The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes as well as other forms of discrimination. As a result, Asian Americans have had to contend with not just the isolation, illness, and economic difficulties of the pandemic but also the rise in anti-Asian sentiment. In order to spotlight the ways in which Asian Americans have coped, the Asian American Journal of Psychology provides a two-part special issue on Asian Americans and the COVID-19 pandemic. This article serves to introduce Part 1. The articles in this collection not only provide a close look at the experiences of Asian Americans but also examine the protective variables that moderate and/or mediate the link between the experiences of discrimination and well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement What is the public significance of this article?-This article provides an overview of the special issue on Asian Americans and the COVID-19 pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
新冠肺炎大流行伴随着反亚洲仇恨犯罪和其他形式歧视的上升。因此,亚裔美国人不仅要应对疫情带来的隔离、疾病和经济困难,还要应对反亚洲情绪的上升。为了聚焦亚裔美国人的应对方式,《亚裔美国人心理学杂志》提供了一个由两部分组成的关于亚裔美国人与COVID-19大流行的特刊。本文将介绍第1部分。本作品集中的文章不仅提供了对亚裔美国人经历的近距离观察,而且还研究了缓和和/或调解歧视经历与福祉之间联系的保护性变量。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA,版权所有)影响声明本文的公共意义是什么?-这篇文章概述了《亚裔美国人与新冠肺炎大流行》特刊。(PsycInfo数据库记录(c) 2022 APA,版权所有)
{"title":"Rise of anti-Asian violence and the COVID-19 pandemic for Asian Americans.","authors":"J. Kim, Pratyusha Tummala-Narra","doi":"10.1037/aap0000301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000301","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes as well as other forms of discrimination. As a result, Asian Americans have had to contend with not just the isolation, illness, and economic difficulties of the pandemic but also the rise in anti-Asian sentiment. In order to spotlight the ways in which Asian Americans have coped, the Asian American Journal of Psychology provides a two-part special issue on Asian Americans and the COVID-19 pandemic. This article serves to introduce Part 1. The articles in this collection not only provide a close look at the experiences of Asian Americans but also examine the protective variables that moderate and/or mediate the link between the experiences of discrimination and well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement What is the public significance of this article?-This article provides an overview of the special issue on Asian Americans and the COVID-19 pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)","PeriodicalId":46922,"journal":{"name":"Asian American Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88294000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huiguang Ren, Charissa S. L. Cheah, X. Zong, Suqing Wang, Hyun Su Cho, Cixin Wang, Xiaofang Xue
Parental racial-ethnic socialization (RES) can be an important resource for Chinese American youth as they navigate the highly racialized and Sinophobic context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. We used time-varying association models to examine Chinese American parents' engagement in six types of racial-ethnic socialization (RES) practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and their associations with child difficulties across child ages 4-18 years and child gender. Five hundred Chinese American parents (Mage = 43.5 years, SD = 6.5;79% mothers) with 4-18-year-old children (Mage = 11.7 years, SD = 3.9;48% girls) reported on their RES practices and children's adjustment difficulties. Parents' use of maintenance of heritage culture and cultural pluralism RES did not vary for children at different ages, whereas they used more awareness of discrimination RES for older children than younger children. Parents engaged in more maintenance of heritage culture RES during early adolescence and more concealing Chinese connection RES during middle adolescence with their daughters than sons. Maintenance of heritage culture and cultural pluralism RES contributed to fewer child difficulties during early to middle adolescence, respectively. However, avoidance of outgroups and concealing Chinese connection RES strategies contributed to more child difficulties across most child ages. Awareness of discrimination and awareness of COVID-19 discrimination RES were associated with more child difficulties during early to middle adolescence during the pandemic, with the association peaking at around child age 14. Findings highlight the role of child age and gender in parents' RES and implications for their adjustment during COVID-19, and inform culturally and developmentally tailored interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement This study suggests that Chinese American parents emphasize different racial-ethnic socialization practices with their children of different ages and gender during the racialized coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Early to middle adolescence appears to be a key developmental period during which certain parent racial-ethnic socialization practices are more strongly associated with child adjustment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
{"title":"Age-varying associations between Chinese American parents’ racial–ethnic socialization and children’s difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Huiguang Ren, Charissa S. L. Cheah, X. Zong, Suqing Wang, Hyun Su Cho, Cixin Wang, Xiaofang Xue","doi":"10.1037/aap0000278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000278","url":null,"abstract":"Parental racial-ethnic socialization (RES) can be an important resource for Chinese American youth as they navigate the highly racialized and Sinophobic context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. We used time-varying association models to examine Chinese American parents' engagement in six types of racial-ethnic socialization (RES) practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and their associations with child difficulties across child ages 4-18 years and child gender. Five hundred Chinese American parents (Mage = 43.5 years, SD = 6.5;79% mothers) with 4-18-year-old children (Mage = 11.7 years, SD = 3.9;48% girls) reported on their RES practices and children's adjustment difficulties. Parents' use of maintenance of heritage culture and cultural pluralism RES did not vary for children at different ages, whereas they used more awareness of discrimination RES for older children than younger children. Parents engaged in more maintenance of heritage culture RES during early adolescence and more