• DOI:10.1037/a0033351
• Corpus ID: 43041655

Internalized model minority myth, Asian values, and help-seeking attitudes among Asian American students.

@article{Kim2014InternalizedMM,
  title={Internalized model minority myth, Asian values, and help-seeking attitudes among Asian American students.},
  author={Paul Youngbin Kim and Donghun Don Lee},
  journal={Cultural diversity \& ethnic minority psychology},
  year={2014},
  volume={20 1},
  pages={
          98-106
        }
}

• P. Kim, D. Lee
• Published 2014
• Psychology
• Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology

The present study examined cultural factors underlying help-seeking attitudes of Asian American college students (N = 106). Specifically, we explored internalized model minority myth as a predictor of help-seeking attitudes and tested an intrapersonal-interpersonal framework of Asian values as a mechanism by which the two are related. Results indicated that internalized model minority myth significantly predicted unfavorable help-seeking attitudes, and emotional self-control mediated this relationship. Interpersonal values and humility were nonsignificant mediators, contrary to our hypotheses. The findings suggest that the investigation of internalized model minority myth in help-seeking research is a worthwhile endeavor, and they also highlight emotional self-control as an important explanatory variable in help-seeking attitudes of Asian American college students.