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Asian American Mental Health: What We Know And What We Don't Know, Joyce P. Chu, Stanley Sue
Asian American Mental Health: What We Know And What We Don't Know, Joyce P. Chu, Stanley Sue
Online Readings in Psychology and Culture
This chapter reviews and critically examines issues regarding the mental health of Asians in the United States. As a distinct ethnic group in the United States, Asian Americans have experienced value conflicts between their own ethnic culture and that of mainstream Americans, as well as instances of racial prejudice and discrimination. Given these experiences, it is important to examine the mental health status of Asian Americans. Several consistent research findings have emerged. First, few Asian Americans utilize the mental health system. Second, those who do use services are highly disturbed in terms of psychiatric disorders. Third, cultural factors appear to …
Those Wonderful People Across The Sea: Positive Out-Group Bias By Caucasians Toward Asians, Wing Sze Leung, Shue Ying Ting
Those Wonderful People Across The Sea: Positive Out-Group Bias By Caucasians Toward Asians, Wing Sze Leung, Shue Ying Ting
Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences
While individuals often favor their in-group, they sometimes favor an out-group, such as when Caucasians positively stereotype Asians' quantitative abilities. It is unclear, however, whether positive stereotypes of Asians extend into other domains and create a generalized halo effect that influences judgments on other attributes. To examine this, three studies were performed. In Study 1, Asians and Caucasians were equally biased toward an Asian's response to a calculus problem. In Study 2, Asians, but not Caucasians, gave lower grades to essay writers they guessed were Asian. In Study 3, Caucasians rated their ethnic group with fewer positive terms and more …