This study attempted to link parental beliefs to parenting behaviors and adolescent
outcomes within specific domains. The study also explored whether parental warmth
moderated the relationship between parenting behavior and adolescent outcomes. A sample
of 60 Chinese immigrant families from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
participated in the study. One primary parent and one adolescent aged between 13 and 18
from each family answered surveys related to parental goals, parenting behaviors and
adolescent competence in the moral, prudential and learning/academic domains. Findings
offer confirmatory evidence for associations between parental goals and parenting behaviors
and between parental goals and adolescent competence in all domains. Parenting behaviors
were related to adolescent competence in the learning/academic domain only. No mediating
effects of parenting behaviors nor moderating effects of parental warmth were found.
Results are discussed in terms of Smetana's (1997) notion of domain-specificity, parental
goal-parenting behavior congruency (Hastings & Grusec, 1998), and age and cultural
relevance in regards to the chain associations found between parental goal, parenting
behavior and adolescent outcomes. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/11663 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Chan, Sing Mei |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 3126109 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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