Sumie Okazaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 105563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sumie Okazaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sumie |
| FAMILY NAME | Okazaki |
| SIGNATURE | OKAZAKI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6837-770X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 575 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Covid-19 Racial Discrimination and Substance Use among Asian Americans by Gender
Maternal and paternal emotion socialization practices and psychosocial adjustment from early- to mid-adolescence among urban Chinese families
Longitudinal studies of emotion socialization are still lacking in the Majority World. Studies with father data are particularly scarce. The present study drew data from a 15-year longitudinal project of urban Chinese families and examined both concurrent and longitudinal associations between parental emotion socialization (ES) practices and youth psychosocial adjustment from early- to mid-adolescence. Youths ( N = 272, 52.9% boys, M age = 9.77 y…
Maternal Sensitivity Predicts Child Attachment in a Non-Western Context: A 9-Year Longitudinal Study of Chinese Families
Despite the long-standing debate over the assumed universality of maternal sensitivity predicting attachment security (i.e., sensitivity hypothesis), few long-term longitudinal investigations on attachment have been conducted outside the Western context. We leveraged data from a prospective 9-year longitudinal study of middle-class families (N = 356; female = 48.9%) in China to examine if early maternal sensitivity predicts attachment representat…
Inter-minority Relations: Factors Shaping Cognitive and Affective Intergroup Attitudes between Asian and Black Americans
Rising anti-Asian racism and the recent police killings of unarmed Black people have called attention to how Asian and Black Americans experience racism and how they perceive one another. Using data from a recent national sample of Asian (n = 1078) and Black Americans (n = 367), we explored socio-demographic (demographic, socioeconomic, political, and immigration) as well as group-relevant predictors of intergroup attitudes between Asian and Blac…
Facilitators and barriers in the college pathways of working-class immigrant-origin youth of color in New York City
A Flawed Policy Metaphor: An Empirical Test of Earlier Academic Promise and Later STEM Outcomes
Purpose: Although the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline has been the most common policy framework to understand why ethnoracial disparities are some of the most glaring, few studies have empirically assessed whether the relationship between early academic preparation, such as for standardized tests, grades, and coursework, and later outcomes is the same across racial/ethnic groups. Research Methods/Approach: This study us…
Mapping Anti-Asian Xenophobia: State-Level Variation in Implicit and Explicit Bias against Asian Americans across the United States
Using national data from Project Implicit, the authors examine state-level variations in implicit and explicit bias against Asian Americans held by non–Asian Americans ( n = 196,678) from 2018 to 2022. The authors also explore state-level sociodemographic correlates of both types of bias. The findings reveal considerable heterogeneity in implicit and explicit bias across states. Moreover, Republican and swing states had higher levels of implicit …
From racial awakening to collective action: Asian Americans’ pathways to activism and benevolent support during Covid-19
While anti-Asian discrimination was associated with both distress and engagement in collective action during the COVID-19 pandemic, group differences in mediational processes highlight the importance of disaggregating analyses to explore both similarities and differences in Asian Americans' responses to discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Disaggregating the data: Diversity of Covid-19 stressors, discrimination, and mental health among Asian American communities
Much of the public discourse as well as research regarding the negative impact of COVID-19-related anti-Asian discrimination has been conducted at the broad racial group level, yet data aggregation masks critical points of diversity among Asian Americans. We conducted an online survey of 620 Asian American adults in December 2020 and examined whether there were any demographic differences–including by ethnic subgroup and Chinese street race (bein…
What is career success? A new Asian American psychology of working
Model minority stereotypes of Asian Americans as high educational and occupational achievers are perpetuated by conceptual and methodological issues in career development research that aggregate across Asian ethnicities and oversample high achievers. These issues render those marginalized, such as working-class immigrants with limited English proficiency, as well as their children, as invisible within research, practice, and policy. A new theoret…
Advancing Research Within Asian American Psychology Using Asian Critical Race Theory and an Asian Americanist Perspective
Research within Asian American psychology continually grows to include a range of topics that expand on the heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity of the Asian American psychological experience. Still, research focused on distinct racialization and psychological processes of Asians in America is limited. To advance scientific knowledge on the study of race and racism in the lives of Asian Americans, we draw on Asian critical race theory and a…
