W5 family Flashcards
Interactions between acculturation and adjustment in canadain domains
With
one exception, interactions between parent and child acculturation in Canadian domains were unrelated to
adjustment (conflict intensity, depressive feelings, and achievement motivation)
Except for mother child Canadian media use predicted ac achieve
Interactions between acculturation and adjustment in chinese domains?
mother – child interactions in Chinese public
domains and father – child interactions in the Chinese private domain predicted adjustment.
In all interactions,
when parents were strongly orientated toward Chinese culture, lower levels of …orientation among
children were associated with lower adjustmen
Chinese
T: individuals
must find a balance between retaining features of
their ethnic culture and adopting features of the host
cultur
acculturation
Parents and children may work through
these acculturative issues at different rates, which
may result in … between parents
and children
acculturation differences
the extent of differences in acculturation
between parents and their children is an important
context in immigrant families for navigating the
early adolescent period- when dissimilar who usually
children generally acculturate more quickly than
their parents, with parents maintaining ethnic tra-
ditions that are at odds with children’s experiences
in the new culture
Adaptation following immigration is influenced by 2
the larger context of
the receiving society, and the ideology of Canada is
broadly supportive of bicultural integration
why acculturative stress for this population
large differences in cul-
tural values and customs between Chinese and Ca-
nadian cultures can create acculturative stress
Parent – child acculturation differences may be
most likely and most consequential during early
adolescence compared with earlier developmental
periods why
hey increasingly
participate in environments that are not selected by
their parents and in which their parents are not in-
volved
Accul-
turation differences may be associated with more
intense conflict because …
different levels of accultur-
ation may signify less proficiency in English on the
part of parents and less proficiency in Chinese on the
part of children = worse communication, dif expectations
what dif aspects of adjustment evaluated?
conflict, depressive symptoms, achievemenet motivation
why suspected greater depression?
language barriers associated with accul-
turation differences may make it more difficult for
parents and children to communicate about subtle or
difficult emotional issues. Children who are cultur-
ally discrepant from their parents may also feel that
they are disappointing their parents by failing to live
up to parents’ expectations. In addition, children
may feel a lack of understanding= difficult for parents to support
achievement motivation potential influence?
stress associated with
parent – child acculturation differences may interfere
with children’s academic endeavors. orient toward peers= less focus BCS Chinese value so highly = pressure
domains of acculturation?
private domain, private domain
… includes functional and
behavioral aspects of acculturation such as language
use, whereas the … includes social –
emotional and value-related aspects of acculturation
public domain, private domain
public and private domain study variables
language use and media use as
indicators of acculturation in the public domain, values that are
highly esteemed in each culture (e.g., collectivism in
the Chinese culture and independence in the Cana-
dian culture
within each
domain, we explored parent – child differences in the
adoption of Canadian culture separately from par-
ent – child differences in the retention of Chinese
culture.
t
did children’s cultural orientation and adjust-
ment varied depending on parents’ level of cultural
orientation
We found that parents’ level of engage-
ment in the Chinese culture played an important role
in predicting adjustment levels, whereas parents’
level of engagement in the Canadian culture did not
Overall, the children in
our study reported relatively low levels of conflict,
few depressive feelings, and strong achievement
motivation, despite the presence of parent – child
differences in acculturation, particularly in the … dimension
Ca-
Canadian (wouldnt this lead to more cultural bidding or whatever that lady talked about that creates issues despite more differences here
immagrant children have more MH problems
f manage acculturation cahllenges effectively
ed in Ca-
nadian culture than parents is not associated with
poorer adjustment. Only 1 of 18 interaction terms
was significant in the Canadian dimension what was it
ed in Ca-
nadian culture than parents is not associated with
poorer adjustment. Only 1 of 18 interaction terms
was significant in the Canadian dimension
Parents’ and children’s orientation in the Chinese
dimension interacted more consistently to predict
adjustment how
where should intervention focus
our results suggest
that policies and programs that focus on maintaining
immigrant children’s continued involvement in their
ethnic culture, while they also acquire the skills
needed to be successful in the new country support positive connections in the family and im-
migrant children’s well-being
results within chinese dimension
children’s orien-
tation toward Chinese culture was associated with
adjustment when parents were strongly orientated
toward Chinese culture, but not when parents were
weakly oriented toward Chinese culture.
key context appears to be the
extent to which parents are more highly orientated
toward Chinese culture than children. With only one
exception, …
children’s level of involvement in the
Chinese culture was unrelated to adjustment when
parents reported low levels of Chinese cultural in-
volvement
When
parents are highly involved in Chinese culture, they
are invested in maintaining traditional ethnic be-
haviors and values and it may be threatening or
disruptive when children are not similarly oriented
toward cultural maintenance. In contrast, when
parents themselves do not maintain a strong orien-
tation toward Chinese culture, they may still feel
positively about their children’s interest in Chinese
culture. This may reduce the likelihood that differ-
ences in this direction are associated with adjustment
difficulties.
?
The interaction between mother and child in-
volvement in the Chinese… domain showed the
most consistent associations with adjustment.
public
why issues with moms? who are high Chinese kids low
differing abilities and preferences
for communicating in Chinese, which may make it
more difficult to effectively discuss areas of disa-
greement and to share emotional issues. In addition,
difficulties communicating and fewer shared activi-
ties may increase children’s perceptions that they
and their mothers operate in two different, incom-
patible cultural worlds less maternal support as
they negotiate the early adolescent period, which
may place them at risk for depressive feelings and
low achievement motivation
impact w mom
poorer adjustment (higher levels of conflict intensity
and depression and lower levels of achievement
motivation)
impact w dad
athers endorsed relatively high levels of Chinese
values, lower endorsement of Chinese values among
children was associated with higher levels of conflict
intensity and depression
why?
conflict about differences and internalization of these conflicts , value endorsement on harmony
what domain for fathers?
private
why private pub difference: mothers
mothers: more time Mothers’ level of
Chinese language use, and not fathers’ level, may be
important for understanding children’s adjustment if
children interact more with their mothers. and provide emotional support
any decrease in
closeness resulting from communication gaps with
mothers may be more acutely felt by children
than those resulting from communication gaps with
fathers
Why impact of fathers
raditionally considered
the family disciplinarians responsible for ensuring
their children’s achievement and proper behavior Chinese fathers’ responsibility
for education may explain why children’s achieve-
ment motivation was the one area in which father’s
and children’s involvement in Chinese public do-
mains interacted to predict adjustment
fathers’ level of value endorsement was
relevant to understanding the relations between
children’s values and adjustment.
why father more impacting
If fathers are primarily responsible for ensur-
ing children’s proper behavior, then fathers’ values
may be most likely to translate into decisions that
affect children and rules that govern children’s ac-
tivities. Therefore, father – child differences in values
may be more strongly associated with family and
child adjustment than mother – child differences
