South Korean mothers’ beliefs regarding aggression and social withdrawal in preschoolers

Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Park, Sung-Yun

doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2006.01.004

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“…However, scholars have recently pointed out that contemporary South Korean culture has features that are distinguished from traditional Confucian-based collectivist cultures. For example, the ideology of own-family-centered familism prevails (Cheah and Park 2006), while the interests and obligations for distant kin, the community or the whole society are increasingly considered less important (Cho and Shin 1996). Empirical studies have also indicated that autonomy, competence, and self-esteem are considered as key determinants of satisfying experiences for South Koreans (Hahn and Oishi 2006;Sheldon et al 2001).…”

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Individualism, collectivism, and client expression of different emotions: their relations to perceived counselor effectiveness

Seo

2010

Asia Pacific Educ. Rev.

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This study examined how individualism, collectivism, and counselor emphasis of different client emotions were related to perceived counselor effectiveness. Data were collected from 192 (122 women and 70 men) Korean students attending a large university in South Korea and from 170 (115 women and 55 men) American students attending a large Midwestern university in the United States. Participants read a counseling script in which a counselor emphasized client expression of either egofocused emotions (e.g., anger) or other-focused emotions (e.g., guilt). Results from a hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that South Korean students who were more individualistic showed more positive perceptions of counselor effectiveness when the counselor emphasized the expression of the client's ego-focused emotions, whereas more individualistic American students perceived the counselor as less effective when the counselor emphasized the expression of the client's other-focused emotions. Also, the results demonstrated that participants who were high collectivist and low individualistic showed more positive perceptions of counselor effectiveness when the counselor emphasized the expression of the client's other-focused emotions, when compared to those who were high collectivist and high individualistic. Implications for counseling practice and future studies are discussed.

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Individualism, collectivism, and client expression of different emotions: their relations to perceived counselor effectiveness

Seo

2010

Asia Pacific Educ. Rev.

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“…Given the diversity among Asian Americans of different cultural origins (Leong et al 2007), we focused on families from East Asian cultures, specifically, Koreans and Chinese, who have a shared Confucian heritage. In spite of different social, economic, and political structures between Korean and Chinese societies (Cheah and Park 2006), the core Confucian values of interrelatedness and self-perfection are highly prized in both cultures (Kim and Park 2006;Pye 2000;Tu 1985).…”

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Father, Mother and Me: Parental Value Orientations and Child Self-identity in Asian American Immigrants

2008

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Relations between Asian American parental value orientations and children's self-identity in the domains of achievement and relationship were examined. Sixty-nine Asian American youths (15 males) of East Asian origin (51 Chinese, 18 Koreans) interviewed their parents (30 fathers) for their life stories as first-generation Asian Americans. They also told their life stories as secondgeneration Asian Americans. Fathers and mothers upheld Confucian values, which were associated with children's autonomous sense of self in achievement domain and relational sense of self in relationship domain. Furthermore, fathers and mothers had differential influences on children's self-identity, and sons and daughters responded differently to parental value socializations. Findings are discussed with respect to parent-child relationships and continuity of ethnic values in contemporary Asian American families.

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“…Western mothers endorsed more reactive than proactive behavior compared to Asian mothers; South Korean mothers chose equal numbers of proactive and reactive responses, but more proactive responses than German and US mothers. Korean mothers' response patterns may reflect intuitive theories that incorporate both traditional and newly westernized values (Cheah & Park, 2006). Asian mothers' preference for proactive anticipation of children's needs may reflect a sense of responsibility to care for the young dependent child whereas Western mothers' preference to be reactive may reflect the goal of fostering children's autonomy and conceiving of children as needing to learn to communicate needs (Trommsdorff & Kornadt, 2003;Trommsdorff & Rothbaum, 2008).…”

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Cultural Variations in Mothers' Intuitive Theories: A Preliminary Report on Interviewing Mothers from Five Nations about Their Socialization of Children's Emotions

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Heikamp

2012

Global Studies of Childhood

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Parental intuitive theories comprise values, goals, expectations, and cultural beliefs about the nature of parenting and its function for children's development of competence. This article introduces a research design to study mothers' intuitive theories about their socialization of children's emotions, as a means of understanding the cultural meaning of children's emotional development. The intention is not to present a traditional empirical report, but to provide a heuristic for future research. The authors illustrate the basic assumptions, methods, and approach to data analysis used in the research design, using a five-nation cross-cultural study as an example of this methodology. For purposes of illustration, examples of mothers' responses during interviews are included, about their intuitive theories of emotion socialization -that is, their attributions about child behavior, views about their parenting roles and socialization practices, and the salience of particular emotions relative to cultural models of independence and interdependence. This approach provides a more sophisticated sense of cultural similarities and variations within and between nations than has been available in prior research. The importance of parents' intuitive theories for the investigation of the cultural meaning of emotion socialization and future study directions are discussed.Intuitive 'theories' refer to implicit beliefs and assumptions about causal explanatory relations. 'They organize experience, generate inferences, guide learning, and influence behavior and social interactions ' (Gelman & Legare, 2011, p. 380). Though they are tacit and imprecise, they nonetheless influence behavior. We apply the concept of intuitive theories for a better understanding of parental socialization of children's emotions. We assume that one way that emotion socialization occurs in daily life is through parents' and other caregivers' practices, and that these practices are guided by their intuitive theories about child emotional competence, how different emotions are valued, and how they should be managed and expressed. We suggest that an intuitive theory approach can inform theories of emotional development, which have widely ignored the cultural variations in how children's emotions are socialized (Halberstadt & Lozada, 2011).Emotions are socialized in many contexts but in a child's early life parents are particularly important agents (Morris et al, 2007). From their birth, children are exposed to and slowly acquire culture-specific display rules for emotional expression, i.e. norms about when and where the expression of a specific emotion is socially accepted, through observational learning and modeling (Saarni et al, 2006). Moreover, in their dyadic interactions with their caregivers, children learn strategies to regulate emotions. In Western cultures, supportive parenting behaviors (e.g. expressive encouragement, problem-focused reactions) are associated with children's skills at regulating negative emotions (Davidov & Grusec, 2006) ...

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South Korean mothers’ beliefs regarding aggression and social withdrawal in preschoolers

Cited by 39 publications

References 40 publications

Individualism, collectivism, and client expression of different emotions: their relations to perceived counselor effectiveness

Individualism, collectivism, and client expression of different emotions: their relations to perceived counselor effectiveness

Father, Mother and Me: Parental Value Orientations and Child Self-identity in Asian American Immigrants

Cultural Variations in Mothers' Intuitive Theories: A Preliminary Report on Interviewing Mothers from Five Nations about Their Socialization of Children's Emotions

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