concealing Chinese connection RES during middle adolescence with their daughters than sons. Maintenance of heritage culture and cultural pluralism RES contributed to fewer child difficulties during early to middle adolescence, respectively. However, avoidance of outgroups and concealing Chinese connection RES strategies contributed to more child difficulties across most child ages. Awareness of discrimination and awareness of COVID-19 discrimination RES were associated with more child difficulties during early to middle adolescence during the pandemic, with the association peaking at around child age 14. Findings highlight the role of child age and gender in parents' RES and implications for their adjustment during COVID-19, and inform culturally and developmentally tailored interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement This study suggests that Chinese American parents emphasize different racial-ethnic socialization practices with their children of different ages and gender during the racialized coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Early to middle adolescence appears to be a key developmental period during which certain parent racial-ethnic socialization practices are more strongly associated with child adjustment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)","PeriodicalId":46922,"journal":{"name":"Asian American Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90953422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kalpana K. Balaraman, S. Dan, Nicholas Ortega, M. Srinivasan, L. Palaniappan, Jaiveer Singh, Sukyung Chung, Shashank V. Joshi
{"title":"Psychological distress and mental health service utilization disparities in disaggregated Asian American populations, 2006–2018.","authors":"Kalpana K. Balaraman, S. Dan, Nicholas Ortega, M. Srinivasan, L. Palaniappan, Jaiveer Singh, Sukyung Chung, Shashank V. Joshi","doi":"10.1037/aap0000294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46922,"journal":{"name":"Asian American Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85310440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A phenomenological inquiry into support-seeking experiences for women survivors of sexual violence in the South Asian diaspora.","authors":"Bagmi Das, Qi Chen, Yuqing Qiu, Hanyun Li","doi":"10.1037/aap0000298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000298","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46922,"journal":{"name":"Asian American Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83875320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Falling behind and forgotten: The impact of acculturation and spirituality on the mental health help-seeking behavior of Filipinos in the USA.","authors":"Jacquelene M. Lopez, Jane M. Tram","doi":"10.1037/aap0000293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46922,"journal":{"name":"Asian American Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87301931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article offers guidelines for psychological practitioners on ways to best support the well-being of Asian American/Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) through the COVID-19 global pandemic. The article argues that strengthening the connection with their intersecting identities is essential to the well-being of diverse AAPIs, especially given three interconnected and added strains: anti-Asian rhetoric and ensuing violence, invisible and intensified structural inequalities, and exacerbated mental health disparity. To facilitate AAPIs ongoing development and connection with their intersecting identities, three complementary theoretical approaches are introduced as the foundation of practice guidelines offered. The approaches include a culturally affirming developmental approach that fosters growth and resilience consistent with AAPIs identities;a multicultural feminist approach that promotes, empowers, and advocates for AAPIs by acknowledging structural power differentials within multiple interlocking systems of oppression;and a social justice-oriented psychoanalytic approach that recognizes structural impacts and offers attentive listening to the voices of AAPIs whose experiences are otherwise unheard. To support AAPIs through and beyond the pandemic, psychological practitioners must familiarize themselves with identity development theories relevant to AAPIs, participate in social advocacy by acknowledging and affirming differences within and external to AAPI communities, and expand on one's ability to listen for the diverse experiences that are unspoken, unheard, or uncomfortable to digest embedded in the oppressive structure. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement Strengthening Asian American/Pacific Islanders (AAPIs') connection with intersecting identities is key to AAPIs collective well-being given the three added and interconnected strains (i.e., intensified anti-Asian rhetoric, structural inequality, and mental health disparity) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Practitioners should incorporate advocacy, recognize power differentials, and engage in depthful listening when helping AAPIs develop toward an increasingly mature and nuanced connection with their intersecting identities, which contribute to resilience and healing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
{"title":"Strengthening intersecting identities of diverse AAPIs through and post COVID-19: Guidelines for psychological practitioners.","authors":"Mengchun Chiang","doi":"10.1037/aap0000297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000297","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers guidelines for psychological practitioners on ways to best support the well-being of Asian American/Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) through the COVID-19 global pandemic. The article argues that strengthening the connection with their intersecting identities is essential to the well-being of diverse AAPIs, especially given three interconnected and added strains: anti-Asian rhetoric and ensuing violence, invisible and intensified structural inequalities, and exacerbated mental health disparity. To facilitate AAPIs ongoing development and connection with their intersecting identities, three complementary theoretical approaches are introduced as the foundation of practice guidelines offered. The approaches include a culturally affirming developmental approach that fosters growth and resilience consistent with AAPIs identities;a multicultural feminist approach that promotes, empowers, and advocates for AAPIs by acknowledging structural power differentials within multiple interlocking systems of oppression;and a social justice-oriented psychoanalytic approach that recognizes structural impacts and offers attentive listening to the voices of AAPIs whose experiences are otherwise unheard. To support AAPIs through and beyond the pandemic, psychological practitioners must familiarize themselves with identity development theories relevant to AAPIs, participate in social advocacy by acknowledging and affirming differences within and external to AAPI communities, and expand on one's ability to listen for the diverse experiences that are unspoken, unheard, or uncomfortable to digest embedded in the oppressive structure. