Cultural orientation and psychological well-being in Chinese Americans |
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Authors: | Yu-Wen Ying |
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Institution: | (1) School of Social Welfare, University of California, 120 Haviland Hall, 94720-7400 Berkeley, California |
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Abstract: | 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.
The data reported here were collected as part of the author's doctoral dissertation. Ricardo F. Munoz and Guillermo Bernal
guided and supported the implementation of this study; Sunwoo Lee assisted with the data analysis; and Edison J. Trickett
and the anonymous reviewers offered helpful suggestions. |
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Keywords: | Chinese American cultural orientation Chinese American psychological well-being |
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