Adolescent-Parent Conflict among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

Yau, Jenny; Smetana, Judith G.

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“…We concur with Yau & Smetana [24], Özmete & Bayoğlu [25] and Montemayor [26] that adolescent-parent conflict is multifaceted and comprises personal and family issues. Personal issues like dress and peer influences were strong predictors of mother-daughter conflict.…”

Section: The Complexity Of Conflictsupporting

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Mother-Daughter Conflict among 18 - 21 Years Old Adolescents: Structure, Causes and Management

Berkeley

Thomas-Mason²

2015

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Section: The Complexity Of Conflictsupporting

confidence: 87%

Mother-Daughter Conflict among 18 - 21 Years Old Adolescents: Structure, Causes and Management

Berkeley

Thomas-Mason²

2015

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“…Although fighting is not a central feature of normative family relationships in adolescence, however, nattering or bickering is. Smetana (1995) and colleagues (Smetana & Asquith, 1994;Smetana, Crean, & Daddis, 2002;Yau & Smetana, 1996) have argued that much parent-adolescent conflict results from changes in the adolescent's reasoning about the legitimacy of parental authority. Parents and adolescents often squabble over matters that are defined by parents as moral or prudential issues but by adolescents as questions of personal choice and, accordingly, as less appropriate for parental regulation.…”

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“…The studies generally have found that authoritative parenting is less prevalent among African American, Asian American, or Hispanic American families than among White families, no doubt reflecting the fact that parenting practices are often linked to cultural values and beliefs (Dornbusch et al, 1987;Smetana & Chuang, 2001;Yau & Smetana, 1996). Nevertheless, even though authoritative parenting is less common in ethnic minority families, its links to adolescent adjustment appear to be positive in all ethnic groups (Amato & Fowler, 2002;Knight, Virdin, & Roosa, 1994;Mason, Cauce, Gonzales, & Hiraga, 1996;Walker-Barnes & Mason, 2001).…”

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“…Second, the distinction between authoritative versus authoritarian parenting may not always make sense when applied to parents from other cultures (Chao, 1994(Chao, , 2001. For example, non-White parents frequently combine a very high degree of strictness (similar to White authoritarian parents) with warmth (similar to White authoritative parents; Formoso, Ruiz, & Gonzales, 1997;Rohner & Pettengill, 1985;Smetana & Gaines, 1999;Yau & Smetana, 1996). If researchers accustomed to studying White families focus too much on parents' strictness when observing family relationships, they may mislabel other ethnic groups' approaches to child rearing-which appear very controlling, but which are neither aloof nor hostile-as authoritarian when they are not .…”

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Adolescent Development in Interpersonal Context

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Steinberg

2007

Handbook of Child Psychology

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“…Others (e.g. Lin & Fu, 1990;Yau & Smetana, 1996) include or emphasize rejecting and critical behaviours. The items chosen in this study to re ect control were those that consist of dominating and critical attitudes.…”

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Does the Chinese construct of guan export to the West?

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This study reverses the usual process of assessing universality by examining whether a construct originating in non-western cultures has functional relevance in the West. The construct of guan or "training" was proposed by Chao (1994) as re ecting important Chinese parenting practices also shared by other Confucian cultures. She proposed that this construct is more relevant to the understanding of outcomes among Asian-American youth than constructs that have been developed in the West, such as "authoritative" parenting. The association among the behaviours incorporated in this construct and other "universal" parenting styles such as parental warmth has not been previously reported. Nor has there been a previous report of the prevalence and perceived desirability of guan behaviours from Western individuals. Participants in the present study were US (N = 118), Hong Kong (N = 171) and Pakistani (N = 98) nursing students. In all three cultures, guan items had adequate internal consistency (Cronbach's alphas ranging from .69 to .76), associated positively with parental warmth (Pearsons' r ranging from .37 to .52), and were seen as attributes of ideal parents. Mothers in all three cultures were perceived as showing more guan than fathers show. The associations between parental guan and the outcomes of perceived health, relationship harmony and life satisfaction were signi cant for the Asian participants. Tests of guan's functional relevance in the West had equivocal results with weak associations to positive outcomes in the West compared to Asia. However, the differences between cultures did not reach statistical signi cance. When the cultures were merged, parental training perceptions predicted a signi cant proportion of the variance in outcomes. Mothers' guan predicted self-esteem in their children, whereas fathers' guan predicted life satisfaction. Although guan may have emerged from a Chinese cultural context, it appears to function similarly in many cultural systems, and may represent the Asian face of authoritative parenting.Cette étude renverse le processus habituel d'évaluation de l'universalité en examinant si un construit issu des cultures non occidentales possède une pertinence fonctionnelle en Occident. La structure de guan ou "entraînement" a été proposé par Chao (1994) a n de montrer des pratiques parentales chinoises importantes partagées également par d'autres cultures d'adeptes de Confucius. Elle a suggéré que ce construit était plus pertinent pour la compréhension des effets de l'éducation sur la jeunesse asiatico-américaine que d'autres construits développés en Occident, tel que l'autoritarisme parental. Il n'existe aucun rapport précédant sur l'association entre les comportements incorporés à ce construit et d'autres styles parentaux "universels", comme la chaleur parentale. Il n'y a pas non plus d'autre rapport sur la prévalence et la désirabilité perçue des comportements guan de la part d'individus occidentaux. Les participants à cette étude étaient des élèves in rmiers des USA (N = 118), de Hong ...

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Adolescent-Parent Conflict among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

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Mother-Daughter Conflict among 18 - 21 Years Old Adolescents: Structure, Causes and Management

Mother-Daughter Conflict among 18 - 21 Years Old Adolescents: Structure, Causes and Management

Adolescent Development in Interpersonal Context

Does the Chinese construct of guan export to the West?

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