Although epidemiological data show that Asians are less often diagnosed with social phobia than
are North Americans, North American studies show that Asians self-report higher levels of social
anxiety than their European heritage counterparts. The present study examined this apparent
discrepancy in an undergraduate sample of: a) students of Chinese heritage born in Hong Kong
or Taiwan (N= 65), b) Canadian-born students of Chinese heritage (N= 51), and c) Canadianborn
students of European heritage (N= 62). Participants completed a questionnaire battery as
well as a face-to-face interview that assessed levels of social anxiety and impairment. Results
showed that foreign-born Chinese participants reported significantly greater social anxiety and
impairment than students of European heritage in both the questionnaire and interview format.
The same general pattern was found among participants who had clinically severe levels of
social anxiety.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/15575 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Hsu, Lorena |
| 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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