Acculturation and Self-Rated Mental Health Among Latino and Asian Immigrants in the United States: A Latent Class Analysis
Acculturation and Self-Rated Mental Health Among Latino and Asian Immigrants in the United States: A Latent Class Analysis
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DOI：
10.1007/s10903-015-0258-1
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
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1.9
通讯作者：
Gayman, Matthew D.
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作者：
Bulut, Elif;Gayman, Matthew D.
这项研究通过确定不同的文化适应类别来评估文化适应经历的差异，并调查这些文化适应类别对在美国的拉美裔和亚裔移民自我评估心理健康的作用。利用2002-2003年全国拉美裔和亚裔美国人研究，潜在类别分析被用来捕捉移民类别(新来的、分离的、双文化的和被同化的)的变化，并使用OLS回归来评估文化适应类别和自我评估的心理健康之间的联系。对于拉丁裔和亚裔来说，双文化移民的心理健康状况最好，而分居移民和新移民的心理健康状况最差。研究结果还揭示了文化适应阶层的群体差异，即与亚洲移民相比，拉美裔移民更有可能属于分离阶层和新来的阶层。虽然在两个变量的自我评估心理健康水平上没有显著的群体差异，但对文化适应课程的控制表明，拉美裔人的自我评估心理健康状况好于亚洲人。因此，如果拉美裔移民不是更有可能被代表在文化程度较低的阶层(分离的阶层和新来的人)和/或像他们的亚洲同行一样处于双文化阶层，他们实际上会比他们的亚洲同行有更好的自我评估的心理健康状况。总之，这些研究结果强调了文化适应过程的微妙和复杂性质，强调了种族差异在这一过程中的重要性，并展示了针对移民群体差异的文化适应课程在自我评估心理健康方面的作用。
This study assesses variations in acculturation experiences by identifying distinct acculturation classes, and investigates the role of these acculturation classes for self-rated mental health among Latino and Asian immigrants in the United States. Using 2002-2003 the National Latino and Asian American Study, Latent Class Analysis is used to capture variations in immigrant classes (recent arrivals, separated, bicultural and assimilated), and OLS regressions are used to assess the link between acculturation classes and self-rated mental health. For both Latinos and Asians, bicultural immigrants reported the best mental health, and separated immigrants and recent arrivals reported the worst mental health. The findings also reveal group differences in acculturation classes, whereby Latino immigrants were more likely to be in the separated class and recent arrivals class relative to Asian immigrants. While there was not a significant group difference in self-rated mental health at the bivariate level, controlling for acculturation classes revealed that Latinos report better self-rated mental health than Asians. Thus, Latino immigrants would actually have better self-rated mental health than their Asian counterparts if they were not more likely to be represented in less acculturated classes (separated class and recent arrivals) and/or as likely to be in the bicultural class as their Asian counterparts. Together the findings underscore the nuanced and complex nature of the acculturation process, highlighting the importance of race differences in this process, and demonstrate the role of acculturation classes for immigrant group differences in self-rated mental health.