Becoming Multicultural: Kinship Development of Korean Adolescents With Asian Cross-Border Marriage Migrant Stepmothers
In Korea, more than one-third of cross-border marriages are remarriages for at least one spouse, yet little is known about the experiences of Korean adolescents who enter into a blended multicultural family through their father’s remarriages. The current study examined the experiences of 10 Korean (seven female) adolescents ( M age = 15.9 years) primarily from low-income families with Korean fathers and non-Korean stepmothers using content analys…
Individual variations in stress response to racial microaggressions among Asian Americans
Documentation status and psychological distress among New York City community college students
The study provides new insights into how immigration status influences the psychological well-being of community college students and introduces a quantifiable framework to better understand the construct of fear of deportation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Going the Distance
This chapter explores transnational educational migrant families in South Korea, often called “ kirogi ” (wild geese) families because of the long distances members travel. Drawing on literature in various fields, the authors provide an overview of major themes, research foci, and recent developments. Whereas earlier studies focused on individual-level experiences and domestic-level factors underlying the educational “exodus,” recent research has…
Identities of accommodation; identities of resistance: Korean American women and meaning making during and post college
To explore individual identity narratives of accommodation and resistance in relationship to dominant American social, political and cultural constructs, this paper uses the Listening Guide Method of Qualitative Inquiry ( Gilligan et al., 2006 ) to investigate the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender and American identity during and post college among four second-generation, college educated, Korean American women. The analysis, drawing f…
Reactive and proactive ethnic–racial socialization practices of second-generation Asian American parents
Studies of Asian American parenting have primarily focused on first-generation immigrant parents. Few studies have examined the experiences of second-generation Asian American adults who now have children of their own. The purpose of this qualitative study, then, is to better understand the values, practices, and concerns of second-generation Asian American parents regarding ethnic and racial socialization. The sample included 34 Asian American p…
Strategic collaborative partnerships to improve immigrant Chinese community health: A case study
Decreases in implicit self-esteem explain the racial impact of microaggressions among Asian Americans
Asian Americans are commonly perceived as perpetual foreigners and, therefore, not "true" Americans. Asian Americans report inquiries about nationality and English abilities as the most common forms of racial microaggressions perpetrated by White Americans (Sue, 2015). Race theorists assert that these microaggressions are race-related and marginalize Asian Americans. Scholars have claimed that these subtle acts are harmful, yet only a few studies…
Short-Term ‘Intensive Mothering’ on a Budget: Working Mothers of Korean Children Studying Abroad in Southeast Asia
Awkward Questions About Asian American Achievement
South Korea's Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad
The What, the Why, and the How: A Review of Racial Microaggressions Research in Psychology
Addressing Asian American mental health disparities: Putting community-based research principles to work
Social Anxiety and Mental Health Service Use Among Asian American High School Students
Asian-American educational achievements: A phenomenon in search of an explanation
The Colonial Mentality Scale (CMS) for Filipino Americans: Scale construction and psychological implications
Colonial mentality, or internalized colonialism, has been discussed by scholars and by Filipino American community members as a significant factor in the experiences of contemporary Filipino Americans, yet this construct has not received empirical attention in psychology. The authors of the current study addressed this gap in the Asian American psychological literature by developing the Colonial Mentality Scale for Filipino Americans, a theoretic…
Bicultural self-efficacy among college students: Initial scale development and mental health correlates
Theory and empirical research suggest that perceived self-efficacy, or one's perceived ability to perform personally significant tasks, is related to individuals' psychological well-being and mental health. Thus, the authors hypothesized that bicultural individuals' perceived ability to function competently in 2 cultures, or perceived bicultural self-efficacy, would be related positively to their psychological well-being and mental health. Three …
Reactive and proactive ethnic–racial socialization practices of second-generation Asian American parents
Studies of Asian American parenting have primarily focused on first-generation immigrant parents. Few studies have examined the experiences of second-generation Asian American adults who now have children of their own. The purpose of this qualitative study, then, is to better understand the values, practices, and concerns of second-generation Asian American parents regarding ethnic and racial socialization. The sample included 34 Asian American p…
