Personal goals and depression among Vietnamese American and European American young adults: a mediational analysis. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The authors report preliminary findings supporting the utility of the self-concordance model (K. M. Sheldon & A. J. Elliot, 1999) as an alternative approach to studying depression among Vietnamese American (N = 121) and European American (N = 155) college students. The participants completed measures of personal goals, goal self-concordance, and depression. Compared with the European American participants, the Vietnamese American participants reported higher levels of depression and lower levels of goal self-concordance. According to mediational analyses, ethnicity no longer accounted for significant variance in depression after the authors statistically controlled for goal self-concordance.

publication date

  • February 1, 2002

Research

keywords

  • Asian
  • Asian Americans
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Depression
  • European Continental Ancestry Group
  • Goals
  • Students
  • White People
  • Whites

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0036480178

PubMed ID

  • 11913837

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 142

issue

  • 1