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Associations Between Parenting Styles and Perceived Child Effortful Control Within Chinese Families in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan

Lambie; Huang

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The current study examined the associations between parentally perceived child effortful control (EC) and the parenting styles of 122 Chinese mothers (36 first-generation Chinese immigrants in the United Kingdom, 40 first-generation Chinese immigrants in the United States, and 46 Taiwanese mothers) of 5- to 7-year-old (M age = 5.82 years, SD = .805; 68 boys and 54 girls) children. The findings showed significant cultural group differences in mothers’ reported authoritarian parenting style. Significant associations also emerged between mothers’ reports of their children’s EC and some parenting dimensions, although there were no cultural group differences in perceived child EC. Different patterns of associations between perceived child EC and parenting styles in these three groups also demonstrated heterogeneity within the Chinese population, and highlighted the need to consider differences between original and receiving societies when seeking to understand parenting and child development in different immigrant groups.

Acceptance Date Apr 26, 2017
Publication Date Apr 26, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Print ISSN 0022-0221
Publisher SAGE Publications
Pages 795 - 812
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022117706108
Keywords developmental; child/adolescent; family/child rearing; immigration/migration; temperament
Publisher URL https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022022117706108

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