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- Title
Shared Agency with Parents for Educational Goals: Ethnic Differences and Implications for College Adjustment.
- Authors
Chang, Esther S.; Heckhausen, Jutta; Greenberger, Ellen; Chuansheng Chen
- Abstract
This study proposed and confirmed three ways in which college students can perceive shared agency and two ways in which they can perceive non-shared agency with parents when pursuing educational goals in college. Differences and similarities were examined among participants from four ethnic backgrounds ( N = 515; 67% female): East Asian American, Southeast Asian American, Filipino/Pacific Islander American, and European American. Results indicated that Asian American youth reported higher levels of non-shared agency with parents (i.e., parental directing and noninvolvement), lower levels of shared agency (i.e., parental accommodation, support, or collaboration), and poorer college adjustment compared to European Americans. However, ethnic similarities were found whereby perceived shared agency in education with parents was associated with college adjustment. Multiple mediation analyses also indicated that our model of shared and non-shared agency with parents explained differences in college adjustment between Asian and European Americans, though more strongly for comparisons between European and East Asian Americans. Our results suggest that parents continue to be important in the education of older youth but that continued directing of youth’s education in college can be maladaptive.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PARENT participation in higher education; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation in adolescence; COLLEGE students; ASIAN American students; EUROPEAN Americans; FILIPINO Americans; PACIFIC Islander American students; MEDIATION (Statistics)
- Publication
Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 2010, Vol 39, Issue 11, p1293
- ISSN
0047-2891
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10964-009-9488-7