Asian Families at the Crossroads: A Meeting of East, West, Tradition, Modernity, and Gender

Ji, Yingchun

doi:10.1111/jomf.12223

Cited by 61 publications

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“…Future studies can consider validating the effects of couple identity in couples with more health service resources. Second, despite substantial evolutions in marriage and family (e.g., declined marriage rates, increased marriage age, low fertility rate, rising divorce rate) in Eastern Asian societies in the past few decades (Ji, 2015), marital values of the younger generations had remained relatively conventional (e.g., considering marriage as a must; Kim & Cheung, 2015;Yeung & Hu, 2016). It is possible that couple identity remains significant and still serves as a resource in younger generations of Eastern cultures, and future studies are warranted to replicate our findings.…”

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Couple identity and well-being in Chinese HIV serodiscordant couples: resilience under the risk of stigma

Huang

Zhang

2018

AIDS Care

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Resilience literature has suggested the context-specific nature of resilience while such framework has yet to be expanded to health psychology research among HIV serodiscordant couples. Conceptualizing a couple affected by chronic diseases using a "we-ness" framework rather than two separate individuals is important for stress coping of the couple. Considering this socialcognitive context of couple coping would be helpful to facilitate resilience of both the patient and the spouse. It is not clear whether couple identity serves as a protective factor for HIV serodiscordant couples and whether stigma, a prevalent contextual risk in this population, will alter the strength of such a protective effect on well-being. This longitudinal study examined the protective effect of couple identity in predicting the psychological and physical well-being of HIV discordant couples and the moderating role of stigma in such associations. A total of 160 Chinese HIV serodiscordant couples completed the baseline survey and follow-up one year later. Results showed that couple identity predicted fewer depressive symptoms at both the withinand between-couple level and better self-rated physical health at the between-couple level one year later. These protective effects were diminished when HIV stigma was high. This study highlights the importance of examining resources with consideration of contextual factors. It also calls for the sensitivity of stigma in developing a couple-based intervention for HIV serodiscordant couples. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Couple identity and well-being in Chinese HIV serodiscordant couples: resilience under the risk of stigma

Huang

Zhang

2018

AIDS Care

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“…The nexus between parental education and adult children's ATL is likely to reveal the gender and longitudinal heterogeneities. Gender heterogeneity is reinforced by the transforming gender ideologies in the market‐oriented society (Ji, ). As a response to the obscured gender difference in the prereform era, recent gender discourse is observed to restore a patriarchal gendered division of labor, where women are relegated back to domestic affairs (Sun & Chen, ; Tang, Ma, & Shi, ).…”

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Parental Education and College Students' Attitudes Toward Love: Survey Evidence From China

2019

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective: This study examines the correlation between parental education and college students' attitudes toward love (ATL) as well as its formative mechanisms. Background: Family formation in modern societies tightly involves people's ATL, but its correlation with family origin is still elusive. Method: Panel data from the random probability sample of the Beijing College Students Panel Survey were used to analyze a gradational measure of ATL. In total, 2,473 respondents were followed for 4 consecutive years. The population of interest is the college students in Beijing, China. The random-effect linear regression and mediation analyses were conducted. Results: Students with better-educated parents are more likely to embrace realistic rather than romantic ATL. The effect is stable across individuals of different genders and ages. Further analyses highlight the mediating effect of family income and objectified cultural capital. Conclusion: Due to economic and cultural advantages, parental education gives rise to adult children' likelihood of holding realistic ATL.

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“…Path analyses via Mplus 7.11 (Muth en & Muth en, 1998-2015 were used. Following recommendations by Maxwell et al (2011), we conducted temporally ordered prospective analyses using assessments of putative predictors, mediators, and outcomes across three waves of data collection.…”

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“…Importantly, our findings suggest that the VSA model, which was developed based on research conducted with Western couples, may serve as a useful theoretical framework explaining how personal characteristics and couple adaptive processes may combine to account for variations in marital well-being among Chinese couples. However, given that Chinese couples have been historically underrepresented in prior research, more efforts are needed to test the applicability of the other components and pathways in the VSA model to Chinese marriages, and further integrate Chinese cultural factors into this model to "indigenize" this classic theory and ultimately develop "local" theories that are particularly useful for understanding Chinese marriage (Ji, 2015).…”

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Neuroticism and Marital Satisfaction During the Early Years of Chinese Marriage: The Mediating Roles of Marital Attribution and Aggression

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On the basis of three annual waves of data obtained from 268 Chinese couples, we tested an actor-partner interdependence mediation model in which spouses' neuroticism was linked to their own and partners' marital satisfaction through both intrapersonal processes (i.e., marital attribution) and interpersonal processes (i.e., marital aggression). Considering intra- and interpersonal processes simultaneously, four indirect, mediating pathways were identified: Time 1 Wives' Neuroticism → Time 2 Wives' Attribution or Aggression, while controlling for Time 1 Wives' Attribution or Aggression → Time 3 Wives' or Husbands' Marital Satisfaction, while controlling for Time 1 Wives' or Husbands' Marital Satisfaction. This study not only adds to a limited body of research examining why neuroticism is associated with conjugal well-being, but also extends prior research by focusing on Chinese couples and utilizing a longitudinal, dyadic mediation model. Such findings have important practical implications. Couples involving neurotic partners may benefit from interventions based on cognitive-behavioral approaches. When working with couples challenged by neuroticism, practitioners need to help them address dysfunctional interactive patterns as well as distorted cognitive styles.

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Asian Families at the Crossroads: A Meeting of East, West, Tradition, Modernity, and Gender

Cited by 61 publications

References 32 publications

Couple identity and well-being in Chinese HIV serodiscordant couples: resilience under the risk of stigma

Couple identity and well-being in Chinese HIV serodiscordant couples: resilience under the risk of stigma

Parental Education and College Students' Attitudes Toward Love: Survey Evidence From China

Neuroticism and Marital Satisfaction During the Early Years of Chinese Marriage: The Mediating Roles of Marital Attribution and Aggression

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