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Cultural orientation and racial discrimination: Predictors of coherence in Chinese American young adults
Author(s) -
Ying YuWen,
Lee Peter A.,
Tsai Jeanne L.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(200007)28:4<427::aid-jcop5>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - chinese americans , immigration , psychology , multiculturalism , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , social psychology , ethnic group , developmental psychology , sociology , geography , mathematics , anthropology , statistics , pedagogy , archaeology
The study examined the contribution of domain‐specific cultural orientation and racial discrimination to subjective competence (as measured by sense of coherence) in American‐born and immigrant Chinese American young adults. It was hypothesized that sense of coherence would be more strongly predicted by domain‐specific cultural orientation for immigrants, but by racial discrimination for American‐borns. A total of 122 American‐born and 231 immigrant Chinese American college students living in a multicultural setting participated in this study. As hypothesized, domain‐specific cultural orientation more strongly predicted sense of coherence for immigrants (coherence varied by cultural orientation on all three life domains studied) than for American‐borns (coherence varied by cultural orientation on only one domain). Also, racial discrimination more strongly predicted sense of coherence for American‐borns than immigrants. Implications of the findings are discussed. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.