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Intrusive parenting in Chinese American immigrant families: Relations with cultural orientations and children’s adjustment.

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: age = 9.19 years, range = 7.49 to 10.96 years) and their parents from first- and second-generation immigrant families. Parents and children reported on parents' intrusive parenting, their own cultural orientations, and parents and teachers reported on children's internalizing and externalizing problems. Observed intrusive parenting behaviors were coded from videotaped parent-child conflict discussions. Findings from path analysis indicated that there was a unique positive association between child Chinese orientation and child-reported intrusive parenting, a unique negative association between parents' American orientation and child reported intrusive parenting, and a unique positive association between child American orientation and observed intrusive parenting. Intrusive parenting was negatively associated with child adjustment, but associations varied depending on measurement. Findings suggest that different measures of intrusive parenting are differentially associated with children's adjustment in Chinese American immigrant families.

Source: Asian American Journal of Psychology

DOI: 10.1037/aap0000165

Authors: Carmen Kho, Alexandra Main, Sara Chung, Qing Zhou

Institutions: University of California, Merced, University of California, Berkeley

Language: English

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Foundation for Child Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development