Self‐Concept, Alienation, and Perceived Prejudice: Implications for Counseling Asian Americans

Asamen, Joy; Berry, Gordon L.

doi:10.1002/j.2161-1912.1987.tb00390.x

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“…Crocker and Quinn (1998) found discrimination and self-esteem were not correlated in Asian Americans. However, Asamen and Berry's (1987) found perceived prejudice was negatively correlated with a positive physical self-perception in Japanese Americans but not Chinese Americans.…”

Section: Racial Discrimination and Sense Of Coherencementioning

confidence: 95%

Cultural orientation and racial discrimination: Predictors of coherence in Chinese American young adults

Ying

Lee

Tsai

2000

J. Community Psychol.

121

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Section: Racial Discrimination and Sense Of Coherencementioning

confidence: 95%

Cultural orientation and racial discrimination: Predictors of coherence in Chinese American young adults

Ying

Lee

Tsai

2000

J. Community Psychol.

121

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“…In Barlow et al’s (2000) study with African American women, feelings of exclusion from the national identity by European Americans were related to how African American women perceive their own group, such that those who felt more excluded held more pessimistic views of the economic and social position of African Americans, regardless of their actual socioeconomic status. Researchers have also identified a significant and negative correlation between perceived prejudice and negative self-concept among Japanese Americans, suggesting that the more this minority group was aware of negative prejudice against them, the more negatively they viewed themselves (Asamen & Berry, 1987). These findings all indicate a potential link between how an individual believes he/she is perceived by others and his/her own perception of the self.…”

Section: The Perpetual Foreigner Stereotypementioning

confidence: 99%

Perpetual Foreigner in One's Own Land: Potential Implications for Identity and Psychological Adjustment

Huynh¹,

Devos²,

Smalarz³

2011

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

257

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The perpetual foreigner stereotype posits that members of ethnic minorities will always be seen as the “other” in the White Anglo-Saxon dominant society of the United States (Devos & Banaji, 2005), which may have negative implications for them. The goal of the present research was to determine whether awareness of this perpetual foreigner stereotype predicts identity and psychological adjustment. We conducted a series of studies with 231 Asian Americans and 211 Latino/as (Study 1), 89 African Americans (Study 2), and 56 Asian Americans and 165 Latino/as (Study 3). All participants completed measures of perceived discrimination, awareness of the perpetual foreigner stereotype, conflict between ethnic and national identities, sense of belonging to American culture, and demographics. In Study 3, participants also completed measures of psychological adjustment: depression, hope, and life satisfaction. All participants were students at a large, public university on the West Coast of the United States. Across studies, we found that even after controlling for perceived discrimination, awareness of the perpetual foreigner stereotype was a significant predictor of identity conflict and lower sense of belonging to American culture. From Study 3, we also found that, above and beyond perceived discrimination, awareness of the perpetual foreigner stereotype significantly predicted lower hope and life satisfaction for Asian Americans, and that it was a marginal predictor of greater depression for Latino/as. These results suggest that the perpetual foreigner stereotype may play a role in ethnic minority identity and adjustment.

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“…Research findings in the past have underscored a direct relationship between discrimination and self-esteem (Asamen & Berry, 1987;Declan & Brilo, 2003;Greene, Way, & Pahl, 2006;Lee, 2003;Romero & Roberts, 2003;Schmitt & Branscombe, 2002;Szalacha et al, 2003). In fact, several studies posit that experiencing discrimination negatively affects self-esteem among Chinese American adolescents (Diaz, Ayala, Bein, Henne, & Marin, 2001;Greene et al, 2006;Rivas-Drake, Hughes, & Way, 2008;Swim, Hyers, Cohen, & Ferguson, 2001), Moroccan and Turkish adolescents in the Netherlands (Verkuyten, 1998), as well as Latino/a adolescents, including Dominican youth (Greene et al, 2006;Portes & Zady, 2002;Shorey, Cowan, & Sullivan, 2002).…”

Section: Discrimination Stress and Self-esteemmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Discrimination and Stress Affects Self-Esteem Among Dominican Immigrant Women: An Exploratory Study

Panchanadeswaran

Dawson

2011

Social Work in Public Health

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Understanding the factors that contribute to the health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States is very important given the growing Latina population. Although researchers have investigated the health and mental health status among Latinas, the relationship between mental health and self-esteem has not been given a lot of attention. Given that self-esteem is a proxy for mental health status, investigations exploring the factors that can negatively affect self-esteem are needed. Therefore, the current study examined the influence of discrimination and stress on selfesteem among Dominican immigrant women. A cross-sectional study was undertaken among 235 immigrant Dominican women in New York City. Women (age 18-49 years) and in the United States for fewer than 20 years were more likely to report experiencing discrimination compared to women older than age 50 years and in the United States for more than 20 years. After controlling for age, time in the United States, educational level, and income, high levels of discrimination ( 0.09, p < 0.01) and stress ( 0.69, p < 0.001) were significantly associated with reduced self-esteem. Interventions with Latino/a populations, especially women, need to acknowledge their individual evaluations of the discriminatory and stressful experiences that negatively influence their self-esteem and subsequently their mental health status.

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Self‐Concept, Alienation, and Perceived Prejudice: Implications for Counseling Asian Americans

Cited by 41 publications

References 33 publications

Cultural orientation and racial discrimination: Predictors of coherence in Chinese American young adults

Cultural orientation and racial discrimination: Predictors of coherence in Chinese American young adults

Perpetual Foreigner in One's Own Land: Potential Implications for Identity and Psychological Adjustment

How Discrimination and Stress Affects Self-Esteem Among Dominican Immigrant Women: An Exploratory Study

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