Sorting out the competing effects of acculturation, immigrant stress, and social support on depression: a report on Korean women in California. The Journal of nervous and mental disease [J Nerv Ment Dis] Journal article | | Title | Sorting out the competing effects of acculturation, immigrant stress, and social support on depression: a report on Korean women in California. | | Author(s) | Ayers JW, Hofstetter CR, Usita P, Irvin VL, Kang S, Hovell MF | | Institution | Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. jayers@jhsph.edu | | Source | J Nerv Ment Dis 2009 Oct; 197(10):742-7. | | MeSH | Acculturation
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
California
Depression
Emigrants and Immigrants
Female
Health Status
Humans
Korea
Life Change Events
Middle Aged
Psychometrics
Questionnaires
Risk Factors
Self Concept
Social Support
Socioeconomic Factors
Stress, Psychological
United States
| | Abstract | This research identifies stressors that correlate with depression, focusing on acculturation, among female Korean immigrants in California. Telephone interviews were conducted with female adults of Korean descent (N = 592) from a probability sample from 2006 to 2007. Sixty-five percent of attempted interviews were completed, of which over 90% were conducted in Korean. Analyses include descriptive reports, bivariate correlations, and structural equation modeling. Findings suggest that acculturation did not have a direct impact on depression and was not associated with social support. However, acculturation was associated with reduced immigrant stress which, in turn, was related to decreased levels of depression. Immigrant stress and social support were the principal direct influences on depression, mediating the effect for most other predictors. Stressful experiences associated with immigration may induce depressive feelings. Interventions should facilitate acculturation thereby reducing immigrant stress and expand peer networks to increase social support to assuage depression. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Comparative Study
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
| | PubMed ID | 19829202 |
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