Importance of social connectedness as a moderator in Korean immigrants' subjective well-being.

Subjective well-being theories of goal approach and value-as-a-moderator were applied to examine the role of importance of social connectedness on the relationship between social connectedness and subjective well-being in a community sample of 204 Korean immigrants. It was hypothesized that social connectedness in ethnic and mainstream society is a stronger predictor of well-being to immigrants who highly value/desire it than to those who do not. The results from hierarchical multiple regression analyses provided partial support for the hypotheses. For immigrants who highly valued con-nectedness in the ethnic community, positive affect increased with greater connected-ness in the ethnic community, whereas, for immigrants who did not value it, connect-edness in the ethnic community was not associated with positive affect. Implications for theory, research, and practice were discussed.