Correlates of Ethnicity‐related Dating Preferences among Asian American Adolescents across the High School Years

Chan, Michele; Kiang, Lisa; Witkow, Melissa R.

doi:10.1111/jora.12551

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“…More specifically, our study suggests that an increased view of fellow Asian Americans as desirable is positively correlated with collective self-esteem and negatively correlated with internalized racist appearance bias, highlighting how positive feelings about one's own racial group and identity are associated with the extent to which one feels attracted to members of one's racial group. These findings are congruent with past research that suggests that increased ethnic identity is associated with Asian Americans' attraction to other Asian Americans (Chan et al, 2020;Nehl et al, 2014). Furthermore, this subscale's negative correlation with psychological distress and positive correlation with positive body image builds upon the past literature by showing how feeling attracted to fellow Asian Americans may be associated with mental health benefits.…”

Section: Pride In Asian American Appearancesupporting

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Body positivity for Asian Americans: Development and evaluation of the pride in Asian American Appearance Scale.

Le¹,

Iwamoto²,

Soulliard³

2022

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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While a growing body of literature has examined factors that contribute to Asian Americans’ negative body image, little research has investigated Asian Americans’ body image from a strengths-based perspective. This study thus presents the Pride in Asian American Appearance Scale (PAAAS), which was designed to measure the extent to which Asian Americans feel positively about their own racialized physical appearances as well as those of fellow Asian Americans. Items were developed through an extensive literature review, cognitive interviews, and expert feedback. Exploratory (N = 398) and confirmatory (N = 398) factor analyses suggested a bifactor model, consisting of 24 items comprising a general factor and four group factors: (a) Pride in Asian Features, (b) Preference for Asian American Appearance, (c) Asian Americans as Desirable, and (d) Action Promoting Asians’ Attractiveness. Internal consistency estimates as well as factor determinacies were high and demonstrated that the specified items adequately represented their intended factors. The PAAAS was significantly correlated in theoretically expected directions with collective self-esteem, internalized racist appearance bias, and psychological distress. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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Section: Pride In Asian American Appearancesupporting

confidence: 90%

Body positivity for Asian Americans: Development and evaluation of the pride in Asian American Appearance Scale.

Le¹,

Iwamoto²,

Soulliard³

2022

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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“…Higher scores indicated more cohesion between the participant and their caregiver. In a 4‐year longitudinal study that started when Asian American students were in 10th grade, internal reliability scores ranged from 0.85 to 0.89 across relationships with mothers and fathers and across time points (Chan et al, 2020).…”

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The relationship between mother and father racial‐ethnic socialization profiles and family cohesion and sociopolitical values among Asian American adolescents

Atkin,

Ahn,

2023

Journal of Adolescence

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IntroductionAlthough research on racial‐ethnic socialization with Asian American families examines academic and psychological outcomes, less is known about whether messages from mothers and fathers are related to their adolescent's Asian American sociopolitical values and family cohesion.MethodsCross‐sectional survey data were collected from 308 Asian American adolescents, ages 14−18, in the United States in 2021 (Mage = 16.83; standard deviation = 1.15).ResultsUsing latent profile analysis, we found that there were three socialization profiles for mothers (integration socialization, moderate separation socialization, and high separation socialization) and two for fathers (integration socialization and high separation socialization). The integration socialization reported more maintenance of heritage culture and becoming American messages, with the lowest reports of awareness of discrimination and avoidance of outgroups. The high separation profile had the highest amount of maintenance of heritage culture messages, awareness of discrimination, and avoidance of outgroups but lowest amount of becoming American messages. Looking at profiles for youths' perceptions of mothers, the moderate separation profile had slightly lower scores on maintenance of heritage culture messages, moderate scores on avoidance of outgroups, and higher reports of becoming American and awareness of discrimination compared to the high separation profile. Adolescents with mothers in the integration profile had the greatest mother‐child cohesion and highest level of sociopolitical values. With fathers, Asian American adolescents reported greater father−child cohesion in the integration profile, but there were no differences between socialization profiles and youth's Asian American sociopolitical values.ConclusionsFindings highlight the importance of parental messages on both identity outcomes (i.e., sociopolitical values) and family processes (i.e., family cohesion).

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“Like Being in Purgatory”: Cultural Identity Mapping Centers Hmong American Experiences of Biculturalism

McKenzie,

Virani,

Thao

et al. 2024

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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This study examines what it means to be bicultural to Hmong American emerging adults living in central California. Twenty-four participants ( Mage = 21.92 years) constructed a cultural identity map that portrayed what it means to them to be “Hmong American,” described both their cultural identity map content and their process of constructing it, and completed the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM). Grounded theory analysis of cultural identity maps and accompanying conversations reveals the pervasiveness of bifurcated biculturalism, or the experience of having split selves. For participants in this study, perceived cultural incompatibility between Hmong and American cultures rendered it necessary to possess two (and sometimes more) distinct cultural identities, and required—for some, almost constant—frame-switching to manage these identities. This article offers an in-depth portrait of three illustrative cases, which represent diversity in terms of gender, social class, and MEIM score. Altogether, findings contribute to scientific understanding of the complex and contradictory nature of biculturalism for Hmong American emerging adults, and speak to the link between ethnic stereotypes and bicultural identity development. Methodologically, this study highlights the utility of identity mapping to examine psychological experiences of biculturalism and other aspects of identity about which people may have hidden, complex, and potentially contradictory stances.

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Correlates of Ethnicity‐related Dating Preferences among Asian American Adolescents across the High School Years

Cited by 4 publications

References 62 publications

Body positivity for Asian Americans: Development and evaluation of the pride in Asian American Appearance Scale.

Body positivity for Asian Americans: Development and evaluation of the pride in Asian American Appearance Scale.

The relationship between mother and father racial‐ethnic socialization profiles and family cohesion and sociopolitical values among Asian American adolescents

“Like Being in Purgatory”: Cultural Identity Mapping Centers Hmong American Experiences of Biculturalism

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