ABSTRACT After conducting a survey study with cross-sectional data involving 377 Korean Americans, this study finds that (1) Korean Americans mainly interacting with European Americans report a lower level of depressive symptoms than those in frequent contact with African Americans or Latino/as; (2) a model involving the relationships between Korean Americans’ perceived ethnic distance, personal-relational and personal-enacted identity gaps, and level of depressive symptoms is tenable; and (3) comparisons of the model applied to three groups of Korean Americans who interact with different ethnic groups reveal that relationships between the perceived ethnic distance and the identity gaps are accentuated for Korean Americans who predominantly interact with African Americans and attenuated with those in frequent contact with European Americans. Possible explanations for the different levels of depressive symptoms according to the ethnicities of the Korean Americans’ major interaction partners are discussed.

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朝鲜裔美国人与主要互动对象的种族有关的抑郁症状水平各异：比较和解释

摘要在对涉及377名韩裔美国人的横断面数据进行了一项调查研究之后，该研究发现：（1）与经常与非裔美国人或拉丁美洲人/ as经常接触的人相比，主要与欧美人互动的韩裔人的抑郁症状水平较低；（2）涉及韩裔美国人感知的种族距离，个人关系和个人设定的身份差距以及抑郁症状水平之间的关系的模型是成立的；（3）对三组与不同种族互动的韩裔美国人的模型的比较表明，对于主要与非裔美国人互动，但经常与非裔美国人互动的韩裔美国人而言，感知种族距离和身份差距之间的关系更加突出与欧美人联系。