Download or read book Heterogeneity in Asian Immigrant Mothers Socialization Goals and Relations with Preschoolers Social emotional School Readiness in the U S written by Xiaofang Xue and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maternal socialization goals can significantly impact preschoolers' socioemotional school readiness, which is essential for their future academic achievement and adjustment in formal schooling. Asian immigrant mothers in the U.S. may endorse both interdependence-oriented goals stemming from their heritage Asian cultures, and independence-oriented socialization goals that are consistent with the host American culture. This study aimed to investigate how independence- and interdependence-oriented goals coexist through the identification of underlying classes of Asian immigrant mothers. Potential differences in their children' socioemotional school readiness (prosocial behaviors, sociability, and on-task behaviors) across the different classes of mothers were also examined. The sample consisted of 193 Chinese and Korean immigrant mothers and their preschool-aged children. Mothers were interviewed regarding their socialization goals and teachers rated the preschoolers' socioemotional school readiness. Latent class analyses revealed two underlying classes. The majority of Asian immigrant mothers (86%) highly emphasized independence-oriented and moderately endorsed interdependence-oriented goals (class 1), whereas 14% mothers highly emphasized interdependence-oriented goals, but endorsed independence-oriented goals at low levels (class 2). Moreover, children of mothers in class 1 were rated by their teachers as being more sociable and on-task, compared to children with mothers in class 2. This study provided evidence for the heterogeneity in Asian immigrant mothers' socialization goals and can inform the development of cultural-specific parenting programs aiming to facilitate Asian immigrant preschoolers' socioemotional school readiness.
Download or read book Parental Roles and Relationships in Immigrant Families written by Susan S. Chuang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful volume presents important new findings about parenting and parent-child relationships in ethnic and racial minority immigrant families. Prominent scholars in diverse fields focus on families from a wide range of ethnicities settling in Canada, China, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. Each chapter discusses parenting and parent-child relationships in a broader cultural context, presenting within-group and cross-cultural data that provide readers with a rich understanding of parental values, beliefs, and practices that influence children’s developmental outcomes in a new country. For example, topics of investigation include cultural variation in the role of fathers, parenting of young children across cultures, the socialization of academic and emotional development, as well as the interrelationships among stress, acculturation processes, and parent-child relationship dynamics. This timely reference: • explores immigration and families from a global, multidisciplinary perspective; • focuses on immigrant children and youth in the family context;• challenges long-held assumptions about parenting and immigrant families;• bridges the knowledge gap between immigrant and non-immigrant family studies;• describes innovative methodologies for studying immigrant family relationships; and• establishes the relevance of these data to the wider family literature. Parental Roles and Relationships in Immigrant Families is not only useful to researchers and to family therapists and social workers attending to immigrant families, but also highly informative for persons interested in shaping immigration policy at the local, national, and global levels.
Download or read book Asian American Parenting written by Yoonsun Choi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important text offers data-rich guidelines for conducting culturally relevant and clinically effective intervention with Asian American families. Delving beneath longstanding generalizations and assumptions that have often hampered intervention with this diverse and growing population, expert contributors analyze the intricate dynamics of generational conflict and child development in Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and other Asian American households. Wide-angle coverage identifies critical factors shaping Asian American family process, from parenting styles, behaviors, and values to adjustment and autonomy issues across childhood and adolescence, including problems specific to girls and young women. Contributors also make extensive use of quantitative and qualitative findings in addressing the myriad paradoxes surrounding Asian identity, acculturation, and socialization in contemporary America. Among the featured topics: Rising challenges and opportunities of uncertain times for Asian American families. A critical race perspective on an empirical review of Asian American parental racial-ethnic socialization. Socioeconomic status and child/youth outcomes in Asian American families. Daily associations between adolescents’ race-related experiences and family processes. Understanding and addressing parent-adolescent conflict in Asian American families. Behind the disempowering parenting: expanding the framework to understand Asian-American women’s self-harm and suicidality. Asian American Parenting is vital reading for social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working family therapy cases who seek specific, practice-oriented case examples and resources for empowering interventions with Asian American parents and families.
