Factors associated with emotional distress and suicide ideation among international college students

Taliaferro, Lindsay A.; Muehlenkamp, Jennifer J.; Jeevanba, Sathya B.

doi:10.1080/07448481.2019.1583655

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“…Our findings also support the idea that acculturative stress is associated with depression symptoms in international students, consistent with previous studies (e.g., Lee et al, 2004;Wei et al, 2007;Rice et al, 2012;Jackson et al, 2013;Hamamura and Laird, 2014;Huang and Mussap, 2018). In addition, previous studies have found that higher levels of acculturative stress are also associated with higher suicidal ideation (Taliaferro et al, 2019). Future studies should examine the relation between acculturative stress, depression and suicidal ideation in this population.…”

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Mind the Gap: The Relation Between Identity Gaps and Depression Symptoms in Cultural Adaptation

2020

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Personal-enacted identity gaps, defined as the difference between an individual's selfview and the self that one expresses in communication, affect depression levels of international students living in the United States. Thus, identity gaps are an important construct for understanding the relation between identity and health outcomes. The present research examined the relation between personal-enacted identity gaps formed through communication with Americans and depression, extending previous work by considering the roles of acculturative stress and self-construal and providing one of the first tests of the relation between identity gaps and acculturative stress. A sample of 171 undergraduate and graduate international students studying in the United States was recruited to participate in an online study consisting of self-report questionnaires. Results indicated that as hypothesized, higher levels of personal-enacted identity gaps were associated with depression symptoms and that acculturative stress mediates this relation. However, independent self-construal did not moderate the relation between these variables. Testing additional models revealed multiple ways in which these factors could affect each other. Overall, results suggest that personal-enacted identity gaps, acculturative stress, and depression symptoms are important to consider in tandem in order to understand the emotional experiences of the international students and identify who is at risk for poor mental health. Future longitudinal research is needed to further understand the relations amongst these factors.

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Mind the Gap: The Relation Between Identity Gaps and Depression Symptoms in Cultural Adaptation

2020

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“…We connected these proliferated and nonbrute data to extant concepts to illustrate how pandemic conditions and digitized contexts exacerbated ongoing concerns for international students such as: microaggressions, language barriers, and social isolation (Bittencourt et al, 2021;Heng, 2018;Kim, 2020;Lee, 2021;Nadal et al, 2014;Sue, Capodilupo et al, 2007;Taliaferro et al, 2020).…”

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“We Have to Survive, First”: Speculative Ethnographies of Chinese Student Experience During COVID-19

Dai

2021

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Our speculative ethnography of Chinese student experience in the United States during COVID-19 weds the tradition of speculative fiction (exemplified by the likes of Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler) and digital autoethnography. The study is two-pronged: First, we articulate/map the methodological merits of speculative and digital autoethnography as particularly conducive to the crisis context of COVID-19 and its accompanying social isolation; second, we deploy said methodology within a population of nine Chinese students “trapped” in the United States during the COVID-19 period.

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“…But, in our study, the problem is about Gaussian graphical model, so we use the method proposed by [41] to solve it. We first transform the problem described by equation (8) to equation (9). en, we use the convex optimization module, CVXPY, to obtain the results e computing process can be seen in Algorithm 1.…”

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“…For example, Masuda et al [8] used logistic regression to study the effects of social isolation on suicidal behavior in the context of fixed social networks. Taliaferro et al [9] used linear regression and multiple regression to study the factors affecting mood and suicidal behavior in international college students. In recent years, complex networks have received considerable attention in psychological research [10].…”

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College Students’ Psychological Health Analysis Based on Multitask Gaussian Graphical Models

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Wang

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Understanding and solving the psychological health problems of college students have become a focus of social attention. Complex networks have become important tools to study the factors affecting psychological health, and the Gaussian graphical model is often used to estimate psychological networks. However, previous studies leave some gaps to overcome, including the following aspects. (1) When studying networks of subpopulations, the estimation neglects the intrinsic relationships among subpopulations, leading to a large difference between the estimated network and the real network. (2) Because of the high cost, previous psychological surveys often have a small sample size, and the psychological description is insufficient. Here, the intrinsic connections among multiple tasks are used, and multitask machine learning is applied to develop a multitask Gaussian graphical model. The psychological networks of the population and subpopulations are estimated based on psychological questionnaire data. This study is the first to apply a psychological network to such a large-scale college student psychological analysis, and we obtain some interesting results. The model presented here is a dynamic model based on complex networks which predicts individual behavior and provides insight into the intrinsic links among various symptoms.

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Factors associated with emotional distress and suicide ideation among international college students

Cited by 34 publications

References 27 publications

Mind the Gap: The Relation Between Identity Gaps and Depression Symptoms in Cultural Adaptation

Mind the Gap: The Relation Between Identity Gaps and Depression Symptoms in Cultural Adaptation

“We Have to Survive, First”: Speculative Ethnographies of Chinese Student Experience During COVID-19

College Students’ Psychological Health Analysis Based on Multitask Gaussian Graphical Models

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