Citation

Lau AS, Jernewall NM, Zane NWS, Myers HF. Cultur. Divers. Ethnic Minor. Psychol. 2002; 8(3): 199-213.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. alau@casrc.org

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues; American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12143098

Abstract

Medical record abstraction was conducted at an ethnic-specific mental health outpatient clinic to identify correlates of suicidal behaviors in a sample of 285 Asian American youths. Some risk factors, such as parent-child conflict and age, which have been associated with suicidality in majority group youths, predicted suicidality in this sample, whereas other risk factors, such as gender, did not generalize to this sample. Acculturation interacted with the risk factor of parent-child conflict to predict suicidality. Less acculturated Asian youths were at proportionally greater risk for suicidality under conditions of high parent-child conflict than were their more acculturated counterparts. This finding underscores the importance of culture as a context for determining the relevance of stressors for potentiating psychopathology.

Language: en