Download or read book Social emotional Development and School Readiness of Chinese American Children written by Jing Yu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation was comprised of three thematically-related studies, with an overall aim to reconcile the inconsistent findings in the literature regarding the effects of controlling parenting on child development. The first paper confirmed that the love withdrawal dimension of psychologically controlling parenting could be clearly distinguished from the dimensions of guilt induction and shaming through conducting confirmatory factor analyses. The second paper then examined the dimensional effects of psychological control using longitudinal structural equation modeling. Results indicated that maternal love withdrawal predicted more withdrawn and aggressive behavior in children six months later, whereas maternal guilt induction predicted fewer problem behaviors over this period. The first two dissertation papers provided insights on some potential explanations for the inconsistent effects of parenting from the measurement perspective. The third dissertation paper further examined the processes underlying the pathways from parenting to child outcomes. Specifically, the mediating role of effortful control and moderating role of cultural orientations were examined. Two waves of longitudinal data were collected approximately six months apart on 154 families. Half-longitudinal mediation and moderation analyses showed that W1 child effortful control positively predicted W2 child social-emotional school readiness even after controlling for construct stability. However, W1 parenting practices did not significantly predict W2 child effortful control after controlling for temporal stability, which led to nonsignificant mediation effects. For the direct effects of parenting practices, the use of physical coercion predicted less overall child school readiness (less on-task behavior and more externalizing behavior) six months later, only for mothers who were highly acculturated towards the American culture. In addition, maternal physical coercion predicted more child internalizing behavior whereas maternal guilt induction predicted less child internalizing behavior over time. No child effects were found except that W1 child effortful control predicted less W2 maternal guilt induction, indicating that these Chinese immigrant mothers used more guilt induction when their children lacked internal control and needed the external control to regulate their behavior. Overall, these findings may inform educators and practitioners to be more attuned to the myriad of factors that can influence parenting practices and child adjustment. Moreover, these results highlighted the need to be cognizant of the value of indigenous Chinese parenting and Chinese immigrant mothers' acculturation in shaping their use of controlling parenting and the effects of such practices on their children's outcomes in the American cultural context.
Download or read book Asian American Parenting and Parent Adolescent Relationships written by Stephen T. Russell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationships between children and their parents are the building blocks for f- ily relationships throughout life. The nature of the parent-child relationship begins with parenting—the practices and strategies that parents engage in as they raise their children. Parenting during childhood sets the stage for parent-adolescent relati- ships. These relationships make a critical difference during the teenage years: we know that when parent-adolescent relationships are healthy and strong, adolescents are more likely to have high aspirations and achievement, and to make healthier choices when it comes to risk-taking. Most of the research in this ?eld has been based in the United States and has been conducted through studies of European American families. Yet a growing body of research suggests important ethnic differences in styles of parenting and the qua- ties characterizing the parent-adolescent relationship. In this area of research, most existing studies have examined ethnic and cultural group differences using widely accepted measures and concepts of parenting. Comparative studies assume that dimensions of parenting such as parental warmth or control have the same meaning across cultures; however, given that conceptualizations of adolescent-parent re- tionships have been developed and tested on samples comprised largely of European Americans, we cannot rule out the possibility that the way we understand parenting has been shaped by the predominantly Western- and U. S. -focused research in this ?eld.
Download or read book Socialization of the Extended Self in Cultural Contexts and Relations to Children s Socio emotional Outcomes written by Bee Kim Koh and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examined the socialization of the extended self in cultural contexts and the relations to children's socio-emotional outcomes. Three studies involving European-American, Chinese immigrant and Chinese preschool children and their parents were conducted. Study 1 investigated memory-sharing in a natural context, i.e., during dinnertime in European-American and Chinese immigrant families. Chinese immigrant families engaged in lengthier dinner conversations than did European-American families. During memory-sharing, Chinese immigrant parents focused not only on children's social relations, daily interactions with others, up-played their transgressions, and emphasized proper conducts, but also their personal thoughts and feelings. Conversely, European-American parents highlighted children's actions, downplayed their transgressions, and focused on their personal thoughts and feelings. Study 2 examined mother-child talk about future following memory-sharing, which connects the self from the past to the future. Chinese immigrant and Chinese mothers were more likely to talk about the future following memory-sharing than European-American mothers. Following past negative events, Chinese immigrant and Chinese mothers and children tended to engage in didactic talk that emphasized children's proper conduct in future, whereas European-American mothers and children tended to engage in autonomous talk that focused on children's opinions and preferences regarding the future. Study 3 studied mother-child reminiscing of emotionally negative events and the long-term relations to children's socio-emotional outcomes. Both European-American and Chinese immigrant mothers and children who focused on the child's emotional states, explained the causes for the child's emotions and provided ways to resolve the negative emotions had children who showed better socio-emotional outcomes across time. Nonetheless, Chinese immigrant mothers and children who engaged in didactic talk had children who showed better emotional outcomes across time, but European-American mothers and children who engaged in didactic talk had children who showed worse emotional outcomes across time. The collective findings suggest that parents of different cultures socialize their children to develop an extended self and cope with emotionally negative experiences in ways that are congruent with the respective cultural value systems, which are associated with positive socio-emotional outcomes in children. Situated in the broader comparative context, this dissertation extended current understanding on cultural diversity in human cognition and psychological health.
