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- Title
Chinese Dimensions of Parenting: Broadening Western Predictors and Outcomes.
- Authors
Bond, Michael H.; Mcbride-Chang, Catherine; Stewart, Sunita Mahtani; Rao, Nirmala; Fielding, Richard; Kennard, Betsy D.
- Abstract
This study examined perceived parental styles and psychosocial adjustment in 97 Hong Kong Chinese late adolescent girls, using culturally sensitive measures of parenting (warmth, restrictive control, and attributes related to the Chinese philosophy of guan or "training"), and of adjustment. Parenting characteristics associated with guan showed coherence, correlated significantly with parental warmth, and predicted well-being. Contrary to the suggestions of other investigators, restrictive control related negatively to self-esteem and well-being. Maternal control and paternal warmth emerged as important parent style variables in relating to adaptation, and exercized their effects on well-being partly through the mediating agency of self-esteem and relationship harmony. This preliminary study provides an empirical investigation of the impact exercized by a culturally specific dimension proposed for Chinese parenting, and highlights the importance of using culturally sensitive measures of adaptation. Cette etude examine les styles parentaux percus et l'adaptation psychosociale chez 97 adolescentes chinoises de Hong Kong, en utilisant des mesures culturellement sensibles a l'egard du parentage (chaleur, controle restrictif et attributs lies avec la philosophie chinoise du guan , ou "entrainement"). Les caracteristiques parentales liees au guan montrent de la coherence, etant correlee a la chaleur parentale et elles predisent le bien-etre. Contrairement a ce que suggerent d'autres chercheurs, le controle restrictif presente une relation negative avec l'estime de soi et le bien-etre. Le controle maternel et la chaleur paternelle apparaissent comme des variables importantes du style parental pour l'adaptation et ont des effets sur le bien-etre en partie par l'intermediaire de l'estime de soi et de l'harmonie des relations. Cette etude preliminaire fournit des donnees empiriques sur l'impact d'une dimension culturelle specifique du style parental chinois et met en valeur l'importance d'utiliser des mesures culturellement sensibles de l'adaptation.
- Subjects
HONG Kong (China); CHINA; PARENTING; TEENAGE girls; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation in adolescence
- Publication
International Journal of Psychology, 1998, Vol 33, Issue 5, p345
- ISSN
0020-7594
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/002075998400231