Acculturative Stress and Coping
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This study examined acculturative stress and coping among 86 university students of Korean heritage. Participants indicated their stress levels on 3 scales of cultural adaptation: discrimination, language and cultural ties, and social distance. Findings showed that Korean self-identified students displayed higher levels of acculturative stress than Korean Americans on most measures. In particular, Korean identified males experience the greatest amount of general acculturative stress overall, especially with regard to language and cultural ties and to discrimination. Gender differences showed that women used collectivistic responses in coping with acculturative stress. Case studies were also conducted with 5 participants to enrich the quantitative findings. Using quantitative and qualitative data from the case studies, we use cultural explanations of traditional gender roles to understand our findings. Implications for university counselors who work with international students from South Korea are addressed.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | April 2013 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lee, Diane Sookyoung | |
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| Author | Padilla, Amado M. | |
| Publisher | American College Personnel Association |
Subjects
| Subject | acculturative stress |
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| Subject | Korean heritage students |
| Subject | discrimination |
| Subject | international students |
| Subject | gender differences |
| Genre | Article |
Bibliographic information
| Related Publication | Lee, D. S. & Padilla, A. M. (in press). Acculturative Stress and Coping: Gender Differences among Korean and Korean American University Students. Journal of College Student Development. |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yg867nn1610 |
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