Ying Yu-Wen, Han Meekyung, Tseng Marilyn
University of California, Berkeley.
J Hum Behav Soc Environ. 2012;22(1):20-38. doi: 10.1080/15433714.2011.597303. Epub 2012 Jan 24.
The experience of acculturation in Chinese immigrant women from the rural coastal province of Fujian has not been well studied despite of their growing numbers in American cities. This exploratory study is an attempt to examine the experience of acculturation and post-migration stress in Fujianese immigrant women as compared to those from other parts of China. The study is based on a convenience sample 240 Fujianese and 162 non-Fujianese Chinese immigrant women living in Philadelphia.Results from bivariate analyses showed that the variation in demographic characteristics between Fujianese and non-Fujianese women was marginal; that all Chinese women in this study reported experiencing a unidimensional process of acculturation and a domain-generic model of acculturation; and that the Fujianese women showed a higher level of post-migration stress than the non-Fujianese women. In multiple regression controlling for demographic characteristics and including all the women in our sample, more acculturated women reported a higher level of post-migration stress. However, separate multiple regression analyses for Fujianese and non-Fujianese women revealed a different pattern of post-migration stress models. The findings suggest the importance of further research to understand acculturation and post-migration stress among Fujianese immigrant women.
尽管来自沿海农村省份福建的华裔移民女性在美国城市中的数量不断增加,但对她们的文化适应经历却鲜有研究。本探索性研究旨在考察福建移民女性与来自中国其他地区的移民女性相比,其文化适应经历和移民后压力情况。该研究基于一个便利样本,选取了居住在费城的240名福建移民女性和162名非福建华裔移民女性。双变量分析结果显示,福建女性和非福建女性在人口统计学特征上的差异很小;本研究中的所有华裔女性都报告经历了一维的文化适应过程和文化适应的领域通用模型;并且福建女性比非福建女性表现出更高水平的移民后压力。在控制人口统计学特征并纳入样本中所有女性的多元回归分析中,文化适应程度更高的女性报告的移民后压力水平更高。然而,对福建女性和非福建女性分别进行的多元回归分析揭示了不同的移民后压力模型模式。研究结果表明,进一步开展研究以了解福建移民女性的文化适应和移民后压力具有重要意义。