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Chen, Chia-Feng.

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Life stress and psychological adjustment among American, Asian-American, and Asian foreign graduate students: The mediating roles of objective social networks and perceived social support.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Life stress and psychological adjustment among American, Asian-American, and Asian foreign graduate students: The mediating roles of objective social networks and perceived social support./
Author:	Chen, Chia-Feng.
Description:	303 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A, page: 0755.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-03A.
Subject:	Education, Educational Psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9212501

Life stress and psychological adjustment among American, Asian-American, and Asian foreign graduate students: The mediating roles of objective social networks and perceived social support.
Chen, Chia-Feng.

Life stress and psychological adjustment among American, Asian-American, and Asian foreign graduate students: The mediating roles of objective social networks and perceived social support. - 303 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A, page: 0755.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 1991.

This study attempted to assess the impact of both objective social networks and subjectively perceived social support on the relationship between life stress and psychological adjustment in a special population--graduate students. The impact of positive events on psychological adjustment was also examined.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Education, Educational Psychology.

Life stress and psychological adjustment among American, Asian-American, and Asian foreign graduate students: The mediating roles of objective social networks and perceived social support.
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520 $a This study attempted to assess the impact of both objective social networks and subjectively perceived social support on the relationship between life stress and psychological adjustment in a special population--graduate students. The impact of positive events on psychological adjustment was also examined.
520 $a The final study sample was composed of 135 Anglo-Americans, 84 Asian-Americans, and 123 Foreign students, who were enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin in fall, 1990, and returned a questionnaire that was mailed to them (the response rate was over 60 percent). No significant differences between respondents and nonrespondents in demographic characteristics were found for the three study groups, except for years at The University of Texas at Austin in the Foreign student group. Nevertheless, because demographic variables were significantly associated with ethnic/cultural background, demographic characteristics were held constant in hypothesis-testing.
520 $a The well-documented relationship between negative life stress and psychological maladjustment was demonstrated in the three groups. Network-related variables did not show significant direct or buffering effects on psychological adjustment. In contrast, perceived social support showed a boosting effect on self-confidence in the three groups, and an alleviating effect on depression moods in Anglo- and Asian-American students. However, the expected buffering effects of perceived social support were not found. In addition, positive events were found to bolster self-confidence among Foreign students, and to counterbalance the deleterious effects of negative life stress on depression among Anglo-American students.
520 $a Finally, path models integrating all study variables together were examined to predict psychological adjustment across the three study groups. Overall chi-square tests indicated that group-specific path models fit the observed data better than path models that were invariant over the groups. Further examination indicated that the effects of perceived social support on self-confidence and depression differed across the three groups.
520 $a This study demonstrated not only the main effects of perceived social support on depression frequently cited in the stress literature, but also the main effects of perceived social support on self-confidence, which were seldom reported in earlier literature. Network-related variables were unimportant in predicting psychological adjustment, compared with perceived social support. Research on factors that determine the perception of support should be encouraged in the future in order to increase the potential benefits of social support in intervention programs. This study also suggested that caution should be used in generalizing intervention programs among different populations. Finally, practical implications of this study for graduate education are addressed.
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