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THE RELATIONSHIP OF ETHNICITY, GENDER, ACCULTURATION,
INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS, AND SENSE OF BELONGING IN THE
INSTITUTION TO ACADEMIC SUCCESS AMONG
ASIAN AMERICAN UNDERGRADUATES
by
Hyang Helen Chung
_________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2011
Copyright 2011 Hyang Helen Chung
Object Description
| Title | The relationship of ethnicity, gender, acculturation, intergenerational relations, and sense of belonging in the institution to academic success among Asian American undergraduates |
| Author | Chung, Hyang Helen |
| Author email | hyangchu@usc.edu; hyang92c@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-09 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-04-07 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Chung, Ruth |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Cole, Darnell Clark, Ginger |
| Abstract | This study seeks to contribute to the exploration of the factors affecting today’s Asian American college student population by investigating the relationship between ethnicity, gender, acculturation, intergenerational conflicts, and sense of belonging in the institution, on the one hand, and these students’ academic performance, on the other. Data were collected from 265 Asian American undergraduate students who completed an online survey consisting of queries for demographic information as well as questions from the Asian American Multidimensional Acculturation Scale, the Intergenerational Conflict Inventory, the Sense of Belonging Scale, and the College Self-Efficacy Inventory.; The results of this study revealed that acculturation, intergenerational conflicts, and sense of belonging were significant predictors of academic performance among Asian American college students. Specifically, intergenerational conflicts over education and career were found to be important influences on students’ GPA and higher course self-efficacy, while acculturation to European-American culture was found to be a significant predictor of self-efficacy for the subscales of social and roommate self-efficacy. Sense of belonging in the institution also positively influenced all three subscales of self-efficacy. Given the lack of previous empirical research investigating this relationship among Asian American students, these results demand that higher education institutions pay greater attention to strengthening their students’ sense of belonging. Regarding gender differences, interestingly female students reported higher GPAs than male students while also reporting higher family conflict surrounding dating and marriage. Although such findings showed mixed results, this study can contribute fruitfully to a limited number of studies that have considered the impact of gender differences among Asian American young people.; Above all, this study demonstrates that there is significant diversity among Asian American college students, even within a limited sample of generally high-achieving students at a selective four-year university. And the components of this diversity are not only ethnicity and gender, but also patterns of acculturation, of intergenerational conflicts, of immigration and generational differences, and of attaining a sense of belonging. |
| Keyword | student affairs; acculturation; sense of belonging; Asian American; immigration; intergenerational relations; gender |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3724 |
| Rights | Chung, Hyang Helen |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Chung-4428 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Chung-4428.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | THE RELATIONSHIP OF ETHNICITY, GENDER, ACCULTURATION, INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS, AND SENSE OF BELONGING IN THE INSTITUTION TO ACADEMIC SUCCESS AMONG ASIAN AMERICAN UNDERGRADUATES by Hyang Helen Chung _________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2011 Copyright 2011 Hyang Helen Chung |
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