While the first entry of Chinese immigrants to Canada dates back to more than a century, in 1967
when the Canadian immigration policy changed, Chinese immigrants from China, Hong Kong
and Taiwan became the top source of migration. Over the past few decades, the process of
acculturation and mental health of Chinese immigrants has received attention in cross-cultural
research. Researchers are particularly interested in investigating the stress experienced by
immigrants during the process of acculturation and the ways of dealing with such stress. The
thesis reports on a study that explores acculturative stress, length of residence, and cohesion of
Chinese immigrants in Canada. The results from this study showed that enmeshment (a high
level of family cohesion or family togetherness) and flexibility (a high level of adaptability to
change family rules and roles) are related to a lower level of acculturative stress in Chinese
immigrant mothers in Vancouver, British Columbia. Of particular interest was the effect of
cohesion and adaptability on the social dimension of acculturative stress. Additionally, the
results showed that length of residence did not predict acculturative stress in Chinese immigrant
families. Limitations, contributions, and implications of the present study for future
acculturation research are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/11902 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Leung, Pansy |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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