Developmental and contextual correlates of mental health and help-seeking among Asian American college students.

2018 ◽  
Vol 88 (6) ◽  
pp. 636-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratyusha Tummala-Narra ◽  
Zhushan Li ◽  
Janet Chang ◽  
Eun Jeong Yang ◽  
Jing Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Asian American College Students

scholarly journals Exploring Family Multi-type Maltreatment, Social Support, and Externalizing and Internalizing Problems Among Asian and Asian American College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yoko Baba ◽  
James D. Lee ◽  
Michael E. Vallerga
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Support ◽  
College Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Externalizing And Internalizing Problems ◽  
Asian American College Students

Exposure to family violence as a child has a detrimental long-term impact on one’s life. This relationship is under-researched in Asian populations in the United States or in Asian countries. This study examined long-term effects of maltreatment, including interparental violence and child maltreatment on externalizing and internalizing problems experienced by Asian and Asian American college students. We also explored protective effects of social support against the negative consequences of family maltreatment. Surveying 542 college students in Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and the United States, we measured effects of family maltreatment on problem outcomes and examined the role of social support. Exposure to dual harm of family maltreatment (i.e., intraparental violence and child maltreatment) increased students’ externalizing problems compared to exposure to one type of family maltreatment, but no differences in internalizing behaviors were found. Effects of social support from parents and peers on externalizing and internalizing problems were neither moderating nor mediating, but direct. Those who received parental support had fewer externalizing behaviors, but effects of peer support were not significant. In contrast, those who obtained parental and peer support showed lower levels of internalizing mental health concerns. Surprisingly, men exhibited more mental health issues than women. Exposure to dual harm increases behavioral problems, but family support can help repair damage among Asian and Asian American college students. The relationship between abuse and problem outcomes was similar across countries, indicating common psychological processes.

Revisiting and Extending the Role of Religious Coping in the Racism-Mental Health Relation among Christian, Asian American Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 166-181
Author(s):  
Paul Youngbin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Asian American Students ◽  
Facilitative Role ◽  
Asian American College Students

Despite the prevalent belief to the contrary, Asian Americans are susceptible to experiencing contemporary forms of racism and their deleterious influence on mental health. The present study is an empirical investigation of Asian Americans' experience of racism, its association with mental health, the different religious coping strategies that might be utilized, and the mediating roles of religious coping in a sample of Christian Asian American college students. The current study revisits and extends a prior study (P. Y. Kim, Kendall, & Webb, 2015) by using a more nuanced conceptualization and assessment of religious coping, examining religious coping as a mediator instead of a moderator, and examining mental health outcomes multidimensionally (anxiety, depression, and well-being). Results indicated that Asian American participants tended to rely on certain types of religious coping over others, and that some highly endorsed religious coping strategies had a deleterious effect on mental health (e.g., positively associated with racism and distress symptoms), whereas other endorsed strategies had a facilitative role on mental health (e.g., positively associated with racism, but inversely associated with psychological distress). The findings point to the complex roles religious coping might play in the association between racism and the mental health of Asian American college students.

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