A Resilience-Disclosure Intervention for Managing Stigmatised North Korean Refugee Identity: A Quasi-Randomised Controlled Trial

IF 1.6 3区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

International Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI:10.1002/ijop.70066

Hwayeon Myeong, Hyunjung Jo, Hyunhee Cho, Tyrone J. Sgambati, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Jason Okonofua

{"title":"A Resilience-Disclosure Intervention for Managing Stigmatised North Korean Refugee Identity: A Quasi-Randomised Controlled Trial","authors":"Hwayeon Myeong, Hyunjung Jo, Hyunhee Cho, Tyrone J. Sgambati, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Jason Okonofua","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70066","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n <p>North Korean refugee (NKR) undergraduate students in South Korean universities often conceal their NKR identity to mitigate discrimination, a strategy that can impede social connection and access to vital resources for college adjustment. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a resilience-disclosure intervention designed to encourage strategic identity management over complete concealment. In a quasi-randomised controlled trial, NKR students were assigned to either a resilience-disclosure intervention (<i>n</i> = 75) or a control intervention (<i>n</i> = 68) condition. The resilience-disclosure intervention highlighted strengths associated with participants' stigmatised NKR identity and encouraged intergroup contact, while the control intervention focused on general strategies for college success without addressing NKR identity. Results demonstrated that the intervention significantly buffered the decline of identity disclosure among participants with heightened concerns about identity-based rejection. These findings contribute to the literature on psychological interventions, intergroup relations, and the experiences of individuals with CSIs, offering practical strategies to address challenges faced by NKRs.</p>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"60 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijop.70066","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

North Korean refugee (NKR) undergraduate students in South Korean universities often conceal their NKR identity to mitigate discrimination, a strategy that can impede social connection and access to vital resources for college adjustment. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a resilience-disclosure intervention designed to encourage strategic identity management over complete concealment. In a quasi-randomised controlled trial, NKR students were assigned to either a resilience-disclosure intervention (n = 75) or a control intervention (n = 68) condition. The resilience-disclosure intervention highlighted strengths associated with participants' stigmatised NKR identity and encouraged intergroup contact, while the control intervention focused on general strategies for college success without addressing NKR identity. Results demonstrated that the intervention significantly buffered the decline of identity disclosure among participants with heightened concerns about identity-based rejection. These findings contribute to the literature on psychological interventions, intergroup relations, and the experiences of individuals with CSIs, offering practical strategies to address challenges faced by NKRs.

查看原文本刊更多论文

管理被污名化的朝鲜难民身份的弹性披露干预：一项准随机对照试验

在韩国大学就读的朝鲜难民（NKR）本科生通常会隐瞒自己的身份，以减轻歧视，这一策略可能会阻碍社会联系和获得大学调整所需的重要资源。本研究评估了旨在鼓励战略性身份管理而不是完全隐藏的弹性披露干预的有效性。在一项准随机对照试验中，NKR学生被分配到弹性披露干预组（n = 75）或对照干预组（n = 68）。复原力披露干预强调了与参与者被污名化的NKR身份相关的优势，并鼓励群体间接触，而控制干预侧重于大学成功的一般策略，而不涉及NKR身份。结果表明，干预显著缓冲了对基于身份的拒绝高度关注的参与者的身份披露的下降。这些发现为心理干预、群体间关系和CSIs个体经历方面的文献做出了贡献，为解决NKRs面临的挑战提供了实用的策略。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

International Journal of Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

0.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： The International Journal of Psychology (IJP) is the journal of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) and is published under the auspices of the Union. IJP seeks to support the IUPsyS in fostering the development of international psychological science. It aims to strengthen the dialog within psychology around the world and to facilitate communication among different areas of psychology and among psychologists from different cultural backgrounds. IJP is the outlet for empirical basic and applied studies and for reviews that either (a) incorporate perspectives from different areas or domains within psychology or across different disciplines, (b) test the culture-dependent validity of psychological theories, or (c) integrate literature from different regions in the world.