Ying Y W
School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley 94720-7400, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 1995 Dec;23(6):893-911. doi: 10.1007/BF02507020.
Examined cultural orientation in the domains of language proficiency, cultural activity, and social relationship, and its relationship with psychological well-being in a group of 143 Chinese Americans in San Francisco. Four indicators of psychological well-being were utilized, two assessing the experience of distress (depression level and negative affect) and two assessing positive well-being (positive affect and life satisfaction). Domain-specific cultural orientations were found to hold differential relationships with psychological well-being. For instance, bicultural activity orientation predicted the best psychological well-being (regardless as to how it was assessed), but socially separatist individuals experienced less negative affect than assimilated and bicultural respondents. Findings were discussed in the context of the multicultural setting of San Francisco. It is suggested that future research retain separate assessments of domain-specific cultural orientation, examine the contribution of the community's ethnic/cultural composition to its members' cultural orientations (i.e., address the role of person--environment fit) and study their impact on psychological well-being.
研究了旧金山143名华裔美国人在语言能力、文化活动和社会关系领域的文化取向，以及其与心理健康的关系。使用了四个心理健康指标，其中两个评估痛苦体验（抑郁水平和消极情绪），两个评估积极幸福感（积极情绪和生活满意度）。发现特定领域的文化取向与心理健康存在不同的关系。例如，双文化活动取向预示着最佳的心理健康（无论如何评估），但社会分离主义者比同化和双文化受访者经历的消极情绪更少。研究结果在旧金山多元文化背景下进行了讨论。建议未来的研究保留对特定领域文化取向的单独评估，研究社区的种族/文化构成对其成员文化取向的影响（即探讨人-环境匹配的作用），并研究它们对心理健康的影响。
