Relationships Between Adults and Parents in Asia

Kim, Kyungmin; Cheng, Yen Pi; Zarit, Steven H.; Fingerman, Karen L.

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9331-5_7

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“…Asian young adults may believe that it is not appropriate to upset other people by asking for support (Kim, Sherman, Ko, & Taylor, 2006; Taylor et al, 2004). Moreover, as mentioned previously, Asian students may view it as their duty to support their parents (rather than the reverse; Kim et al, in press). Thus, students in Asian countries may evaluate parental support less favorably than students in Western countries.…”

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“…In contrast, rules of filial piety in Asia dictate respect and provision of support to parents even in young adulthood, and grown children avoid asking parents for support (Kim et al, in press; Nelson, Badger, & Wu, 2004). There has been a loosening of filial piety values in Asia recently (Sung, 2004) and Asian students today may be less concerned with respect for older generations than their parents were.…”

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“…Asian adults view parent-child coresidence in adulthood as more desirable than do adults in the US or Germany (Kim et al, in press). In Hong Kong, housing is particularly expensive and unavailable, approximately half of college students reside with parents (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012).…”

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Parental Involvement With College Students in Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States

Fingerman

Cheng

Kim

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Journal of Family Issues

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Rates of college attendance have increased throughout the world. This study asked whether students across nations experience high involvement with parents (frequent contact and support) and how satisfied they are with parental involvement. College students from four major Western and Asian economies participated: Germany (n = 458), Hong Kong (n = 276), Korea (n = 257), and the United States (n = 310). Consistent with solidarity theory, students across nations reported frequent contact with parents and receiving several forms of social support (e.g., practical, emotional, and advice) every month. Multilevel models revealed Asian students received more frequent parental support than German or US students, but were less satisfied with that support. Students in Hong Kong resided with parents more often and gave more support to parents than students in other cultures. Discussion focuses on cultural (i.e., filial obligation) and structural (i.e., coresidence) factors explaining parental involvement.

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Parental Involvement With College Students in Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States

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Cheng

Kim

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“…Our findings that offspring's practical support and financial support were positively associated with parental satisfaction, respectively, are consistent with Chinese cultural emphasis on filial piety. Filial piety in Confucian culture represents "a life-long responsibility" for offspring to demonstrate their dedication and efforts to their parents' wellbeing by making parents free from worry (Kim, Cheng, Fringeman et al, 2015). In contrast, filial obligation required in Western cultures is primarily need-driven as older parents expect adult children to step in to help only when they are "at times of need" (Gans and Silverstein, 2006).…”

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Correlates of parental satisfaction: a study of late life family relationships in a rural county in China

Yang¹,

Wen²

2015

IJPS

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This study aims to identify correlates of satisfaction in late life parental role, using a sample of 432 older parents (not couples) aged 60 to 79 with 1,223 adult children living in one of the least developed counties of northern China. Drawing upon the symbolic interactionism perspective and Chinese cultural emphasis on filial piety, we tested a parental satisfaction model including a set of variables capturing parental perceptions of relationship quality with each of their grown children (hereafter offspring), expectations of various forms of support from offspring, and evaluations of offspring's filial piety (being filial). Most parents in our sample were satisfied with their parental role. Logistic regression analysis indicated that getting along with offspring, offspring met parental expectations in terms of providing emotional, practical, and financial support, and offspring being filial were significantly associated with parental satisfaction, respectively, net of parent and offspring characteristics. When simultaneously examined in the full model, however, only two correlates remained significant: getting along with offspring and offspring being filial. Offspring's filial piety was associated with parental satisfaction in a dose-response manner, indicating the importance of considering multiple children in a family on parental wellbeing. Findings underscore the significance of parental perceptions of relationship quality with offspring and offspring's filial piety for parental satisfaction. Findings suggest that filial piety, a multifaceted concept deeply rooted in Confucianism, continues to exert a strong influence today on Chinese family relationships despite the dramatic socioeconomic and cultural transformation China has been experiencing in the past three decades.

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“…Nevertheless, this is changing as fertility declines, and an ageing population alongside socioeconomic development threaten to bring about an erosion of the multigenerational family structure. Older adults may no longer be seen as deserving of respect and authority simply due to their age (Cheng et al, 2015b;Kim et al, 2015;Lin, 2015;Löckenhoff et al, 2009;Rittirong, 2014;WHO, 2015). Given the increase of the older population in e.g.…”

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Teaching gerontology in globalized academics: a qualitative study of Thai nursing students’ views on ageing when studying abroad

Mattsson

Rosendahl

2016

Contemporary Nurse

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Relationships Between Adults and Parents in Asia

Cited by 38 publications

References 97 publications

Parental Involvement With College Students in Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States

Parental Involvement With College Students in Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States

Correlates of parental satisfaction: a study of late life family relationships in a rural county in China

Teaching gerontology in globalized academics: a qualitative study of Thai nursing students’ views on ageing when studying abroad

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