Relationships of Social Support, Stress, and Health among Immigrant Chinese Women in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation Modeling
Social support could help immigrant Chinese women in Japan to improve health. However, these women suffer from numerous stresses associated with acculturation and child-rearing, which could impact the effect of social support on mental and physical health. This study aims to identify the relationshi...
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| description | Social support could help immigrant Chinese women in Japan to improve health. However, these women suffer from numerous stresses associated with acculturation and child-rearing, which could impact the effect of social support on mental and physical health. This study aims to identify the relationships among social support, acculturative stress, parenting stress, mental health, and physical health to propose a structural path model of these relationships and to evaluate the mediating role of stress between social support and health. A questionnaire was used to collect data for the main variables and demographic factors. A total of 109 women participated (mean age 33.9 ± 5.6 years). The results show that immigrant Chinese women in Japan experienced a low level of mental health (44.7 ± 9.8). Additionally, social support directly influenced parenting stress (<i>β</i> = −0.21, <i>p</i> < 0.05), acculturative stress (<i>β</i> = −0.19, <i>p</i> < 0.05), and mental health (<i>β</i> = 0.31, <i>p</i> < 0.001) and indirectly influenced physical health (<i>β</i> = 0.09, <i>p</i> < 0.05). Parenting stress partially mediated the association between social support and mental health (<i>β</i> = 0.09, <i>p</i> < 0.05). To protect the effectiveness of social support on mental health, it is essential to reduce the parenting stress of immigrant Chinese women. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fd9d664fa2bd4e29ba1479bbdc63b9da2023-12-03T12:06:15ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322021-03-019325810.3390/healthcare9030258Relationships of Social Support, Stress, and Health among Immigrant Chinese Women in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation ModelingYunjie Luo0Yoko Sato1Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0812, JapanFaculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0812, JapanSocial support could help immigrant Chinese women in Japan to improve health. However, these women suffer from numerous stresses associated with acculturation and child-rearing, which could impact the effect of social support on mental and physical health. This study aims to identify the relationships among social support, acculturative stress, parenting stress, mental health, and physical health to propose a structural path model of these relationships and to evaluate the mediating role of stress between social support and health. A questionnaire was used to collect data for the main variables and demographic factors. A total of 109 women participated (mean age 33.9 ± 5.6 years). The results show that immigrant Chinese women in Japan experienced a low level of mental health (44.7 ± 9.8). Additionally, social support directly influenced parenting stress (<i>β</i> = −0.21, <i>p</i> < 0.05), acculturative stress (<i>β</i> = −0.19, <i>p</i> < 0.05), and mental health (<i>β</i> = 0.31, <i>p</i> < 0.001) and indirectly influenced physical health (<i>β</i> = 0.09, <i>p</i> < 0.05). Parenting stress partially mediated the association between social support and mental health (<i>β</i> = 0.09, <i>p</i> < 0.05). To protect the effectiveness of social support on mental health, it is essential to reduce the parenting stress of immigrant Chinese women.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/3/258social supportparenting stressacculturative stressmental healthphysical healthimmigrants |
| spellingShingle | Yunjie Luo Yoko Sato Relationships of Social Support, Stress, and Health among Immigrant Chinese Women in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation Modeling Healthcare social support parenting stress acculturative stress mental health physical health immigrants |
| title | Relationships of Social Support, Stress, and Health among Immigrant Chinese Women in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation Modeling |
| title_full | Relationships of Social Support, Stress, and Health among Immigrant Chinese Women in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation Modeling |
| title_fullStr | Relationships of Social Support, Stress, and Health among Immigrant Chinese Women in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation Modeling |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationships of Social Support, Stress, and Health among Immigrant Chinese Women in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation Modeling |
| title_short | Relationships of Social Support, Stress, and Health among Immigrant Chinese Women in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation Modeling |
| title_sort | relationships of social support stress and health among immigrant chinese women in japan a cross sectional study using structural equation modeling |
| topic | social support parenting stress acculturative stress mental health physical health immigrants |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/3/258 |
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