APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Acculturative Stress, Social Support, and Identity Integration: Studying Psychological Health Among University Students with an Immigrant Background
- Namrata Poola
University of California, Los Angeles - Namrata Poola
University of California - Irvine (Department of Psychological Science) - Wakana Matsumoto
UCLA Psychology Department - Alecco Walli
University of California, Los Angeles - Lana Bohsali
University of California, Los Angeles - Joseph Awad
University of California, Los Angeles - Yuna Shegai
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
Our proposed study examines the psychological health of immigrant-background university students, exploring how social support and bicultural identity integration buffer depression and anxiety. Using validated scales in an online undergraduate survey, we hypothesize lower psychopathology and higher self-esteem among supported, integrated students, with first-generation immigrant students experiencing greater acculturative stress.
Psychopathology
