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ISSN : 2233-6710(Print)
ISSN : 2384-2121(Online)
Journal of Asia Pacific Counseling Vol.1 No.1 pp.93-110
DOI : https://doi.org/10.18401/2011.1.1.7

Identifying Heterogeneous Subpopulations Amongst Asian Americans Using Latent Profile Analysis

Seong-Hyeon Kim, Michelle Fukumoto, Takisha M. McNeill

Fuller Theological Seminary
Received December 13, 2010, Revision received January 29, 2011, Accepted February 14, 2011

Abstract

This study sought to identify heterogeneous subpopulations among Asian Americans in which the relationships betweenacculturation, racism-related stress, forgiveness/unforgiveness, three coping strategies styles, and physical health differ fromeach other using latent profile analysis (LPA; Bartholomew & Knott, 1999). The sample consisted of 278 participants fromtwo states of the United States: Hawaii and California. The fit indices and the class membership of the sample indicated thata two-class model provides the best fit to the data. In a two-class LPA model, one class demonstrated significantly higherlevels in racism-related stress, dysfunctional coping, problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping, and physical healththan the other class. This can be interpreted as indicating that Asian Americans who are stressed both psychologically andphysically need to adopt all available coping strategies to deal with racism-related stress and poor health. In the conditionalmodel, only the variable of past contact with psychologists significantly predicted class membership.

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