TY - JOUR
T1 - Race-Ethnicity and Culture in the Family and Youth Outcomes
T2 - Test of a Path Model with Korean American Youth and Parents
AU - Choi, Yoonsun
AU - Tan, Kevin Poh Hiong
AU - Yasui, Miwa
AU - Pekelnicky, Dina Drankus
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This study was supported by a Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (Grant No. K01 MH069910), Seed Grants from the Center for Health Administration Studies, and a Junior Faculty Research Fund from the School of Social Service Administration and the Office of Vice President of Research and Argonne Laboratory at the University of Chicago to the first author.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - This study examined the interplay of parental racial-ethnic socialization and youth multidimensional cultural orientations to investigate how they indirectly and directly influence youth depressive symptoms and antisocial behaviors. Using data from the Korean American Families Project (220 youths, 272 mothers, and 164 fathers, N = 656), this study tested the relationships concurrently, longitudinally, and accounting for earlier youth outcomes. The main findings include that racial-ethnic socialization is significantly associated with mainstream and ethnic cultural orientation among youth, which in turn influences depressive symptoms (but not antisocial behaviors). More specifically, parental racial-ethnic identity and pride discourage youth mainstream orientation, whereas cultural socialization in the family, as perceived by youth, increases ethnic orientation. These findings suggest a varying impact of racial-ethnic socialization on the multidimensional cultural orientations of youth. Korean language proficiency of youth was most notably predictive of a decrease in the number of depressive symptoms concurrently, longitudinally, and after controlling for previous levels of depressive symptoms. English language proficiency was also associated with a decrease in depressive symptoms, implying a benefit of bilingualism.
AB - This study examined the interplay of parental racial-ethnic socialization and youth multidimensional cultural orientations to investigate how they indirectly and directly influence youth depressive symptoms and antisocial behaviors. Using data from the Korean American Families Project (220 youths, 272 mothers, and 164 fathers, N = 656), this study tested the relationships concurrently, longitudinally, and accounting for earlier youth outcomes. The main findings include that racial-ethnic socialization is significantly associated with mainstream and ethnic cultural orientation among youth, which in turn influences depressive symptoms (but not antisocial behaviors). More specifically, parental racial-ethnic identity and pride discourage youth mainstream orientation, whereas cultural socialization in the family, as perceived by youth, increases ethnic orientation. These findings suggest a varying impact of racial-ethnic socialization on the multidimensional cultural orientations of youth. Korean language proficiency of youth was most notably predictive of a decrease in the number of depressive symptoms concurrently, longitudinally, and after controlling for previous levels of depressive symptoms. English language proficiency was also associated with a decrease in depressive symptoms, implying a benefit of bilingualism.
KW - Cultural orientation
KW - Culture
KW - Family socialization
KW - Race-ethnicity
KW - Youth outcomes
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U2 - 10.1007/s12552-014-9111-8
DO - 10.1007/s12552-014-9111-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 24611081
AN - SCOPUS:84893975620
SN - 1867-1748
VL - 6
SP - 69
EP - 84
JO - Race and Social Problems
JF - Race and Social Problems
IS - 1
ER -