TY - JOUR PY - 2000// TI - Model Minority Demystified -- Emotional Costs of Multiple Victimizations in the Lives of Women of Japanese Descent JO - Journal of human behavior in the social environment A1 - Yoshihama, Mieko SP - 201 EP - 201 VL - 3 IS - 3 N2 - This population-based study investigated the prevalence of domestic violence and other types of interpersonal victimization among a random sample of women of Japanese descent (immigrants from Japan and Japanese Americans) in Los Angeles. This study found a high prevalence of domestic violence, as well as other types of violence, perpetrated by non-intimates. Differences by country of birth were found in some, but not all, types of victimization; a larger proportion of Japan-born respondents reported experiencing contact and no-contact sexual violence perpetrated by non-intimates and witnessing their fathers' violence against their mothers. The severity of domestic violence experienced during the respondents' lifetimes was significantly associated with a higher degree of psychological distress. Findings question the commonly presumed image of the model minority and call for increased efforts to assess the history of domestic violence and other types of interpersonal victimization when working with women of Japanese descent.

LA - SN - 1091-1359 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J137v03n03_13 ID - ref1 ER -