Stability and change in parenting and adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence in Chinese American families

Chinese American parents have a reputation for being “tiger” parents, and Chinese American adolescents are widely viewed as “model” minorities. However, these stereotypes fail to capture the within-group variation among Chinese Americans. This chapter aims to present findings on Chinese Americans’ p...

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Main Authors: KIM, Su Yeong, CHEN, Shanting, SIM, Lester, HOU, Yang
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-39342023-10-09T07:03:00Z Stability and change in parenting and adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence in Chinese American families KIM, Su Yeong CHEN, Shanting SIM, Lester HOU, Yang Chinese American parents have a reputation for being “tiger” parents, and Chinese American adolescents are widely viewed as “model” minorities. However, these stereotypes fail to capture the within-group variation among Chinese Americans. This chapter aims to present findings on Chinese Americans’ parenting profiles and adolescent adjustment profiles. Four parenting profiles were identified. Supportive (high levels of positive and low levels of negative parenting) was the most prevalent parenting profile, followed by tiger (high levels of both positive and negative parenting), easygoing (low on both positive and negative parenting), and harsh (low levels of positive and high levels of negative parenting). Three adolescent profiles were identified. Well-adjusted (high levels of academic and socioemotional well-being) was the most prevalent adjustment profile, followed by paradoxically adjusted (high levels of academic and low levels of socioemotional well-being) and poorly adjusted (low levels of academic and socioemotional well-being). There was evidence for stability and change both in Chinese American parenting profiles and in adolescent adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence. Across the course of adolescence, mothers were found to exert less tiger parenting, while fathers were found to exert more tiger parenting. Slightly more than half of adolescents (55%) stayed in the same adjustment profile across time. Tiger parenting related to a stable paradoxically adjusted adjustment profile, suggesting that tiger parenting may promote academic success, but at the cost of psychological well-being across the course of adolescence. Supportive parenting consistently related to stably well-adjusted adjustment profiles for Chinese American adolescents. 2017-09-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2677 info:doi/10.1007/978-3-319-63136-3_4 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3934/viewcontent/Kim2017_Chapter_StabilityAndChangeInParentingA__1_.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Parenting Tiger parenting Adjustment Chinese Americans Adolescence Child Psychology Psychology
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Singapore
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topic Parenting
Tiger parenting
Adjustment
Chinese Americans
Adolescence
Child Psychology
Psychology
spellingShingle Parenting
Tiger parenting
Adjustment
Chinese Americans
Adolescence
Child Psychology
Psychology
KIM, Su Yeong
CHEN, Shanting
SIM, Lester
HOU, Yang
Stability and change in parenting and adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence in Chinese American families
description Chinese American parents have a reputation for being “tiger” parents, and Chinese American adolescents are widely viewed as “model” minorities. However, these stereotypes fail to capture the within-group variation among Chinese Americans. This chapter aims to present findings on Chinese Americans’ parenting profiles and adolescent adjustment profiles. Four parenting profiles were identified. Supportive (high levels of positive and low levels of negative parenting) was the most prevalent parenting profile, followed by tiger (high levels of both positive and negative parenting), easygoing (low on both positive and negative parenting), and harsh (low levels of positive and high levels of negative parenting). Three adolescent profiles were identified. Well-adjusted (high levels of academic and socioemotional well-being) was the most prevalent adjustment profile, followed by paradoxically adjusted (high levels of academic and low levels of socioemotional well-being) and poorly adjusted (low levels of academic and socioemotional well-being). There was evidence for stability and change both in Chinese American parenting profiles and in adolescent adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence. Across the course of adolescence, mothers were found to exert less tiger parenting, while fathers were found to exert more tiger parenting. Slightly more than half of adolescents (55%) stayed in the same adjustment profile across time. Tiger parenting related to a stable paradoxically adjusted adjustment profile, suggesting that tiger parenting may promote academic success, but at the cost of psychological well-being across the course of adolescence. Supportive parenting consistently related to stably well-adjusted adjustment profiles for Chinese American adolescents.
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author KIM, Su Yeong
CHEN, Shanting
SIM, Lester
HOU, Yang
author_facet KIM, Su Yeong
CHEN, Shanting
SIM, Lester
HOU, Yang
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title Stability and change in parenting and adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence in Chinese American families
title_short Stability and change in parenting and adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence in Chinese American families
title_full Stability and change in parenting and adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence in Chinese American families
title_fullStr Stability and change in parenting and adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence in Chinese American families
title_full_unstemmed Stability and change in parenting and adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence in Chinese American families
title_sort stability and change in parenting and adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence in chinese american families
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2017
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2677
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