Bystander attitudes toward parents? The perceived meaning of filial piety among Koreans in Australia, New Zealand and Korea

Abstract

The results show that the tension between the social and economic aspects of filial piety often creates a 'bystander' attitude toward parents and provides fertile ground for the seeds of family conflict.

Filial Piety and Academic Motivation: High-Achieving Students in an International School in South Korea

“…The accounts in this study help explain why it is difficult to pin down the extent that filial piety serves as an academic motivator because of the complex human factors that reductionist studies cannot adequately account for. This is especially the case for this study's sample where traditional collectivist values are being eroded in an age of globalization and migration (see also Park & Kim, 2015).…”

“…In Park and Kim's (2015) comparative study of Koreans in different geographical settings, filial piety norms of family care and support, along with respect for parents, were found to remain as the intergenerational norm for Koreans. However, they found that filial piety's practices erode with major sociocultural and economic changes, such as migration.…”

Lessons from 'memorial piety': Capitalising on the connectedness between living and past generations and its implications for social work practice

“…These two aspects of filial principles are interrelated and are interwoven but, at the same time, meaningfully distinctive from each other relative to their roles and functions in different individuals and families. The discussion on the findings concerning filial piety between living generations has been discussed elsewhere (Park & Kim, 2016), and thus, this article focuses on presenting the practice of ancestor worship and anything related to it across living and past generations. For this focus, four themes on ancestral engagement are significantly evident: (1) moving from ancestor worship to memorial piety; (2) memorial practices practised by descendants; (3) scepticism on current memorial practices; and (4) a need to support future ancestors.…”

“…Regardless of these transforming circumstances, arguably the core principle of filial piety (including ancestor respect) remains in the public consciousness, and its impacts on people's daily lives are still meaningful in contemporary Korean society (Park & Kim, 2016;Sung, 2007). Notably, now Korean Christianity has chosen to promote filial piety as an indigenous way of achieving harmony between young and old, and gradually has accepted the practice of memorial service for ancestors (Park & Mu¨ller, 2014).…”