Purpose

While intimate partner violence (IPV) has been widely researched in the past several decades, there remains a need to investigate culturally specific ways to respond to IPV survivors. Clergy play a crucial role as respondents to IPV in the Korean American (KA) community, yet further investigation is needed on what variables positively influence clergy response to IPV survivors. Thus, this study sought to examine the impact of acculturation, adherence to Asian values, generational status, and clergy-mental health professional collaboration on KA clergy responses to instances of IPV in their congregations.

Method

A total of 84 KA pastors were recruited through snowball sampling and completed surveys measuring demographics, adherence to Asian values, acculturation, generational status, and level of clergy-mental health professional collaboration. One-way ANOVA and hierarchical regression analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS.

Results

Results revealed significant generational differences in IPV intervention and referral behavior. In addition, while acculturation significantly predicted IPV intervention, clergy-mental health professional collaboration also significantly predicted referral behavior and intervention behaviors even after generational status, acculturation, and adherence to Asian values were accounted for.

Conclusions

These findings suggest that acculturation and clergy-mental health professional collaboration are particularly relevant variables in facilitating safety-promoting IPV interventions and referral behavior among KA clergy.

中文翻译：

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检查韩裔美国神职人员对亲密伴侣暴力的反应中的代际差异、社会文化变量和神职人员心理健康专业合作

目的

虽然亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV) 在过去几十年中得到了广泛的研究，但仍然需要调查针对 IPV 幸存者的文化特定方式。神职人员在韩裔美国人 (KA) 社区中作为 IPV 的受访者发挥着至关重要的作用，但需要进一步调查哪些变量会对神职人员对 IPV 幸存者的反应产生积极影响。因此，本研究试图检查文化适应、对亚洲价值观的坚持、代际地位和神职人员-心理健康专业合作对 KA 神职人员对其会众中 IPV 事件的反应的影响。

方法

通过雪球抽样招募了总共 84 名 KA 牧师，并完成了测量人口统计、对亚洲价值观的坚持、文化适应、世代地位和神职人员-心理健康专业合作水平的调查。使用 IBM SPSS 进行单向方差分析和分层回归分析。

结果

结果显示，IPV 干预和转诊行为存在显着的代际差异。此外，虽然文化适应能显着预测 IPV 干预，但神职人员-心理健康专业合作也能显着预测转诊行为和干预行为，即使在考虑了代际地位、文化适应和对亚洲价值观的坚持之后。

结论

这些研究结果表明，文化适应和神职人员心理健康专业合作是促进安全促进 IPV 干预和 KA 神职人员转诊行为的特别相关变量。