Mental Health of Youth in Korean Immigrant Families / 신경정신의학
Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
;
: 583-589, 2004.
Article
in Korean
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
Understanding the well-being of immigrant adolescents is complicated due to the empirical data showing poorer psychological and behavioral adjustment in native-born second generation immigrant children to those of foreign-born immigrant children. Some researchers argue the phenomenon of "healthy immigrant effect". This research is to examine the valicity of such effect.METHODS:
The immigrant sample for this study was drawn from the pool of families involved in the Korean Mental Health Study (Noh et al, 1992) in the Metro area of Toronto. Of the 860 families, 318 Korean adolescents participated in this study. Immigrant control and Canadian control samples participated in the same survey. ANOVA and MCA were used for the statistical analysis.RESULTS:
The self reported depression in Korean sample was slightly higher than the controls. The self reported anxiety level is slightly higher in Korean than the controls. The self-reported instrumental and social competence were lower among Korean youth compared to the foreign-born and Canadian-born controls.CONCLUSION:
The data are not consistent with the "healthy immigrant effect". A serious design issue in the studies of national data comparing immigrant children is that the impact of immigration on mental health can not be estimated accurately by comparing minority children of varying nativity status to children born in the host country. With close matching of the samples, we found that immigrant children do not have an advantage over their non-immigrant cohort.
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Main subject:
Anxiety
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Mental Health
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Cohort Studies
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Mental Competency
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Population Groups
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Depression
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Emigration and Immigration
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Emigrants and Immigrants
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Self Report
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Incidence study
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Observational study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
Year:
2004
Type:
Article
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