Service Use by Asian Americans

Use of mental health services by Asian Americans.

This study explored the use of mental health services by Asian Americans and other ethnic populations (N=104,773) in California. The authors used linear regression analyses to assess the role of ethnicity and diagnosis in predicting six-month use of services. East Asians used more services than Southeast Asians, Filipinos, other Asians, Caucasians, African Americans, Latinos, and Native America...

Psychometric Examination of the Color-blind Racial Attitudes Scale for Use among Asian Americans by Sean

Asian Americans’ Earnings Disadvantage Reexamined

Past research on Asian Americans’ earnings suggests that Asian immigrants earn less than Whites and U.S.-born Asian Americans with comparable backgrounds. However, few studies have explored why Asian immigrants face an earnings disadvantage. This article investigates whether and to what extent this disadvantage can be attributed to the lower value of foreign education in the U.S. job market. By...

Asians, Asian-Americans and alcohol.

The association of flushing (vasodilation, reddening of the skin) with the alcohol use of Asians and Asian-Americans is examined. Historical changes in alcohol use, recent secular changes in alcohol use, and marked differences in consumption among Asian populations and among Asian-Americans of the same national origins, as well as the lack of reduction of sex differences among flushers, indicat...

The importance of family factors and generation status: mental health service use among Latino and Asian Americans.

The present study utilized data from the National Latino and Asian American Study to examine ethnic and generational differences in family cultural conflict and family cohesion and how the effects of such family conflict and cohesion on lifetime service use vary by generation status for Latino Americans (n = 2,554) and Asian Americans (n = 2,095). Findings revealed that first-generation Asian A...