Physical Discipline and Children's Adjustment: Cultural Normativeness as a Moderator

Lansford, Jennifer E.; Chang, Lei; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Palmérus, Kerstin; Bacchini, Dario; Pastorelli, Concetta; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Zelli, Arnaldo; Tapanya, Sombat; Chaudhary, Nandita; Deater‐Deckard, Kirby; Manke, Beth; Quinn, Naomi

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00847.x

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“…Consistent with the cultural emphasis on parents' firm control and filial piety in traditional East Asian societies (Wu et al, 2002), researchers found that the cultural norms of parental authoritarian control are higher in East Asian than in Western cultures (Lansford et al, 2005). Indeed, comparative studies showed that native or immigrant Chinese parents endorsed higher authoritarian parenting and lower authoritative parenting than European American parents (e.g., Dornbusch, Ritter, Leiderman, Roberts, & Fraleigh, 1987;Wu et al, 2002).…”

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Parent–child cultural orientations and child adjustment in Chinese American immigrant families.

Chen¹,

Hua²,

Zhou³

et al. 2014

Developmental Psychology

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Direct and indirect/mediated relations of (a) children's and parents' cultural orientations and (b) parent-child gaps in cultural orientations to children's psychological adjustment were examined in a socioeconomically diverse sample of 258 Chinese American children (age ϭ 6 -9 years) from immigrant families. Parents reported on children's and their own Chinese and American orientations in language proficiency, media use, and social relationships. Parents and teachers rated children's externalizing and internalizing problems and social competence. Using structural equation modeling, we found evidence for both the effects of children's and parents' cultural orientations and the effects of parent-child gaps. Specifically, children's American orientations across domains were associated with their better adjustment (especially social competence). These associations were partly mediated by authoritative parenting. Parents' English and Chinese media use were both associated with higher authoritative parenting, which in turn was associated with children's better adjustment. Furthermore, greater gaps in parent-child Chinese proficiency were associated with children's poorer adjustment, and these relations were partly mediated by authoritative parenting. Together, the findings underscore the complex relations between immigrant families' dual orientations to the host and heritage cultures and children's psychological adjustment.

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Section: Parenting As a Mediator In The Relations Between Cultural Ormentioning

confidence: 77%

Parent–child cultural orientations and child adjustment in Chinese American immigrant families.

Chen¹,

Hua²,

Zhou³

et al. 2014

Developmental Psychology

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“…Cultural factors may also affect perceptions of a 'normally' functioning family, 'harsh' parenting and child behaviour. For instance, studies have shown that physical punishment is more accepted in some cultures than in others possibly leading to differences in the threshold to report harsh parenting [42].…”

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Mental Health and Health Risk Behaviors of Multicultural Adolescents according to Their Mothers’ Native Country: Using Data from the 11th (2015) Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey 2015

Ju¹,

Park²,

Lee³

2017

Child Health Nurs Res

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Background: Studies have shown that, compared to native counterparts, preschoolers from ethnic minorities are at an increased risk of problem behaviour. Socio-economic factors only partly explain this increased risk. This study aimed to further unravel the differences in problem behaviour among ethnic minority and native preschoolers by examining the mediating role of family functioning and parenting factors.

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“…Some questions have been raised regarding the cross-cultural generalizability of authoritative and authoritarian parenting and their implications for child adjustment. For example, in cultures where the perceived norms for authoritarian parenting (e.g., use of physical discipline) are higher (e.g., African American culture), authoritarian parenting was less strongly related to negative child adjustment than in the Euro-American culture (Deater-Deckard, Dodge, & Sorbring, 2005;Steinberg, 2001), although the overall negative relation of physical discipline to adjustment was evident in multiple cultures (Lansford et al, 2005). Chao (1994Chao ( ,2001 proposed that authoritative and authoritarian parenting may not fully capture the important features of Chinese parenting and that an indigenous construct such as "guan" or training should be considered.…”

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Relations of Parenting and Temperament to Chinese Children’s Experience of Negative Life Events, Coping Efficacy, and Externalizing Problems

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The relations of parenting and temperament (effortful control and anger/frustration) to children's externalizing problems were examined in a 3.8-year longitudinal study of 425 native Chinese children (6 -9 years) from Beijing. Children's experience of negative life events and coping efficacy were examined as mediators in the parenting and temperament-externalizing relations. Parents reported on their own parenting. Parents and teachers rated temperament. Children reported on negative life events and coping efficacy. Parents, teachers, children, or peers rated children's externalizing problems. Authoritative and authoritarian parenting and anger/frustration uniquely predicted externalizing problems. The relation between authoritarian parenting and externalizing was mediated by children's coping efficacy and negative school events. The results suggest there is some crosscultural universality in the developmental pathways for externalizing problems.The development of externalizing problems (i.e., aggression and rule-breaking/delinquent behaviors; Achenbach, 2001) has been related to both parenting and child temperament (Dodge, Coie, & Lynam, 2006). Due to the frequent covariation between parenting and temperament (Sanson & Rothbart, 1995), it is important to study their unique relations to externalizing problems. Moreover, relatively little is known regarding the processes underlying the relations of parenting and temperament to externalizing problems. We addressed these questions by examining the prospective and unique relations of authoritative and authoritarian parenting and temperamental effortful control and anger/frustration to school-age children's externalizing problems in urban China. We further tested whether children's experience of negative life events (NLEs) and coping efficacy (CE) partly mediated the parenting-and NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptChild Dev. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2009 October 15. Published in final edited form as:Child Dev. 2008 ; 79(3): 493-513. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01139.x. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript temperament-externalizing relations. This study provided a unique opportunity to examine the cross-cultural generalizability of developmental theories on externalizing problems. Unique Relations of Parenting and Temperament to Chinese Children's Externalizing Problems ParentingIn their coercive social learning theory, Patterson and colleagues (Patterson, 1982;Reid, Patterson, & Snyder, 2002) hypothesized that coercive and punitive parenting plays a key role in training children's externalizing behaviors. The coercive training process often begins with the parent's aversive intrusion into the child's activities (e.g., scolding or punishing the child for an undesirable behavior), followed by the child's negative reactions (e.g., yelling and complaining) and negative reinforcement of this aversive behavior by parental withdrawal of demands. The theory was supported by longitudinal studies revealing a positive r...

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Physical Discipline and Children's Adjustment: Cultural Normativeness as a Moderator

Cited by 494 publications

References 52 publications

Parent–child cultural orientations and child adjustment in Chinese American immigrant families.

Parent–child cultural orientations and child adjustment in Chinese American immigrant families.

Mental Health and Health Risk Behaviors of Multicultural Adolescents according to Their Mothers’ Native Country: Using Data from the 11th (2015) Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey 2015

Relations of Parenting and Temperament to Chinese Children’s Experience of Negative Life Events, Coping Efficacy, and Externalizing Problems

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