Download or read book Mothers Without Citizenship written by Lynn Fujiwara and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1996 President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act that fulfilled his campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it," and one month later the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act passed, deepening restrictions on immigrant and welfare provisions. These acts harshly and disproportionately affected Asian immigrants who continue to experience the legacy of this legislation today. Lynn Fujiwara reveals a neglected aspect of the Asian immigrant story: the ill effects of welfare reform on Asian immigrant women and families. Mothers without Citizenship intertwines the issues of social and legal citizenship, arguing that these draconian measures redefined immigrants as outsiders whose lack of citizenship was used to deem them ineligible for public benefits. Fujiwara shows how these people are both a vulnerable, invisible group and active agents of change. At once astute policy analysis and insightful research, Mothers without Citizenship is a significant contribution to this country's immigration controversy, offering much-needed nuance to the discussion of the consequences of social policy on Asian immigrant communities and complicating debates solely focused around the politics of the border. Lynn Fujiwara is assistant professor in the Program of Women's and Gender Studies and the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon.
Download or read book Socialization and Socioemotional Development in Chinese Children written by Xinyin Chen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's early temperamental characteristics have a pervasive impact on the development of socioemotional functioning. Through socialization and social interaction processes, cultural beliefs and values play a role in shaping the meanings of socioemotional characteristics and in determining their developmental patterns and outcomes. This Element focuses on socialization and socioemotional development in Chinese children. The Element first briefly describes Chinese cultural background for child development, followed by a discussion of socialization cognitions and practices. Then, it discusses socioemotional characteristics in the early years of life, including temperamental reactivity and self-control, mainly in terms of their cultural meanings and developmental significance. Next, the Element reviews research on Chinese children's and adolescents' social behaviors, including prosocial behavior, aggression, and shyness. Given the massive social changes that have been occurring in China, their implications for socialization and socioemotional development are discussed in these sections. The Element concludes with suggestions for future research directions.
Download or read book Maternal Emotion Socialization and Young Children s Socioemotional Development from a Cultural Perspective written by Hiu Ming Chan and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children in diverse cultures are socialized to understand, express, and regulate their emotions in ways that are considered adaptive in their culture. In early childhood, parents play an important role to teach children about the feeling rules and display rules of emotions in their culture. Parents’ emotion socialization is guided by their goals and beliefs about emotions, which are likely to vary based on the culturally specific value and norm in diverse culture. However, much of the research in the field of emotion socialization was still primarily based on European American families. Research in other cultural groups, including Chinese culture, is key to unpack the role of culture in emotion socialization. The current dissertation attempts to shed light on similarities and differences of maternal emotion socialization and its relations with children’s emotional competence both across and within culture. The first chapter provides a general introduction to the current state of literature in the role of parents and culture in emotion socialization and details how the current dissertation will contribute to the field. Chapter 2, 3, and 4 detailed three studies that used data from the same larger cross-cultural study that involved European American mothers from Columbus, Ohio in the United States and Chinese mothers living in Hong Kong and Beijing. The first study was a mixed-methods study that examined the quantitative differences in emotion socialization goals, beliefs, and practices of mothers across the three cultural groups. Importantly, qualitative findings were provided to help explain and contextualize our quantitative findings. Results indicated that Chinese mothers had different emotion socialization beliefs and goals and responded to children’s negative emotions differently when compared to European American mothers. Within-cultural differences between Hong Kong and Beijing mothers were also discussed. The third chapter presents a qualitative study that examined themes emerged from semi-structured interviews that assess mothers’ meta-emotion philosophy from the three cultural groups. Data of ten mothers from each cultural group were drawn for more in-depth analysis. Findings from thematic analysis revealed new dimensions of meta-emotion philosophy and other important themes that shed light onto why and how mothers across cultures differ in their beliefs and practices in emotion socialization. This qualitative study supported that parents’ meta-emotion philosophy was grounded in their cultural context and that the framework of meta-emotion philosophy has to be expanded to consider other cultural models and values. The study presented in chapter 4 conducted a series of hierarchical multiple regression analyses to test the associations between maternal acceptance of children’s negative emotions, supportive and training responses to children’s negative emotions, and children’s emotional competence (emotion understanding, regulation, and problem behaviors) and whether culture moderated these associations. Results indicated that culture significantly moderated the effect of maternal training responses on children’s emotional competence and revealed differences across and within culture. The last chapter provides an overall discussion of all the findings in the current dissertation.
