Culture and social support.
2008/01/01 by Heejung S. Kim, David K. Sherman, Shelley E. Taylor · 1,236 citations
Psychology · #Asian americans #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Clinical psychology #Cultural Differences and Values #Developmental psychology #Distress #Ethnic group #Feeling #Mental Health Treatment and Access #Mental health #Psychiatry #Psychology #Social psychology #Social support #Sociology
paper · open access · doi:10.1037/0003-066x
published in American Psychologist 63(6), 518-526 (American Psychological Association)
openalex publication_date 2008/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Abstract
Social support is one of the most effective means by which people can cope with stressful events. Yet little research has examined whether there are cultural differences in how people utilize their social support networks. A review of studies on culture and social support presents evidence that Asians and Asian Americans are more reluctant to explicitly ask for support from close others than are European Americans because they are more concerned about the potentially negative relational consequences of such behaviors. Asians and Asian Americans are more likely to use and benefit from forms of support that do not involve explicit disclosure of personal stressful events and feelings of distress. Discussion centers on the potential implications of these findings for intercultural interactions and for the use of mental health services by Asians and Asian Americans.
Cited by
- An Attachment Model of University Connectedness
- Towards Decolonising Computational Sciences
- The Social Cure Properties of Groups Across Cultures: Groups Provide More Support but Have Stronger Norms and Are Less Curative in Relationally Immobile Societies
- A Cross-Cultural Study in Germany, Russia, and China: Are Resilient and Social Supported Students Protected Against Depression, Anxiety, and Stress?
- Rater State Bias in RLHF Preference Data: An Audit Framework
- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LIGHT TRAUMA FOR THE INDUCTION, LOCALIZATION, AND FREQUENCY OF SKIN CANCERS.
- Changes in Parent, Sibling, and Peer Support During the Transition to Young Adulthood
- How does morality work in the brain? A functional and structural perspective of moral behavior
- An exploration of the dimensions of Filipino received social support
- Culture Moderates the Relation Between Perceived Stress, Social Support, and Mental and Physical Health
- Culture and emotion regulation
- Social support at work: An integrative review
- Tailored Emotional LLM-Supporter: Enhancing Cultural Sensitivity
- Collectivism and coping: Current theories, evidence, and measurements of collective coping
- Cross‐Cultural Evaluation of the Alcohol Relapse Risk Scale in an Australian Inpatient Setting
- Decision-making preferences for intuition, deliberation, friends or crowds in independent and interdependent societies
- Relational mobility and close relationships: A socioecological approach to explain cross‐cultural differences
- Scars That Shape Us: The Long-Term Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Mental Health
- Development of the Monash Dog Owner Relationship Scale (MDORS)
- Interplay between Tradition and Modernity: Stress and Coping Experiences among Parents of Children with Autism in Beijing, China
- Mental Health in China: Stigma, Family Obligations, and the Potential of Peer Support
- Preferences for Depression Help-Seeking Among Vietnamese American Adults
- Does a Favor Request Increase Liking Toward the Requester?
- Ninety years after Lewin: The role of familism and attachment style in social networks characteristics across 21 nations/areas
- Coping with discrimination in academia: Asian-American and Christian perspectives.
- Pupil Dilations Reflect Why Rembrandt Biased Female Portraits Leftward and Males Rightward
- Culture and the role of exchange vs. communal norms in friendship
- Trends in the prevalence of antenatal depression and social support among pregnant women in China, 2016–2021: A repeated cross-sectional study
- Relational mobility: A socioecological approach to personal relationships.
- Decolonizing Liberation: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology
- Barbara M. Byrne [wikipedia]
- Division of Psychotherapy [wikipedia]
- Human behavior [wikipedia]
- Integration of immigrants [wikipedia]
- Marcia K. Johnson [wikipedia]
- Critical periods of vulnerability for the developing nervous system: evidence from humans and animal models. [europepmc]
- Randomized, controlled trials, observational studies, and the hierarchy of research designs. [europepmc]
- The construct of resilience: a critical evaluation and guidelines for future work. [europepmc]
- The role of positive emotions in positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. [europepmc]
- Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence. [europepmc]
- Psychological stress and the human immune system: a meta-analytic study of 30 years of inquiry. [europepmc]
- The polyvagal perspective. [europepmc]
- Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries. [europepmc]
- A Short Scale for Measuring Loneliness in Large Surveys: Results From Two Population-Based Studies. [europepmc]
- A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking. [europepmc]
- Discrimination and racial disparities in health: evidence and needed research. [europepmc]
- Perceived discrimination and health: a meta-analytic review. [europepmc]
- How does sexual minority stigma "get under the skin"? A psychological mediation framework. [europepmc]
- Using the internet to promote health behavior change: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of theoretical basis, use of behavior change techniques, and mode of delivery on efficacy. [europepmc]
- Cognition and depression: current status and future directions. [europepmc]
- Shared decision making: a model for clinical practice. [europepmc]
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes. [europepmc]
- Exercise, physical activity, and self-determination theory: a systematic review. [europepmc]
- Stigma as a fundamental cause of population health inequalities. [europepmc]
- Calculating and reporting effect sizes to facilitate cumulative science: a practical primer for t-tests and ANOVAs. [europepmc]
- Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations. [europepmc]
- Estimating psychological networks and their accuracy: A tutorial paper. [europepmc]
- Psychometric assessment of three newly developed implementation outcome measures. [europepmc]
- Best Practices for Developing and Validating Scales for Health, Social, and Behavioral Research: A Primer. [europepmc]
- Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8. [europepmc]
Related