Acculturation/enculturation and internalized model minority myth in Korean immigrant families.

ABSTRACT: Drawing on Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory (1977), this study examined the antecedents and outcomes of internalized model minority myth (MMM) within the microsystem of family and the macrosystem of culture. Among Korean immigrant families, we examined how mothers' internalized MMM (i.e., achievement orientation, unrestricted mobility) and youth's cultural orientations (i.e., acculturation, enculturation) were related to youth's internalized MMM and had direct and indirect relations to youth outcomes (i.e., life satisfaction, depression, antisocial behaviors, and academic performance). In a sample of 334 Korean immigrant mother-youth dyads (155 female youth; 132 foreign-born youth; M_age of youth = 16.37; M_age of mothers = 46.94), we cond

SUBMITTER: Yoon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10348698 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature