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Relationships of Social Support, Stress, and Health among Immigrant Chinese Women in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation Modeling
| Title: | Relationships of Social Support, Stress, and Health among Immigrant Chinese Women in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation Modeling |
| Authors: | Luo, Yunjie Browse this author | | Sato, Yoko Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
| Keywords: | social support | | parenting stress | | acculturative stress | | mental health | | physical health | | immigrants | | women |
| Issue Date: | Mar-2021 |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
| Journal Title: | Healthcare |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page: | 258 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.3390/healthcare9030258 |
| Abstract: | Social support could help immigrant Chinese women in Japan to improve health. However, these women suffer from numerous stresses associated with acculturation and child-rearing, which could impact the effect of social support on mental and physical health. This study aims to identify the relationships among social support, acculturative stress, parenting stress, mental health, and physical health to propose a structural path model of these relationships and to evaluate the mediating role of stress between social support and health. A questionnaire was used to collect data for the main variables and demographic factors. A total of 109 women participated (mean age 33.9 +/- 5.6 years). The results show that immigrant Chinese women in Japan experienced a low level of mental health (44.7 +/- 9.8). Additionally, social support directly influenced parenting stress (beta = -0.21, p < 0.05), acculturative stress (beta = -0.19, p < 0.05), and mental health (beta = 0.31, p < 0.001) and indirectly influenced physical health (beta = 0.09, p < 0.05). Parenting stress partially mediated the association between social support and mental health (beta = 0.09, p < 0.05). To protect the effectiveness of social support on mental health, it is essential to reduce the parenting stress of immigrant Chinese women. |
| Type: | article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/81143 |
| Appears in Collections: | 保健科学院・保健科学研究院 (Graduate School of Health Sciences / Faculty of Health Sciences) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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