Acculturation Moderates the Association of Psychological Distress with Willingness to Seek Professional Help in a Sample of Japanese Immigrants to the US

We found support for the hypothesis that Japanese Immigrants’ levels of assimilation (i.e., their length of US residency and what language they speak at home) moderate the relation between their attitudes about their own general mental health statuses (e.g., general negative affect) and their willingness to seek mental health treatment.