Download or read book Saving Face written by Angie Y. Chung and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiger Mom. Asian patriarchy. Model minority children. Generation gap. The many images used to describe the prototypical Asian family have given rise to two versions of the Asian immigrant family myth. The first celebrates Asian families for upholding the traditional heteronormative ideal of the “normal (white) American family” based on a hard-working male breadwinner and a devoted wife and mother who raises obedient children. The other demonizes Asian families around these very same cultural values by highlighting the dangers of excessive parenting, oppressive hierarchies, and emotionless pragmatism in Asian cultures. Saving Face cuts through these myths, offering a more nuanced portrait of Asian immigrant families in a changing world as recalled by the people who lived them first-hand: the grown children of Chinese and Korean immigrants. Drawing on extensive interviews, sociologist Angie Y. Chung examines how these second-generation children negotiate the complex and conflicted feelings they have toward their family responsibilities and upbringing. Although they know little about their parents’ lives, she reveals how Korean and Chinese Americans assemble fragments of their childhood memories, kinship narratives, and racial myths to make sense of their family experiences. However, Chung also finds that these adaptive strategies come at a considerable social and psychological cost and do less to reconcile the social stresses that minority immigrant families endure today. Saving Face not only gives readers a new appreciation for the often painful generation gap between immigrants and their children, it also reveals the love, empathy, and communication strategies families use to help bridge those rifts.
Download or read book Early Childhood and the Asian American Experience written by Sohyun "Soh" Meacham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential and urgent book presents research-based understandings about Asian American early childhood, bringing to light the battle Asian Americans face against American nativism from their early years’ experiences. The first of its kind in academic literature, the book addresses the well-known issue of underrepresentation of Asian Americans in early childhood education research and practice, and in American society in general. Using the intersectionality and multiple identities perspectives, the authors explore a myriad of inaccurate cultural perceptions and misrepresentations, centering within-group differences among Asian American children and giving particular attention to disempowered groups among them. Issues related to socioeconomic status, gender, dis/abilities, linguistic backgrounds, and minority groups among Asian American populations are addressed, with implications for researchers and educators as well as context for examining the policies that cause inequities among Asian American children. This book is key reading for early childhood education researchers, professors, and graduate students to become more productively engaged in discussions and practices toward racial justice.
Download or read book Transition and Change in Collectivist Family Life written by Karen Mui-Teng Quek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research-to-practice volume grounds clinicians in a robust, culturally-informed framework for conducting effective therapy with Asian-American couples, families, and individuals. Family, cultural, social, and spiritual dynamics are explored across ethnicities, generations, relationships, and immigrant/citizen experience to reflect a diverse, growing population. Discussion and case examples focus on contrasts, conflicts, and balances involved in acculturation and change, notably the shift from collectivist cultural tradition to a more independent view of the self, gender, choices, and relationships. The contributors’ finely shaded guidance and accessible approach will help therapists provide appropriate services for Asian-American clients without minimizing or pathologizing their experiences. Included in the coverage: How Asian American couples negotiate relational harmony: collectivism and gender equality. Through religion: working-class Korean immigrant women negotiate patriarchy. The role of Chinese grandparents in their adult children’s parenting practices in the United States. Balancing the old and the new: the case of second generation Filipino American women. Bicultural identity as a protective factor among Southeast Asian American youth who have witnessed domestic violence. Transition and Change in Collectivist Family Life is a cogent clinical resource for practitioners and mental health professionals with interests in Asian-American family therapy, psychotherapy, collectivism, and faith-based community and counseling.
