Self-Concealment, Social Self-Efficacy, Acculturative Stress, and Depression in African, Asian, and Latin American International College Students

The primary purpose of this exploratory investigation was to examine self-concealment behaviors and social self-efficacy skills as potential mediators in the relationship between acculturative stress and depression in a sample of 320 African, Asian, and Latin American international college students....

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Published in:	American journal of orthopsychiatry Vol. 74; no. 3; pp. 230 - 241
Main Authors:	Constantine, Madonna G, Okazaki, Sumie, Utsey, Shawn O
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Educational Publishing Foundation 01-07-2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd American Orthopsychiatric Association American Psychological Association
Subjects:	Acculturation Adolescent Adult Adult and adolescent clinical studies African Continental Ancestry Group - psychology African Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data African Cultural Groups Africans Asian Continental Ancestry Group - psychology Asian Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data Asian Cultural Groups Asian people Asians Biological and medical sciences Black People College Students Colleges Crosscultural studies Deception Demographic Characteristics Demography Depression Depression (Emotion) Depression - ethnology Depression - psychology Empowerment Ethnic Groups Female Foreign Students Hispanic Americans Hispanic Americans - psychology Hispanic Americans - statistics & numerical data Hispanics Human Humans International Educational Exchange International Students Language Proficiency Latin American Cultural Groups Latinos/Latinas Male Medical sciences Mental depression Mental health Mental stress Middle Aged Mood disorders Psychology Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Self Self Disclosure Self Efficacy Selfconcealment Selfefficacy Social Skills Sociodemographic Factors Stress Students Students - psychology Surveys and Questionnaires Universities Verbal Fluency Asia Africa Latin America Mood disorder Social environment Human Asiatic University environment Depression Personality Student Latinamerican Ethnic group Stress Acculturation Risk factor Self efficacy Social aptitude African American
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Summary:	The primary purpose of this exploratory investigation was to examine self-concealment behaviors and social self-efficacy skills as potential mediators in the relationship between acculturative stress and depression in a sample of 320 African, Asian, and Latin American international college students. The authors found several differences by demography with regard to the study's variables. After controlling for regional group membership, sex, and English language fluency, they found that self-concealment and social self-efficacy did not serve as mediators in the relationship between African, Asian, and Latin American international students' acculturative stress experiences and depressive symptomatology. Implications of the findings are discussed.
Bibliography:	Shawn O. Utsey, PhD, Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, Howard University. Sumie Okazaki, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign Madonna G. Constantine, PhD, Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2
ISSN:	0002-9432 1939-0025
DOI:	10.1037/0002-9432.74.3.230