Gupta Vineeta, Johnstone Lucy, Gleeson Kate
Psychol Psychother. 2007 Dec;80(Pt 4):481-95. doi: 10.1348/147608307X173986.
To explore the experiences of young second-generation South Asian women living in Britain; to try and understand their experiences, deconstruct the term cultural conflict and understand it within a psychological framework. In particular, the aim was to explore issues of separation and individuation, and the meanings attributed to these concepts.
An interview-based study using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to analyse the data.
Interviews were conducted with six second-generation South Asian women aged 16-20, who had no prior contact with mental health services.
Five main themes were identified from the analysis: differences in the meaning of adulthood, community policing, pressures and stressors, protective factors/coping and barriers to coping.
The participants' perceived differences in the meaning of adulthood in Asian cultures in comparison with Western cultures. These differences, in conjunction with the community policing that they were exposed to, contributed to the pressures and stressors - in particular lack of control and a desire to make individual decisions. The results indicated that the differences in the meaning of adulthood in a collective culture challenged the assumptions of the separation-individuation model, and was a key element in cultural conflict. This highlighted the complexities of generalizing research findings across all social groups, and questioned the validity of applying existing psychological theory to this population. The clinical implications of coping/protective factors and barriers to coping were discussed.
探究生活在英国的第二代南亚裔年轻女性的经历；试图理解她们的经历，解构“文化冲突”这一术语，并在心理学框架内理解它。特别要探讨分离与个体化问题，以及赋予这些概念的意义。
一项基于访谈的研究，采用解释现象学分析方法分析数据。
对6名年龄在16至20岁之间、此前未接触过心理健康服务的第二代南亚裔女性进行访谈。
分析确定了五个主要主题：成年意义的差异、社区治安、压力和应激源、保护因素/应对方式及应对障碍。
与西方文化相比，参与者察觉到亚洲文化中成年意义存在差异。这些差异，再加上她们所经历的社区治安，导致了压力和应激源，尤其是缺乏掌控感以及做出个人决定的愿望。结果表明，集体文化中成年意义的差异对分离 - 个体化模型的假设提出了挑战，并且是文化冲突的关键要素。这凸显了将研究结果推广至所有社会群体的复杂性，并质疑了将现有心理学理论应用于该人群的有效性。讨论了应对/保护因素及应对障碍的临床意义。