Impact of Racism on Ethnic Minority Mental Health
A problem in ethnic minority mental health that can be solved in the foreseeable future is understanding how subtle and covert forms of racism affect psychological health of racial minorities. Although scientific psychology has generated a large body of literature on racial prejudice, stereotypes, intergroup attitudes, and racial bias and their often implicit and automatic nature, relatively little is known about the effects of these subtle racia…
Influences of culture on Asian Americans' sexuality
Asian Americans comprise a population group that is characterized by an enormous demographic, historical, and cultural heterogeneity, yet Asian Americans also share many Asian cultural characteristics such as the primacy of the family and the collective's goals over individual wishes, emphasis on propriety and social codes, the appropriation of sexuality only within the context of marriage, and sexual restraint and modesty. Although there are sig…
Unidimensional versus multidimensional approaches to the assessment of acculturation for Asian American populations
This study used generational status and the Suinn-Lew Asian Self-Identity Acculturation scale to examine unidimensional versus multidimensional approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of acculturation and their relationships to relevant cultural indicator variables, including measures of Individualism-Collectivism, Independent-Interdependent Self-Construal, Loss of Face, and Impression Management. Multivariate analyses of covariance a…
Asian American and White American Differences on Affective Distress Symptoms: Do Symptom Reports Differ Across Reporting Methods
This study examined whether Asian Americans and White Americans would show differential patterns of reporting their levels of depressive and social anxiety symptoms depending on the method of reporting. Standard self-report measures of depressive, social anxiety, and somatic symptomatology as well as measures of cultural self- construal and social desirability were administered twice to Asian American and White American participants. The results …
Decreases in implicit self-esteem explain the racial impact of microaggressions among Asian Americans
Asian Americans are commonly perceived as perpetual foreigners and, therefore, not "true" Americans. Asian Americans report inquiries about nationality and English abilities as the most common forms of racial microaggressions perpetrated by White Americans (Sue, 2015). Race theorists assert that these microaggressions are race-related and marginalize Asian Americans. Scholars have claimed that these subtle acts are harmful, yet only a few studies…
Gender, family, and community correlates of mental health in South Asian Americans
Nationally representative data from the National Latino and Asian American Study (Alegría et al., 2004) was used to examine both disorder prevalence rates and correlates of distress for the South Asian American subgroup (n = 164). South Asian Americans generally appeared to have lower or comparable rates of lifetime and 12-month mood and anxiety disorders when compared with the overall Asian American sample. A multiple-regression model fitted to …
Redeeming Immigrant Parents: How Korean American Emerging Adults Reinterpret Their Childhood
Korean American youth experience immigration-related parent-child challenges including language barriers, parent-child conflicts, and generational cultural divides. Using grounded theory methods, this article examines the ways in which 18 Korean American college-enrolled emerging adults retrospectively made sense out of their experiences of immigrant family hardships. Of those who narrated childhood hardship, over half narrated positive change in…
A Qualitative Investigation of the Cultural Adjustment Experiences of Asian International College Women
This qualitative study explored the cultural adjustment experiences of 15 Asian Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese international college women through semistructured interviews. By using consensual qualitative research methodology (C. E. Hill, B. J. Thompson, & E. N. Williams, 1997), 6 primary domains or themes related to these women's cultural adjustment experiences were identified via data analysis: their feelings and thoughts about livin…
Asian American Mental Health: Assessment Theories and Methods
Asian American Mental Health is a state-of-the-art compendium of the conceptual issues, empirical literature, methodological approaches, and practice guidelines for conducting culturally informed asse
History of Asian American psychology
An overview of the history of Asian American psychology is provided by reviewing the context for the development of the field as well as the early founding of the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA). The presidents of AAPA as well as key events and conferences are noted. The involvement of AAPA leaders in national mental health policies and activities are reviewed. The substantive areas of Asian American psychology and the education a…
Asian American-White American differences in expressions of social anxiety: A replication and extension
