%0 Journal Article
%T Acculturative Family Distancing, Mother每Daughter Relationship, and Well
%A Meifen Wei
%A Stacy Y. Ko
%J The Counseling Psychologist
%@ 1552-3861
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0011000018776997
%X This study examined how mother每daughter connectedness may moderate: (a) the effect of acculturative family distancing (AFD) on psychological well-being (PWB), (b) the effect of mother每daughter conflict on PWB, and (c) the mediation effect of AFD on PWB through mother每daughter conflict. Four hundred and ten Asian American students completed an online survey. Our first hypothesis was not supported; the relation between AFD and PWB was significantly negative for those with higher connectedness but not significant for those with lower connectedness. We found support for the second and third hypotheses, whereby the associations were significantly negative at very low levels of connectedness, significantly positive at very high levels of connectedness, and not statistically significant at low, moderate, or high levels of connectedness. Our findings highlight the protective nature of connectedness in the mother每daughter relationship, which challenges the notion that cultural differences within Asian American families are necessarily associated with negative outcomes
%K acculturative family distancing
%K psychological well-being
%K mother每daughter family conflict
%K connectedness
%K Asian American
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0011000018776997