PROBLEM-Korean American adolescents tend to experience more mental health problems than adolescents in other ethnic groups.METHODS-The goal of this study was to examine the association between Korean American parent-adolescent relationships and adolescents' depressive symptoms in 56 families.FINDINGS-Thirty-nine percent of adolescents reported elevated depressive symptoms. Adolescents' perceived low maternal warmth and higher intergenerational acculturation conflicts with fathers were significant predictors for adolescent depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS-The findings can be used to develop a family intervention program, the aim of which would be to decrease adolescent depressive symptoms by promoting parental warmth and decreasing parent-adolescent acculturation conflicts. Search TermsKorean American; depression; parental warmth; parental control; parent-adolescent conflict Elevated depressive symptoms are one of the most prevalent mental health problems among adolescents; they are increasing, recurring, and associated with poor school performance, delinquency, running away, substance abuse, and suicide (Hale, Van Der Valk, Engels, & Meeus, 2005;Saluja et al., 2004). Increasing evidence shows that adolescent depressive symptoms are related to the quality of relationships between adolescents and their parents. Adolescents tend to experience elevated levels of depressive symptoms when they perceive their parents to be low in warmth but high in control (Hale et al., 2005;Rapee, 1997), and when they experience more frequent conflicts with their parents (Sheeber, Hops, Alpert, Davis, & Andrews, 1997). These findings are true for both European American and Asian American adolescents (Greenberger & Chen, 1996).Although Greenberger and Chen's (1996) sample included both Chinese and Korean American adolescents, data from the two ethnic groups were combined for analysis. Therefore, this association is not known specifically for Korean American adolescents, who tend to experience more mental health problems than European American adolescents (Choi, Stafford, Meininger, Roberts, & Smith, 2002) or Chinese and Japanese American adolescents (Yeh, 2003). The goal of this study was to examine the associations between perceived parent-adolescent relationships and depressive symptoms in Korean American adolescents. The research questions were: (1) how are parent-adolescent relationships (i.e.,Corresponding author: Eunjung Kim, PhD, ARNP, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Child Nursing, University of Washington, Box 357262 Seattle WA 98195, Phone: (206) FAX: (206) THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKParental warmth and control are considered to be important dimensions of parenting (Maccoby & Martin, 1983). According to the parental acceptance-rejection theory (Rohner, 2007;Rohner, Khaleque, & Cournoyer, 2007), parents can be placed on a continuum between acceptance and rejection based on how warm they are toward their adolescents. Warm parents are accepting and affectionate. When parents are low in warmth, they tend to b...

Parental acceptance-rejection is related to young adolescents' psychological adjustment when adolescents perceive themselves as accepted or rejected by parents. The relation between mothers' report of maternal acceptance-rejection and behavioral control and adolescents' psychological adjustment needs to be considered within the context of maternal acculturation.

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