This study examined whether Asian American-White American differences on a trait measure of social anxiety extend to nonverbal behavior and to reports of anxiety-related emotions during a 3-min social performance task. Forty Asian Americans and 40 White Americans completed a trait measure of social anxiety and rated their emotions before, and immediately after, a social performance task. Their videotaped behavior was coded using microlevel behavi…
Teaching Gender Issues in Asian American Psychology: A Pedagogical Framework
This article presents a set of pedagogical approaches and suggested topics and materials for teaching gender issues in Asian American psychology. The experiences of contemporary Asian American women and men must be understood with an appreciation for the larger social, political, and historical contexts in which they live. Thus, several topics designed to “set the stage” for exploration of gender issues are presented. Central issues in teaching g…
Opposite Ends of the Same Stick? Multi-Method Test of the Dimensionality of Individualism and Collectivism
The construct of individualism-collectivism (IND-COL) has become the definitive standard in cross-cultural psychology, management, and related fields. It is also among the most controversial, in particular, with regard to the ambiguity of its dimensionality: Some view IND and COL as the opposites of a single continuum, whereas others argue that the two are independent constructs. We explored the issue through seven different tests using original …
Individual variations in stress response to racial microaggressions among Asian Americans
Short-Term ‘Intensive Mothering’ on a Budget: Working Mothers of Korean Children Studying Abroad in Southeast Asia
Advancing Research Within Asian American Psychology Using Asian Critical Race Theory and an Asian Americanist Perspective
Research within Asian American psychology continually grows to include a range of topics that expand on the heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity of the Asian American psychological experience. Still, research focused on distinct racialization and psychological processes of Asians in America is limited. To advance scientific knowledge on the study of race and racism in the lives of Asian Americans, we draw on Asian critical race theory and a…
Happiness in the Eye and the Heart: Somatic Referencing in West African Emotion Lexica
Although many theories about the structure of emotion have been developed, none of them seem to adequately explain the African experience. This study examined the folk emotion lexica of two indigenous West African languages. Fifty monolingual Fante speakers and 50 monolingual Dagbani speakers from rural and semirural Ghana participated in focus groups to generate words in their native language that they use to describe experiences that involve em…
Documentation status and psychological distress among New York City community college students
The study provides new insights into how immigration status influences the psychological well-being of community college students and introduces a quantifiable framework to better understand the construct of fear of deportation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
From racial awakening to collective action: Asian Americans’ pathways to activism and benevolent support during Covid-19
While anti-Asian discrimination was associated with both distress and engagement in collective action during the COVID-19 pandemic, group differences in mediational processes highlight the importance of disaggregating analyses to explore both similarities and differences in Asian Americans' responses to discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Navigating the cultural transition alone: Psychosocial adjustment of Korean early study abroad students
Precollege study abroad in English-speaking countries is an increasingly popular educational strategy among Asian families. We used grounded theory method to construct a model of cultural adjustment process for unaccompanied minors based the retrospective narratives of 10 (8 male) South Korean adolescents who came to the United States, unaccompanied by parents, to attend middle schools or high schools. We found that unaccompanied minors' cultural…
Culture in Asian American Community Psychology: Beyond the East–West Binary
In response to a call to better integrate culture in community psychology (O'Donnell in American Journal of Community Psychology 37:1–7 2006 ), we offer a cultural‐community framework to facilitate a collaborative engagement between community psychologists and ethnic minority communities, focusing on Asian American communities as illustrations. Extending Hays' (Addressing cultural complexities in practice: Assessment, diagnosis, and therapy, Amer…
Asian-American educational achievements: A phenomenon in search of an explanation
Explanations for Asian-American achievements: A reply
Explanations for Asian-American achievements: A reply
Asian-American women in the mental health system: An examination of ethnic and gender match between therapist and client
The present study investigated the simultaneous effects of ethnic and gender therapist-client match on mental health services. The sample consisted of over 1,000 Asian-American women who received mental health services at Los Angeles County facilities in the mid-1980s. Regression analyses were employed to determine the effects of match on client satisfaction (i.e., premature termination, length of treatment), therapists' assessment of client func…
Methodological issues in assessment research with ethnic minorities.
