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Lin, Ko-Han Carol.

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The Impact of Acculturation and Generation Status on the Degree of Resilience in Chinese American Adults.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Impact of Acculturation and Generation Status on the Degree of Resilience in Chinese American Adults./
Author:	Lin, Ko-Han Carol.
Description:	67 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-10, Section: B, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-10B.
Subject:	Asian American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3463660
ISBN:	9781124764207

The Impact of Acculturation and Generation Status on the Degree of Resilience in Chinese American Adults.
Lin, Ko-Han Carol.

The Impact of Acculturation and Generation Status on the Degree of Resilience in Chinese American Adults. - 67 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-10, Section: B, page: .

Thesis (Psy.D.)--The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2011.

The present study explored the correlational impact of acculturation and generational status (i.e. first generation, second generation Chinese American) on the degree of resiliency in Chinese American adults currently living in the United States. Acculturation is the general change in one's behavior, attitude, values, and belief as a result of immersion in another culture such as the incorporation and adaptation of new cultural values into one's existing cultural schema. It can impact the development and maintenance of one's level of resilience due to possible breakdown in communication, support, and identification with core systems of support such as family and the Chinese community. It is postulated that the process of acculturation for Chinese Americans towards a more Eurocentric culture can lead to adopting more individualistic, less collectivistic values, which may lower their general resilience to life stressors due to the loss of aforementioned support. In addition, generation status may also play a unique role in the resiliency level of individuals in that second generation or higher Chinese Americans may be less resilient than first generation Chinese Americans. Among immigrants, social networks are generally based around immediate family and culturally congruent communities, which offer a collective support for each others' well-being beyond individual gain. However, among later generation Chinese Americans, social networks extend beyond the primary support system, which can develop weaker broad relationships that provide less substantial support for the individual and weaken one's ability to overcome life stressors in a constructive way. The participants consisted of 70 Chinese American individuals between the ages of 20 and 44 of varying generation statuses recruited through various local Chinese community organizations in a large Midwestern city and through the intemet medium. Participants completed a demographics questionnaire examining their generational status, operationalized through determining the location of their birth (i.e. First generation Chinese Americans are born overseas, second and higher generation Chinese Americans are born in the United States), a resiliency questionnaire (CD-RISC), and a multidimensional acculturation scale (AAMAS). The degree of resilience was measured utilizing the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and the level of acculturation was measured with the Asian American Multidimensional Acculturation Scale (AAMAS). Results were analyzed using multiple regression and MANOVA statistical methods. The study demonstrated that first generation Chinese Americans are more acculturated to their country of origin than second or later generation Chinese Americans. Furthermore, results yielded that acculturation to Asian American cultures foster stronger resiliency among Chinese Americans while acculturation to Chinese American culture did not demonstrate a difference in resiliency among Chinese Americans. Implications and limitations of the study are discussed.

ISBN: 9781124764207Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669629
Asian American Studies.

The Impact of Acculturation and Generation Status on the Degree of Resilience in Chinese American Adults.
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