Abstract
Due to the lack of current literature on Korean American adolescents' help-seeking, the present study utilized both qualitative and quantitative research methods to describe help-seeking and its relationships to acculturation and acculturative stress. First, focus groups were held with first- and second-generation Korean American high school students. Themes from these groups were then adopted for measurement in the subsequent survey study. In the survey study, an ecologically-based life-domain perspective was employed to assess the degree to which first generation Korean American adolescents' help-seeking is related to their acculturation patterns and acculturative stressors in multiple life domains. The adolescents' overall American acculturation predicted their acculturative stress in the family and the school domains, but not in the peer domains; their overall Korean acculturation predicted their help-seeking intention with the issues in the peer and the school domains, but not in the family domain. These adolescents also maintained their cultural identity as Korean, while their language competence and behaviors followed American norms. Based on what the present study could not accomplish, the directions for future studies are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1229-1229 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue number | 2-B |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2012 |
Keywords
- Acculturation
- Adolescent Attitudes
- Cross Cultural Differences
- Help Seeking Behavior
- Stress
- Ecology
- Korean Cultural Groups