内容摘要： 北美的研究界一直在报道，与西方血统的人相比，亚裔人具有更高的社会焦虑。本研究采用由692名大学生组成的跨国样本，用事先规划的社会焦虑和相关变量的组间差异对照来探索解释性的假设。东亚社会化假说提出：社会焦虑与东亚文化范式的接触程度呈线性关系。但这一假说没有得到支持。文化差异的假设检验了是否双文化的东亚人调查对象（居住在加拿大）将承受比单文化调查对象更高的社会焦虑（西方血统的加拿大人和土生土长的韩国人和中国人）。与单文化调查对象相比，双文化的东亚人调查对象报告了较高的社会焦虑和抑郁，但这种关系部分地被双文化调查对象报告的较低的拓展社会关系的自我效能感和较低的社会地位知觉所中和。总体而言，研究结果表明较高的双文化东亚人社会焦虑的报道可能在其文化与主流文化差异的背景下被概念化了。

Abstract: North American research has consistently reported higher social anxiety among people of Asian heritage compared to people of Western heritage. The present study used a cross-national sample of 692 university students to explore explanatory hypotheses using planned contrasts of group differences in social anxiety and related variables. The East Asian socialization hypothesis proposed social anxiety would show a linear relation corresponding to the degree of exposure to East Asian cultural norms. This hypothesis was not supported. The cultural discrepancy hypothesis examined whether bicultural East Asian participants (residing in Canada) would endorse higher social anxiety in comparison to unicultural participants (Western-heritage Canadians and native Koreans and Chinese). Compared to unicultural participants, bicultural East Asian participants reported higher social anxiety and depression, a relation that was partially mediated by bicultural participants' reports of lower self-efficacy about initiating social relationships and lower perceived social status. Overall, the results suggest higher reports of social anxiety among bicultural East Asians may be conceptualized within the context of cultural discrepancy with the mainstream culture.

来源： 《Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology,》 2012年 第2期