scholarly journals Chinese American immigrant parents’ emotional expression in the family: Relations with parents’ cultural orientations and children’s emotion-related regulation.

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Chen ◽  
Qing Zhou ◽  
Alexandra Main ◽  
Erica H. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Cultural Orientations ◽  
Children's Emotion ◽  
The Family ◽  
American Immigrant

scholarly journals Cultural Values, Social Status, and Chinese American Immigrant Parents’ Emotional Expressivity

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-395
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Chen ◽  
Qing Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Emotional Expressivity ◽  
The Family ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Education Levels

Cultural values and social status are two salient factors in the psychological experiences of immigrant families, and both have been associated with immigrant parents’ patterns of emotional expression in previous studies. The present study examined how endorsement of cultural values (collectivism and conformity) and social status were uniquely associated with immigrant parents’ emotional expressivity in the family. First-generation Chinese American immigrant parents ( N = 239, 80% mothers; M = 41.31 years old) of elementary-age children reported on their endorsement of values of collectivism and conformity, their patterns of emotional expressivity in the family context, and their family income and education levels. Path analyses indicated unique positive associations between family income and all domains of parents’ emotional expressivity and negative associations between family income and parents’ endorsement of collectivism and conformity. Parents’ endorsement of collectivism was negatively associated with negative-dominant expressivity. We discuss implications of our findings for theories of culture and emotion, as well as for future intersectional approaches with Asian American populations.

scholarly journals Chinese American Immigrant Parents' Socialization of Emotions in Bilingual Bicultural Preschool Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Huang ◽  
Pui Fong Kan
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
The Other ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Language Background ◽  
Parent Questionnaire ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
Chinese Parent ◽  
American Immigrant

The purpose of this study was to examine Cantonese-speaking Chinese American immigrant parents' socialization of emotions in bilingual bicultural preschool children, using a combination of a parent questionnaire and parent language samples from emotion-elicited storytelling tasks. Sixteen Cantonese-speaking parents and their children participated in this study. Children were sequential bilinguals who were exposed to Cantonese (L1) at home since birth, and then learned English (L2) at school. The Chinese parent questionnaire examined parents' emotion talk in the home, as well as the child's dual language background and language distribution. Parents' language samples in Cantonese were collected from three parent-child storytelling tasks that each elicited a different type of negative emotion (sad, angry, scared). Results from the parent questionnaire and the parent language samples were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods. In the parent questionnaire, correlation analysis revealed that parents' use of guilt emotions was not associated with any of the other emotion words, suggesting that parents may not talk about guilt as frequently as the other emotions. Results from the parents' language samples showed no significant differences between parents' number of emotion words and emotion explanations across the storytelling tasks, suggesting that parents used negative emotion words similarly across all three books. Further qualitative analysis between the parent questionnaire and the language samples revealed patterns in the way parents use Chinese emotion words with their children. Findings illustrate how the combined use of a parent questionnaire and parent language samples offer complementary information to provide a more comprehensive understanding about Chinese American immigrant parents' socialization of emotions.

The Li of Chinese American Familism

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-156
Author(s):  
Russell M. Jeung ◽  
Seanan S. Fong ◽  
Helen Jin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
The Family ◽  
Tea Ceremony ◽  
Over Time

Chapter 6 identifies how Chinese Americans maintain the value of family through rituals, including rites of passage, ethnic routines, and table traditions. Rites of passage such as the wedding tea ceremony provide individuals with distinct responsibilities within the family. Ethnic routines, including family meals, transnational visits, and reunions, inculcate the norms of hospitality, reciprocity, and face/shame. They also teach the cultural scripts of familism through table traditions, such as pouring tea. Traditions and rituals change over time, however, and second-generation Chinese Americans pass on their liyi values and ethics differently than their immigrant parents did. The second generation lack a migration story of family sacrifice and have an attenuated knowledge of Chinese liyi traditions, and racialized multiculturalism further reduces ethnic traditions to what is marketable and consumable. Chinese Americans therefore hybridize and Americanize their ethnicity, which results in a new liyi Chinese American identity that consists of food and fun.

Mothers' self-reported emotional expression in Mainland Chinese, Chinese American and European American families

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 459-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Camras ◽  
Karen Kolmodin ◽  
Yinghe Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Emotional Expressivity ◽  
European American ◽  
Child Gender ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Family Ecology ◽  
The Family

This study compared Mainland Chinese, Chinese American and European American mothers' self-reported emotional expression within the family. Mothers of 3-year-old European American ( n = 40), Chinese American ( n = 39) and Mainland Chinese ( n = 36) children ( n = 20 girls per group) completed the Self-Expressiveness in the Family Questionnaire (SEFQ), a measure that includes 40 items describing the expression of positive and negative emotion (20 items each). Respondents indicate how frequently they engage in each expressive practice. Mothers also completed a questionnaire regarding family ecology variables. European American mothers reported significantly more positive emotional expression than Mainland Chinese mothers, although no significant differences were found for expression of negative emotion. While family ecology differed across groups, these variables were not related to the emotional expression scores. No child-gender differences were obtained. Results of this study confirm the presence of cultural differences in mothers' emotional expressivity.

scholarly journals Parent–child cultural orientations and child adjustment in Chinese American immigrant families.

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Chen ◽  
Michelle Hua ◽  
Qing Zhou ◽  
Annie Tao ◽  
Erica H. Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Adjustment ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Cultural Orientations ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Parent Child

Intergenerational Family Relations in Luxembourg

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Albert ◽  
Dieter Ferring ◽  
Tom Michels
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Generation Gap ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
Acculturation Gap ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Model Family

According to the intergenerational solidarity model, family members who share similar values about family obligations should have a closer relationship and support each other more than families with a lower value consensus. The present study first describes similarities and differences between two family generations (mothers and daughters) with respect to their adherence to family values and, second, examines patterns of relations between intergenerational consensus on family values, affectual solidarity, and functional solidarity in a sample of 51 mother-daughter dyads comprising N = 102 participants from Luxembourgish and Portuguese immigrant families living in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Results showed a small generation gap in values of hierarchical gender roles, but an acculturation gap was found in Portuguese mother-daughter dyads regarding obligations toward the family. A higher mother-daughter value consensus was related to higher affectual solidarity of daughters toward their mothers but not vice versa. Whereas affection and value consensus both predicted support provided by daughters to their mothers, affection mediated the relationship between consensual solidarity and received maternal support. With regard to mothers, only affection predicted provided support for daughters, whereas mothers’ perception of received support from their daughters was predicted by value consensus and, in the case of Luxembourgish mothers, by affection toward daughters.

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