Lueck & Wilson 2010

Question 1

acculturative stress

Answer 1

Acculturative stress refers to the stressors associated with being an immigrant or ethnic minority and going through the acculturation process.

Question 2

acculturation

Answer 2

4 types:

• assimilation (lose old culture gain new culture)
• integration (two culture yay)
• marginalization (no no culture)
• separation (keep og culture no new one)

Question 3

aim

Answer 3

investigate the variables that may predict acculturative stress in a nationally representative sample of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans.

Question 4

participants

Answer 4

2095 Asian Americans.

1271 of the participants were first-generation immigrants who were 18 years and older when they came to the US.

The rest of the sample was born in the US to first-generation immigrant parents. The sample consisted of several different Asian cultures, including Chinese, Filipino, and Vietnamese.

Question 5

procedure

Answer 5

semi-structured interviews measured the level of the participants acculturative stress

They also measured the impact of language proficiency, language preference, discrimination, social networks, family cohesion, and socioeconomic status on acculturative stress.

Question 6

results

Answer 6

70% of the sample found to have acculturative stress

• bilinguals have less acculturative stress
• speaking the 2nd language only is high acculturative stress
• negative treatment contributes to high acculturative stress
• sharing views with family contributes to lower acculturative stress
• good econimic opportunitoies lower

Question 7

strengths

Answer 7

• semi structured interviews are more personal than a questionnaire or a structured interview
• they allow for far follow up questions and elaborations
• this avoids the problem where an individual did not understand the question or wrote something ambiguous/undeveloped.
• The sample is representative in the sense that it is diverse

Question 8

weakness

Answer 8

• carrying out a large number of semi structured interviews is time consuming and expensive
• open to interviewer effects
  (where characteristics of the interviewer may lead the interviewee to disclose less (or more) information.)

-the constructs of acculturative stress and level of acculturation are relatively subjective

• there are certain assumptions made about “Asians” which could result in the “ecological fallacy” - for example, assumptions that the cultures are collectivistic without actually measuring each individual’s level of collectivism.