solidarity because intergenerational conflicts caused by rapid socioeconomic changes have highlighted the importance of strengthening intergenerational solidarity. The third and fourth studies focus on horizontal relations involving social isolation and social involvement. Guided by the double jeopardy hypothesis, the third study examined the health risks posed by the coexistence of social and linguistic isolation in older Korean Americans. As the opposite of social isolation, social involvement was an important factor of social integration of older adults. The fourth study examined volunteering as an example of social involvement by focusing on older adults’ volunteering on the social integration and role identity. Implications of this study suggest not only the importance of social involvement but also the intergenerational relationships on older adults’ well-being.

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