{"id":6999,"date":"2010-05-05T20:43:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T20:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6999"},"modified":"2010-05-05T20:43:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T20:43:57","slug":"biracial-asian-americans-and-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6999","title":{"rendered":"Biracial Asian Americans and Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.ucdavis.edu\/search\/news_detail.lasso?id=8732\" target=\"_blank\">Biracial Asian Americans and Mental Health<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of California, Davis<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.ucdavis.edu\" target=\"_blank\">News and Information<\/a><br \/>\n2008-08-10<\/p>\n<p>A new study of Chinese-Caucasian, Filipino-Caucasian, Japanese-Caucasian and Vietnamese-Caucasian individuals concludes that biracial Asian Americans are twice as likely as monoracial Asian Americans to be diagnosed with a psychological disorder.<\/p>\n<p>The study by researchers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.ucdavis.edu\/aacdr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian American Center on Disparities Research<\/a> at the University of California, Davis, was reported Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up to 2.4 percent of the U.S. population self-identifies as mixed race, and most of these individuals describe themselves as biracial,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.ucdavis.edu\/faculty\/Zane\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nolan Zane<\/a>, a professor of psychology and Asian American studies at UC Davis. &#8220;We cannot underestimate the importance of understanding the social, psychological and experiential differences that may increase the likelihood of psychological disorders among this fast-growing segment of the population.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.ucdavis.edu\/search\/news_detail.lasso?id=8732\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biracial Asian Americans and Mental Health University of California, Davis News and Information 2008-08-10 A new study of Chinese-Caucasian, Filipino-Caucasian, Japanese-Caucasian and Vietnamese-Caucasian individuals concludes that biracial Asian Americans are twice as likely as monoracial Asian Americans to be diagnosed with a psychological disorder. The study by researchers at the Asian American Center on Disparities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,125,8,20],"tags":[2911,2909,2910],"class_list":["post-6999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-asian-american-center-on-disparities-research","tag-lauren-berger","tag-nolan-zane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}