Coping With Intergenerational Family Conflict Among Asian American College Students

Two coping strategies-problem solving and social support seeking-were hypothesized to differentially moderate the effects of intergenerational family conflict on well-being and adjustment in a college sample of 117 Asian American young adult children. Results indicated that social support served as...

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Published in:Journal of counseling psychology 2005-07, Vol.52 (3), p.389-399
Main Authors: Lee, Richard M, Su, Jenny, Yoshida, Emiko
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjustment
Asian Americans
Asians
Biological and medical sciences
College Students
Conflict
Coping
Coping Behavior
Couple and family
Families & family life
Family
Family Conflict
Family Influence
Family Relationship
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Help Seeking
Human
Intergenerational Relations
Intergenerational relationships
Male
Parent Child Relations
Problem Solving
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Social psychology
Social Support
Social Support Groups
Student Adjustment
Well Being
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Summary:Two coping strategies-problem solving and social support seeking-were hypothesized to differentially moderate the effects of intergenerational family conflict on well-being and adjustment in a college sample of 117 Asian American young adult children. Results indicated that social support served as a protective-stabilizing factor that buffered the effects of family conflict on positive affect and somatic distress. Problem-solving coping served as a protective-reactive factor that had a positive effect on positive affect when family conflict was low and a negative effect when family conflict was high. The potential implications of these findings for counseling and conducting research on Asian American college students are discussed.
ISSN:0022-0167
1939-2168
DOI:10.1037/0022-0167.52.3.389