TY - JOUR
T1 - Chinese dimensions of parenting
T2 - Broadening western predictors and outcomes
AU - Stewart, Sunita Mahtani
AU - Rao, Nirmala
AU - Bond, Michael H.
AU - McBride-Chang, Catherine
AU - Fielding, Richard
AU - Kennard, Betsy D.
PY - 1998/10
Y1 - 1998/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1080/002075998400231
DO - 10.1080/002075998400231
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032220773
SN - 0020-7594
VL - 33
SP - 345
EP - 358
JO - International Journal of Psychology
JF - International Journal of Psychology
IS - 5
ER -