title: Not your model minority: Own-group activism among Asian Americans.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Research on Asian American activism is neglected in the collective action literature. This study examined a model of Asian American activism that included a context-specific variable, model minority beliefs, and 3 traditional predictors of collective engagement: experiences of discrimination, collective racial identity, and structural awareness.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants completed a survey on their sociopolitical attitudes and behaviors. All participants identified as Asian American (N = 187; Mage = 32.99) and were generally well-educated (76.8% had a college degree or higher), politically liberal (68.5%), and female (74.2%).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Controlling for gender, age, political orientation, and immigrant generation, the results of the serial mediation model revealed that structural awareness, collective racial identity, and model minority beliefs significantly mediated the relationship between discrimination and own-group activism. Results also showed that model minority beliefs negatively predicted own-group activism.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In addition to replicating broad findings from the collective action literature among Asian Americans, this research highlights the importance of contextualized group-based beliefs about inequality (model minority beliefs) for understanding engagement among racial minority groups. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Clark University.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tran
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Clark University.
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Curtin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities