KOREAN-AMERICAN PARENTING AND ADOLESCENT ADAPTATION

本研究旨在探讨100个韩/美韩裔家庭中11-14岁青少年的父母文化适应方式、亲子关系与心理功能之间的关系。年轻的K/KA青少年面临心理功能不佳的风险，因为在这个关键的发展转型时期，他们必须弥合两套根本不同的文化规范。改善青少年的心理功能很重要，因为在美国社会，许多与社会相关的行为都是在较早的年龄就开始的。使用McCubbin等人。少数民族家庭复原力模型作为理论框架，假设父母和青少年在亲子关系中的父母接纳知觉与青少年心理功能存在正相关关系。第二个假设是，父母的文化适应模式将在这种关系中起到调节作用。将从居住在美国中西部地区的K/KA父母和青少年那里获得使用先前测试用于K/KA人群的可靠和有效工具的自我报告数据。数据分析将使用描述性统计、相关分析和等级回归。这些发现可能会增加我们对护士和其他从事K/KA人群工作的卫生专业人员所采用的干预措施的潜在目标的了解。

The purpose of this cross sectional survey design study is to determine the relationship between parental acculturation mode, the parent-child relationship and psychological functioning of young adolescents ages 11-14 in 100 Korean/Korean American (K/KA) families. Young K/KA adolescents are at risk for less than optimal psychological functioning because they must bridge two fundamentally different sets of cultural norms at this time of critical developmental transition. Improving psychological functioning of young adolescents is important because many socially related behaviors are starting at earlier ages in U.S. society. Using McCubbin et al. Resiliency Model for ethnic minority families as the theoretical framework, it is hypothesized that both parents' and adolescents' perceived parental acceptance in the parent-child relationship will be positively related to young adolescents' psychological functioning. A second hypothesis is that parental acculturation mode will act as a moderator in this relationship. Self-report data using reliable and valid instruments previously tested for use in the K/KA population will be obtained from both K/KA parents and young adolescents living in the Midwest area of the U.S. Descriptive statistics, correlational analyses and hierarchical regression will be used for data analysis. Findings may enhance our knowledge of potential targets for interventions to be employed by nurses and other health professionals working with K/KA populations.