Download or read book Asian American Parenting and Parent Adolescent Relationships written by Stephen T Russell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationships between children and their parents are the building blocks for f- ily relationships throughout life. The nature of the parent-child relationship begins with parenting—the practices and strategies that parents engage in as they raise their children. Parenting during childhood sets the stage for parent-adolescent relati- ships. These relationships make a critical difference during the teenage years: we know that when parent-adolescent relationships are healthy and strong, adolescents are more likely to have high aspirations and achievement, and to make healthier choices when it comes to risk-taking. Most of the research in this ?eld has been based in the United States and has been conducted through studies of European American families. Yet a growing body of research suggests important ethnic differences in styles of parenting and the qua- ties characterizing the parent-adolescent relationship. In this area of research, most existing studies have examined ethnic and cultural group differences using widely accepted measures and concepts of parenting. Comparative studies assume that dimensions of parenting such as parental warmth or control have the same meaning across cultures; however, given that conceptualizations of adolescent-parent re- tionships have been developed and tested on samples comprised largely of European Americans, we cannot rule out the possibility that the way we understand parenting has been shaped by the predominantly Western- and U. S. -focused research in this ?eld.
Download or read book Social and Emotional Adjustment and Family Relations in Ethnic Minority Families written by Ronald D. Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Asian Immigrant Parents and Their Asian Asian American Children written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manuscript explores and examines Asian/Asian-American identity and values. A brief discussion of Asian immigration history, intergenerational trauma, and the impacts of COVID-19 will be linked to Asian identity. Eastern values are explored in conjunction with Western values to highlight the differences and contradictions Asians/Asian-Americans navigate. Biculturalism is explained, as well as how the navigation of values results in individuals living in their ethnic and host cultures simultaneously. Acculturation and enculturation, the model minority myth, education and the American Dream, and bicultural stress experienced by Asian-Americans and Asian international students are explored to highlight the various ways in which biculturalism is apparent in the lives of Asians/Asian-Americans. Emotions, parenting, and attachment among Asians/Asian-Americans are examined. A definition of emotions is presented, as well as a theoretical framework explaining the complexity of how emotions are an intricate part of culture. Western notions of parenting and attachment are explored, along with parenting and attachment styles relevant to Asian culture. Lastly, implications for counselors regarding mental health stigma, paucity of attachment research, interventions for biculturalism, race-based trauma, and intergenerational connection are presented to contribute to culturally-sensitive interventions mental health professionals may implement in the therapeutic processes with Asian/Asian-American clients.
Download or read book Chinese Mothers and Immigrant Chinese Mothers Practices Children s Perceptions and School Children s Behavioral Competence in Taiwan and the United States written by Wan-Li Lo and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Goal is to Encourage My Children to Learn written by Sara Noh-Mee-Hae Holm and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Latina mothers perceive their role in their children's education? What are their expectations of their children's teachers and school staff? Using a qualitative research design, these questions were addressed in a study of Latina mothers of early elementary school children in a small mountain town in Western United States. The interviews conducted revealed that these mothers' childhood and educational histories led to strong beliefs in the value of their children's education in the United States. The participants expressed strong desires to support their children's education through college. They also maintained the value of extended family they learned growing up among cousins and multiple generations by living near and continuing to share their lives with family as adults. Additionally, mothers relied heavily on social networks to stay informed about their children's school. The implications for this study are for schools to try to understand and relate to immigrant parents' educational histories and their relationship to education in the United States. Educators can be aware of the compounded costs and barriers to higher education that Latino families face due to a potential lack of familiarity with the education system, the importance for some families to remain invisible among potential legal threats and how this influences their decisions to participate or not in school activities.
