Eunjung Kim1, Kevin C Cain. 1. Department of Family and Child Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Abstract
PROBLEM: Korean American adolescents tend to experience more mental health problems than adolescents in other ethnic groups. METHODS: The goal of this study was to examine the association between Korean American parent-adolescent relationships and adolescents' depressive symptoms in 56 families. FINDINGS: Thirty-nine percent of adolescents reported elevated depressive symptoms. Adolescents' perceived low maternal warmth and higher intergenerational acculturation conflicts with fathers were significant predictors for adolescent depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: The findings can be used to develop a family intervention program, the aim of which would be to decrease adolescent depressive symptoms by promoting parental warmth and decreasing parent-adolescent acculturation conflicts.
PROBLEM: Korean American adolescents tend to experience more mental health problems than adolescents in other ethnic groups. METHODS: The goal of this study was to examine the association between Korean American parent-adolescent relationships and adolescents' depressive symptoms in 56 families. FINDINGS: Thirty-nine percent of adolescents reported elevated depressive symptoms. Adolescents' perceived low maternal warmth and higher intergenerational acculturation conflicts with fathers were significant predictors for adolescent depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: The findings can be used to develop a family intervention program, the aim of which would be to decrease adolescent depressive symptoms by promoting parental warmth and decreasing parent-adolescent acculturation conflicts.
Authors: Heeseung Choi; Linda Stafford; Janet C Meininger; Robert E Roberts; David P Smith Journal: Issues Ment Health Nurs Date: 2002-12 Impact factor: 1.835