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The Effect of Intergenerational Conflict and School-Based Racial Discrimination on Depression and Academic Achievement in Filipino American Adolescents
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (2006)
  • Yu-Wen Ying, University of California - Berkeley
  • Meekyung Han, San Jose State University
Abstract
Bronfenbrenner's ecological model postulates the home and school to be key microsystems in fostering emotional well-being and school functioning in children. Utilizing a sample of 663 Filipino American adolescents who participated in the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we assessed the effect of intergenerational conflict at home and racial discrimination at school on their mental health and academic achievement. Cross-sectionally, intergenerational conflict and school-based racial discrimination increased depression and decreased academic achievement in early adolescence. Longitudinally, conflict and discrimination in early adolescence decreased academic performance while conflict alone increased depression in late adolescence. Implications of the findings were discussed.
Keywords
  • Intergenerational conflict,
  • racial discrimination,
  • depression,
  • academic achievement,
  • Filipino American,
  • adolescents
Disciplines
Publication Date
2006
DOI
10.1300/J500v04n04_03
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Citation Information
Yu-Wen Ying and Meekyung Han. "The Effect of Intergenerational Conflict and School-Based Racial Discrimination on Depression and Academic Achievement in Filipino American Adolescents" Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies Vol. 4 Iss. 4 (2006) p. 19 - 35 ISSN: 1556-2948
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/meekyung-han/24/