What Parents Say and do: Parental Responses to Asian American Young Adult Mental Health and Help Seeking.

IF 1.8 3区心理学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Journal of Child and Family Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI:10.1007/s10826-026-03259-4

Miwa Yasui, Eunseok Jeong

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Asian American cultures may hold culturally construed views of mental health and help-seeking that are contrary to Western, biomedical notions of mental health and treatment. Asian American young adults may learn culturally specific views of mental health and help-seeking through the family, which is the primary socialization context for children. Parental mental health socialization, a central mechanism through which parents transmit messages about mental health and help-seeking to children, is designed to shape the way Asian American young adults understand and respond to distress. This study developed and tested the Parental Mental Health Socialization - Parental Responses (PMHS-PR) scale, one of the first measures of parental processes of mental health socialization among a sample of 486 Asian American young adults. Using a split sample approach, exploratory factor analysis first determined the factor structure of the measure on Sample 1 (n = 243), followed by a confirmatory factor analysis on Sample 2 (n = 243). Correlations between derived factors with measures of stigma attitudes and mental health outcomes were examined. Results revealed a bifactor structure with one general factor of parental mental health socialization and five specific factors: Parental Stigma Toward Youth, Parental Supportiveness, Enduring and Overcoming Distress, Hiding Mental Health from Others, and Parental Silence. The PMHS-PR showed good internal consistency reliability and concurrent validity with depression and somatic symptoms and stigma attitudes towards mental illness. Findings indicate that the PMHS-PR is a multidimensional, psychometrically sound scale that measures broadband and narrowband dimensions of parent mental health socialization among Asian Americans that are linked to salient young adult mental health outcomes. This signals its importance in identifying familial influences that centrally shape mental health attitudes and help-seeking among Asian American young adults.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10826-026-03259-4.

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父母说什么做什么：父母对亚裔美国年轻人心理健康和寻求帮助的反应。

亚裔美国人文化对心理健康和寻求帮助的看法可能与西方生物医学的心理健康和治疗观念相反。亚裔美国年轻人可以通过家庭学习特定文化的心理健康和寻求帮助的观点，这是儿童的主要社会化背景。父母心理健康社会化是父母向孩子传递心理健康和求助信息的核心机制，旨在塑造亚裔美国年轻人理解和应对痛苦的方式。本研究开发并测试了父母心理健康社会化-父母反应（PMHS-PR）量表，这是在486名亚裔美国年轻人中进行的父母心理健康社会化过程的首批测量之一。采用分割样本方法，探索性因子分析首先确定了样本1 （n = 243）的因素结构，然后对样本2 （n = 243）进行了验证性因子分析。研究了与污名态度和心理健康结果测量的衍生因素之间的相关性。结果表明，父母心理健康社会化具有1个一般因素和5个特殊因素的双因素结构：父母对青少年的污名化、父母的支持性、承受和克服痛苦、对他人隐瞒心理健康和父母沉默。PMHS-PR与抑郁、躯体症状和对精神疾病的污名态度具有良好的内部一致性、信度和并发效度。研究结果表明，PMHS-PR是一个多维度的、心理测量学上健全的量表，它测量了亚裔美国人父母心理健康社会化的宽带和窄带维度，这些维度与显著的年轻人心理健康结果有关。这表明了它在识别家庭影响方面的重要性，这些影响主要塑造了亚裔美国年轻人的心理健康态度和寻求帮助。补充资料：在线版本包含补充资料，下载地址：10.1007/s10826-026-03259-4。

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Journal of Child and Family Studies Multiple-

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3.60

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300

期刊介绍： Journal of Child and Family Studies (JCFS) international, peer-reviewed forum for topical issues pertaining to the behavioral health and well-being of children, adolescents, and their families. Interdisciplinary and ecological in approach, the journal focuses on individual, family, and community contexts that influence child, youth, and family well-being and translates research results into practical applications for providers, program implementers, and policymakers. Original papers address applied and translational research, program evaluation, service delivery, and policy matters that affect child, youth, and family well-being. Topic areas include but are not limited to: enhancing child, youth/young adult, parent, caregiver, and/or family functioning; prevention and intervention related to social, emotional, or behavioral functioning in children, youth, and families; cumulative effects of risk and protective factors on behavioral health, development, and well-being; the effects both of exposure to adverse childhood events and assets/protective factors; child abuse and neglect, housing instability and homelessness, and related ecological factors influencing child and family outcomes.