Sex Roles
Volume 60, Issue 7-8 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 600-610

Father, mother and me: Parental value orientations and child self-identity in asian american immigrants (Article)

Koh J.B.K. , Shao Y. , Wang Q.*
  • a Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401, United States
  • b Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401, United States
  • c Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401, United States

Abstract

Relations between Asian American parental value orientations and children's self-identity in the domains of achievement and relationship were examined. Sixty-nine Asian American youths (15 males) of East Asian origin (51 Chinese, 18 Koreans) interviewed their parents (30 fathers) for their life stories as first-generation Asian Americans. They also told their life stories as second-generation Asian Americans. Fathers and mothers upheld Confucian values, which were associated with children's autonomous sense of self in achievement domain and relational sense of self in relationship domain. Furthermore, fathers and mothers had differential influences on children's self-identity, and sons and daughters responded differently to parental value socializations. Findings are discussed with respect to parent-child relationships and continuity of ethnic values in contemporary Asian American families. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Author Keywords

Identity parent-child relationship self Socialization Ethnic value Asian American family

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-63749130535&doi=10.1007%2fs11199-008-9550-z&partnerID=40&md5=91650acd95cc4610f1c04f2d3af27391
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-008-9550-z
ISSN: 03600025
Cited by: 20
Original Language: English