Sources of ethnic differences between Asian American and White American college students on measures of depression and social anxiety.
Psychological Assessment of Asian Americans: Research Agenda for Cultural Competency
Although the number and the ethnic composition of Asian American populations in the United States have changed dramatically in the last 2 decades, we have little empirical support for what constitutes a culturally competent assessment practice with individuals from this population group. It is argued that major sociodemographic shifts within the Asian American population in the past few decades pose particular challenges to conducting assessment …
Teaching Gender Issues in Asian American Psychology: A Pedagogical Framework
This article presents a set of pedagogical approaches and suggested topics and materials for teaching gender issues in Asian American psychology. The experiences of contemporary Asian American women and men must be understood with an appreciation for the larger social, political, and historical contexts in which they live. Thus, several topics designed to “set the stage” for exploration of gender issues are presented. Central issues in teaching g…
Treatment delay among Asian-American patients with severe mental illness
Length of treatment delay and cultural-familial correlates were studied in a group of 62 Asian-American patients with severe mental illness, and 40 of their relatives. Contrary to prior findings of long treatment delay among Asian Americans, this cohort reported relatively low levels of stigma and shame and relatively short delay between onset of psychiatric symptoms and inception of treatment. Higher levels of shame and stigma felt by the relati…
Asian American and White American Differences on Affective Distress Symptoms: Do Symptom Reports Differ Across Reporting Methods
This study examined whether Asian Americans and White Americans would show differential patterns of reporting their levels of depressive and social anxiety symptoms depending on the method of reporting. Standard self-report measures of depressive, social anxiety, and somatic symptomatology as well as measures of cultural self- construal and social desirability were administered twice to Asian American and White American participants. The results …
Unidimensional versus multidimensional approaches to the assessment of acculturation for Asian American populations
This study used generational status and the Suinn-Lew Asian Self-Identity Acculturation scale to examine unidimensional versus multidimensional approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of acculturation and their relationships to relevant cultural indicator variables, including measures of Individualism-Collectivism, Independent-Interdependent Self-Construal, Loss of Face, and Impression Management. Multivariate analyses of covariance a…
Unidimensional versus multidimensional approaches to the assessment of acculturation for Asian American populations
Cultural Variations in Self-Construal as a Mediator of Distress and Well-Being
Asian American-White American differences in expressions of social anxiety: A replication and extension
Asian American-White American differences in expressions of social anxiety: A replication and extension
This study examined whether Asian American-White American differences on a trait measure of social anxiety extend to nonverbal behavior and to reports of anxiety-related emotions during a 3-min social performance task. Forty Asian Americans and 40 White Americans completed a trait measure of social anxiety and rated their emotions before, and immediately after, a social performance task. Their videotaped behavior was coded using microlevel behavi…
Influences of culture on Asian Americans' sexuality
Asian Americans comprise a population group that is characterized by an enormous demographic, historical, and cultural heterogeneity, yet Asian Americans also share many Asian cultural characteristics such as the primacy of the family and the collective's goals over individual wishes, emphasis on propriety and social codes, the appropriation of sexuality only within the context of marriage, and sexual restraint and modesty. Although there are sig…
Asian American Mental Health: Assessment Theories and Methods
Asian American Mental Health is a state-of-the-art compendium of the conceptual issues, empirical literature, methodological approaches, and practice guidelines for conducting culturally informed asse
Cultural Norms and Subjective Disability as Predictors of Symptom Reports among Asian Americans and White Americans
