The ethnic church, ethnic identification, and the social adjustment of Vietnamese adolescents
The ethnic church, ethnic identification, and the social adjustment of Vietnamese adolescents
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民族教会、民族认同与越南青少年的社会适应
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1996
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Min Zhou
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C. Bankston;Min Zhou
本文探讨了越南青少年参加民族宗教机构对美国社会的民族认同和社会适应的影响。它考虑了种族认同和社会适应在多大程度上可能是参加教会和教会资助的正规教育计划的产物。我们的研究结果表明，参加教堂活动对种族认同有着持续的显着影响，而教会资助的正规教育项目有助于增强种族认同（主要是通过增加越南语的使用）和更好的调整（通过积极影响学业成绩）。然而，参加教会活动与种族认同之间的关系不仅仅取决于教会主办的正规教育项目。相反，我们建议少数民族教会作为少数民族社区的网络焦点，参与少数民族教会可以使青年与少数民族网络更加紧密地联系在一起。与族裔社区的密切联系反过来又促进了移民青少年积极适应美国社会，增加了他们在学校取得好成绩的可能性，着眼于未来的教育，并避免了当代年轻人面临的一些危险。我们的结论是，移民教会应该被视为促进美国社会的调整，因为它鼓励培养少数族裔成员资格。
This article examines the effect of participation in an ethnic religious institution on ethnic identification and social adjustment to American society by Vietnamese adolescents. It considers to what extent ethnic identification and social adjustment may be the product of church attendance and church-sponsored formal educational programs. Our results show that church attendance has a consistently significant influence on ethnic identification and that church-sponsored formal educational programs contribute to stronger ethnic identification (chiefly by increasing use of the Vietnamese language) and to better adjustment (by positively influencing scholastic performance). However, the relationship between church attendance and ethnic identification is not merely determined by the formal educational programs sponsored by the church. We suggest rather that the ethnic church serves as a network focus for the ethnic community and that participation in the ethnic church binds youth more closely to the ethnic network. The close association with the ethnic community, in turn, facilitates positive adjustment of immigrant adolescents to American society by increasing the probability that they will do well in school, set their sights on future education, and avoid some of the dangers that confront contemporary young people. We conclude that the immigrant congregation should be viewed as promoting adjustment to American society because it encourages the cultivation of ethnic group membership.