Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2017
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Parenting, Tiger parenting, Adjustment, Chinese Americans, Adolescence
Discipline
Child Psychology | Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Asian American parenting: Family process and intervention
Editor
Choi Yoonsun & Hahm Hyeouk
First Page
69
Last Page
88
ISBN
9783319631356
Identifier
10.1007/978-3-319-63136-3_4
Publisher
Springer
City or Country
Cham
Citation
KIM, Su Yeong, CHEN, Shanting, SIM, Lester, & HOU, Yang. (2017). Stability and change in parenting and adjustment profiles across early, middle, and late adolescence in Chinese American families. In Asian American parenting: Family process and intervention (pp. 69-88). Cham: Springer.
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63136-3_4