title: Acculturation, enculturation, and Asian American college students' mental health and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help.
abstract: In the present study, we tested a theoretically and empirically derived partially indirect effects acculturation and enculturation model of Asian American college students' mental health and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. Latent variable path analysis with 296 self-identified Asian American college students supported the partially indirect effects model and demonstrated the ways in which behavioral acculturation, behavioral enculturation, values acculturation, values enculturation, and acculturation gap family conflict related to mental health and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help directly and indirectly through acculturative stress. We also tested a generational status moderator hypothesis to determine whether differences in model-implied relationships emerged across U.S.- (n = 185) and foreign-born (n = 107) participants. Consistent with this hypothesis, statistically significant differences in structural coefficients emerged across generational status. Limitations, future directions for research, and counseling implications are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Counseling and Personnel Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. mmille27@umd.edu
authors.forename: Matthew J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Minji
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Kayi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hui
authors.forename: Na-Yeun
authors.initials: NY
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Lim
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001290:Attitude; D003376:Counseling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D008603:Mental Health; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012945:Social Values; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult