Influences of personal standards and perceived parental expectations on worry for Asian American and White American college students

The current study examined perceptions of living up to parental expectations (LPE) and personal standards as possible mediators of the relationship between ethnicity and worry in a sample of 836 Asian American and 856 White American college students. Asian Americans reported higher frequency of acad...

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Published in:Anxiety, stress, and coping stress, and coping, 2013-03, Vol.26 (2), p.187-202
Main Authors: Saw, Anne, Berenbaum, Howard, Okazaki, Sumie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Affectivity. Emotion
anxiety
Anxiety - ethnology
Anxiety - etiology
Anxiety - psychology
Asian Americans - psychology
Asians
Biological and medical sciences
college students
Educational Status
European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
goal setting
Goals
Humans
Male
Parent-Child Relations - ethnology
parental expectations
Parents - psychology
Personality. Affectivity
Psychological Tests
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
racial and ethnic differences
Self Concept
Surveys and Questionnaires
Young Adult
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Summary:The current study examined perceptions of living up to parental expectations (LPE) and personal standards as possible mediators of the relationship between ethnicity and worry in a sample of 836 Asian American and 856 White American college students. Asian Americans reported higher frequency of academic- and family-related worries, but they did not report higher levels of global tendency to worry. Perceptions of LPE of current academic performance and personal standards for preparation for a future career partially explained ethnic differences in frequency of academic worry. Personal standards and perceptions of LPE for respect for the family partially explained ethnic differences in frequency of family worry. The findings highlight the importance of targeting domain-specific personal standards and perceived parental expectations to reduce worry among Asian Americans.
ISSN:1061-5806
1477-2205
DOI:10.1080/10615806.2012.668536