Korean American adolescent depression and parenting.
OBJECTIVE
Korean American adolescents tend to experience more mental health problems than adolescents in other ethnic groups.


METHODS
The goal of this study was to examine the association between Korean American parent-adolescent relationships and adolescents' depressive symptoms in 56 families.


RESULTS
Thirty-nine percent of adolescents reported elevated depressive symptoms. Adolescents' perceived low maternal warmth and higher intergenerational acculturation conflicts with fathers were significant predictors for adolescent depressive symptoms.


CONCLUSIONS
The findings can be used to develop a family intervention program, the aim of which would be to decrease adolescent depressive symptoms by promoting parental warmth and decreasing parent-adolescent acculturation conflicts.
Kim
Eunjung
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Department of Family and Child Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Kevin C
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D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007723:Korea / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015205:Northwestern United States; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D016487:Parenting / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012307:Risk Factors