Past studies have found that Asian Americans and White Americans differ not only on global levels of well- being but also on the bases for judgments of well-being. The authors examined whether cultural norms about specific mental health problems predict self-reports of those symptoms above and beyond the subjective assessment of their own functioning. Asian Americans ( n = 200) and White Americans ( n = 200) rated how normative they viewed depres…
Self-Concealment, Social Self-Efficacy, Acculturative Stress, and Depression in African, Asian, and Latin American International College Students
The primary purpose of this exploratory investigation was to examine self-concealment behaviors and social self-efficacy skills as potential mediators in the relationship between acculturative stress and depression in a sample of 320 African, Asian, and Latin American international college students. The authors found several differences by demography with regard to the study's variables. After controlling for regional group membership, sex, and E…
A Qualitative Investigation of the Cultural Adjustment Experiences of Asian International College Women
This qualitative study explored the cultural adjustment experiences of 15 Asian Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese international college women through semistructured interviews. By using consensual qualitative research methodology (C. E. Hill, B. J. Thompson, & E. N. Williams, 1997), 6 primary domains or themes related to these women's cultural adjustment experiences were identified via data analysis: their feelings and thoughts about livin…
Colonial mentality: A review and recommendation for filipino american psychology
Colonial mentality is a term used widely by ethnic studies scholars and by the Filipino American community to refer to a form of internalized oppression among Filipinos and Filipino Americans. The authors propose that colonial mentality is a construct that is central to the understanding of the psychology of contemporary Filipino Americans. Drawing on larger scholarship from postcolonial studies and psychological research on oppression, the autho…
Frequency and intensity of social anxiety in Asian Americans and European Americans
Asian American students have typically reported greater levels of social anxiety than European American students on self-report measures (e.g., Okazaki, 1997; Norasakkunkit & Kalick, 2002). This study employed an event-contingent experience sampling methodology to examine whether Asian American university students experienced social anxiety more often and more intensely than European Americans in their daily lives. Forty-five Asian American and 3…
The Colonial Mentality Scale (CMS) for Filipino Americans: Scale construction and psychological implications
Colonial mentality, or internalized colonialism, has been discussed by scholars and by Filipino American community members as a significant factor in the experiences of contemporary Filipino Americans, yet this construct has not received empirical attention in psychology. The authors of the current study addressed this gap in the Asian American psychological literature by developing the Colonial Mentality Scale for Filipino Americans, a theoretic…
Happiness in the Eye and the Heart: Somatic Referencing in West African Emotion Lexica
Although many theories about the structure of emotion have been developed, none of them seem to adequately explain the African experience. This study examined the folk emotion lexica of two indigenous West African languages. Fifty monolingual Fante speakers and 50 monolingual Dagbani speakers from rural and semirural Ghana participated in focus groups to generate words in their native language that they use to describe experiences that involve em…
Asian-American educational achievements: A phenomenon in search of an explanation
Considerable attention has been paid to the academic achievements of Asian Americans because there is convergent evidence that this population has attained high educational mobility. In trying to explain the achievement patterns, researchers have largely limited their investigations to one of two contrasting hypotheses involving (a) hereditary differences in intelligence between Asians and Whites and (b) Asian cultural values that promote educati…
Psychology (59 works) · Ethnic group (41 works) · Sociology (40 works) · Asian americans (30 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (29 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Social Psychology (23 works) · Anthropology (20 works) · Clinical Psychology (20 works) · Political science (20 works)