Reflection and Writings

Reflections & Writings

Language Brokering and Adolescent Adjustment: Su Yeong Kim’s Insights from Immigrant Family Research

To most immigrant families in the United States, the process of settling into a new country entails not only adjusting to the new culture but...

Su Yeong Kim Explores How Mexican American Teens Experience Language Brokering Over Time

Language brokering is a daily reality for many immigrant children in the United States. Through this research study on the Longitudinal Measurement Equivalence of Subjective Language...

Stress, Parenting Practices, and Mental Health Among Mexican-Origin Mothers and Adolescents

Immigrant families are faced with a dilemma of learning to fit into the new culture without losing their identity. This balancing act may bring about...

When Culture Meets Marriage: Su Yeong Kim Explores How Immigrant Couples Adapt

Marriage is often described as a union of two people, but for immigrant couples, it is also a union of two cultural journeys. Every immigrant...

Su Yeong Kim’s Research on Mexican-Origin Families: Parenting and Adolescent Development Across Cultures

Parenting across cultures involves more than setting rules and showing affection; it is also about how families pass on cultural values that shape identity, resilience, and...

Su Yeong Kim on Ethnic Identity as a Protective Factor Against Substance Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors

The period of emerging adulthood is usually marked as a period of free time and discovery. However, to most college students, it is also a...

Su Yeong Kim Examines Family Obligation and Adolescent Well-Being in Mexican American Families

Family is a noted determinant to Mexican American adolescents, not only due to its provision of care, but as the central cultural identity. Some of the...

Reconsidering the Acculturation Gap: Su Yeong Kim’s Research on Resilience and Family Meaning

Much of the prior research on the “acculturation gap” has relied upon what scholars call a deficit perspective, focusing on how mismatches between parents’ and...

Su Yeong Kim’s Research Insights on Acculturation, Executive Functions, and Smoking Behaviors Among Mexican-Origin Youth

For many youth of immigrant origin in the U.S., daily life involves the dual burden of integrating into U.S. culture (acculturation) while retaining their heritage...

How Parental Discrimination Affects Ethnic Minority Teens: Su Yeong Kim’s Systematic Review

Discrimination continues to be a pervasive challenge for ethnic minority families in the United States and around the world. While much research has focused on...

Dr. Su Yeong Kim’s Study on the Well-Being of Mexican-Origin Families: How Family Support Counters Discrimination

Dr. Su Yeong Kim and colleagues examine how experiences of discrimination and practices of ethnoracial socialization affect mental health in Mexican-origin adolescents and their parents.

Dr. Su Yeong Kim’s Latest Study Reveals how Adolescents’ Stress Can Shape Mothers’ Wellbeing

Stress in the family does not exist by itself; it moves, transforms, and often catches us by surprise. For decades, scientists and physicians have toiled...

Dr. Su Yeong Kim on the Role of Culture and Stress in the Mental Health of Children of Immigrants

In the U.S. today, a quarter of all the children are being reared in immigrant families. By 2050, that ratio will be one in three....

Can Stress Be Inherited? Dr. Su Yeong Kim Explores How Culture and Stress Shape Cognitive Development in Immigrant Youth

The development of executive function an all-encompassing term for skills like memory, flexible thinking, and self-control, is crucial for success during adolescence. While biology certainly...

Dr. Su Yeong Kim on Parent-Child Acculturation and Academic Success in Chinese American Youth

Challenging the “model minority” stereotype, our research team conducted a groundbreaking study with 444 Chinese American families. The study examined how differences in cultural alignment...

Dr. Su Yeong Kim on Socio-Cognitive Factors Behind COVID-19 Vaccine Timing in Youth

In our latest research, published in the National Centre of Biotechnology Information named “Survival Analysis and Socio-Cognitive Factors in the Timing of COVID-19 Vaccination Among...

Dr. Su Yeong Kim’s Research Unveils the Long-Term Parenting Effects on Chinese American Adolescents’ Well-being

This research explores the psychological factors driving academic excellence among Chinese American adolescents. By following 444 families across early adolescence, middle adolescence, and emerging adulthood,...

Rethinking Parenting: Dr. Su Yeong Kim on Nurturing Chinese American Children with Balance

Amy Chua’s memoir in 2011, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, stirred a controversy over Asian American parenting. In the memoir, a highly controlling, no-nonsense form...

Dr. Su Yeong Kim’s Study Connects Everyday Discrimination to Cognitive Strain in Latinas

Discrimination doesn’t just bruise emotions; it shapes the way the brain functions years down the line. Our latest research explores how the chronic stress of...

Poor Little Tiger Cub

Cultural Stress, Parenting Practices, and Mental Health Among Mexican-Origin Mothers and Adolescents: A Dyadic Approach

Su Yeong Kim’s Study Reveals How Discrimination and Neighborhood Disadvantage Affect the Mental Health of Mexican-Origin Adolescents

Cultural Stress, Parenting Practices, and Mental Health Among Mexican-Origin Mothers and Adolescents: A Dyadic Approach

Insights from Su Yeong Kim’s Research on Language Brokering and School Performance

Cultural Stress, Parenting Practices, and Mental Health Among Mexican-Origin Mothers and Adolescents: A Dyadic Approach

Preserving Heritage Languages

Heritage language is vital for preserving cultural identity, fostering intergenerational connections, and combating global language loss through the promotion of multilingualism.

Acculturation as Adaptation: Dr. Su Yeong on Cultural Navigation Among Immigrant Families

A feature with Dr. Su Yeong Kim on how immigrant families navigate acculturation, emphasizing bicultural identity, intergenerational gaps, and cultural adaptation.

Su Yeong Kim’s Research on Discrimination, Language Brokering, and Academic Competence Among Mexican-Origin Youth

Children raised in many immigrant families are raised to live in two worlds. They use their heritage language at home. They speak English in school....

Longitudinal Profiles of Acculturation: Su Yeong Kim’s Analysis on Developmental Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Adolescents From Immigrant Families

The fact that adolescents of migrant families have to move between two cultures can be a challenge and an opportunity simultaneously. The Mexican-origin youth in...