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement Strengthening Asian American/Pacific Islanders (AAPIs') connection with intersecting identities is key to AAPIs collective well-being given the three added and interconnected strains (i.e., intensified anti-Asian rhetoric, structural inequality, and mental health disparity) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Practitioners should incorporate advocacy, recognize power differentials, and engage in depthful listening when helping AAPIs develop toward an increasingly mature and nuanced connection with their intersecting identities, which contribute to resilience and healing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)","PeriodicalId":46922,"journal":{"name":"Asian American Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78254337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Puja Patel, Michelle Y Martin Romero, G. Stein, Vaishali V. Raval
{"title":"Promoting pride but missing the need for preparation for bias: Racial-ethnic socialization among Indian American families living in the southeast U.S.","authors":"Puja Patel, Michelle Y Martin Romero, G. Stein, Vaishali V. Raval","doi":"10.1037/aap0000296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000296","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46922,"journal":{"name":"Asian American Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83652256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas P Le, Benjamin T Bradshaw, Min Q Wang, Bradley O Boekeloo
While past research has examined the deleterious effects of racism on Asian Americans, fewer studies have investigated lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian Americans' unique experiences of oppression and unbelonging within the broader LGBT community. Guided by intersectionality and minority stress theoretical frameworks, the present study examined the effect of discomfort due to one's race/ethnicity within the LBGT community on psychological wellbeing in a national sample of 480 LGBT Asian Americans from the Social Justice Sexuality Project. The moderating role of how important one considered their race/ethnicity to their identity was also examined. Regression analyses revealed that greater discomfort due to one's race/ethnicity within the LGBT community was associated with reduced psychological wellbeing for LGBT Asian Americans who viewed their racial/ethnic identity as moderately or highly important, whereas this association was not significant for LGBT Asian Americans who considered their racial/ethnic identity as less important. These findings highlight the necessity of examining the role of racial/ethnic discomfort in relation to LGBT Asian Americans' psychological wellbeing, as well as the extent to which LGBT Asian Americans consider their race/ethnicity as important.
{"title":"Discomfort in LGBT Community and Psychological Wellbeing for LGBT Asian Americans: The Moderating Role of Racial/Ethnic Identity Importance.","authors":"Thomas P Le, Benjamin T Bradshaw, Min Q Wang, Bradley O Boekeloo","doi":"10.1037/aap0000231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000231","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While past research has examined the deleterious effects of racism on Asian Americans, fewer studies have investigated lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian Americans' unique experiences of oppression and unbelonging within the broader LGBT community. Guided by intersectionality and minority stress theoretical frameworks, the present study examined the effect of discomfort due to one's race/ethnicity within the LBGT community on psychological wellbeing in a national sample of 480 LGBT Asian Americans from the Social Justice Sexuality Project. The moderating role of how important one considered their race/ethnicity to their identity was also examined. Regression analyses revealed that greater discomfort due to one's race/ethnicity within the LGBT community was associated with reduced psychological wellbeing for LGBT Asian Americans who viewed their racial/ethnic identity as moderately or highly important, whereas this association was not significant for LGBT Asian Americans who considered their racial/ethnic identity as less important. These findings highlight the necessity of examining the role of racial/ethnic discomfort in relation to LGBT Asian Americans' psychological wellbeing, as well as the extent to which LGBT Asian Americans consider their race/ethnicity as important.</p>","PeriodicalId":46922,"journal":{"name":"Asian American Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9380649/pdf/nihms-1696430.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9928546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnic-racial discrimination towards Asian Americans amidst COVID-19, the so-called “China” virus and associations with mental health.","authors":"Virginia W. Huynh, Vaishali V. Raval, M. Freeman","doi":"10.1037/aap0000264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000264","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46922,"journal":{"name":"Asian American Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84785887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-19 racial discrimination on mental health and life satisfaction among Asian Americans: Examining a moderated mediation model.","authors":"Seungbin Oh,Stacey Diane Arañez Litam","doi":"10.1037/aap0000267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000267","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46922,"journal":{"name":"Asian American Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138509873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}