Beyond Socioeconomics
Explaining Ethnic Group Differences in Parenting Through Cultural and Immigration Processes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15029015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | RUTH K CHAO (University of California, Riverside, corresponding author), Ruth Chao, Akira Kanatsu (University of California, Riverside) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 181-187 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Applied Developmental Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1088-8691 • E-ISSN: 1532-480X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10888690802388102 |
| OpenAlex | W2130412673 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 2 |
This study examined both socioeconomic and cultural factors in explaining ethnic differences in monitoring, behavioral control, and warmth—part of a series of coordinated studies presented in this special issue. Socioeconomic variables included mother's and father's educational levels, employment status, home ownership, number of siblings in the household, and single parent status. Cultural factors included nationality or ethnicity, immigrant status of child, mother's/father's age of arrival in the United States, mother's/father's English language use with the child, child's native fluency, and cultural values for independence and interdependence. The sample consisted of 591 European American, 123 African American, 1,614 Asian American, and 597 Latino students in the ninth grade. All the ethnic minority groups were higher than European Americans on behavioral control, and Latinos were also higher than European Americans on monitoring. However, European Americans were higher on parental warmth than Asian Americans and African Americans. These ethnic group differences primarily remained even after controlling for the socioeconomic factors. Finally, in analyses looking within the Asian and Latino groups, differences in parenting were found within both groups due to nationality or ethnicity, youth's fluency in the native language, and cultural values of interdependence, although values of independence were also related to the parenting of Asian Americans. This research was supported by a grant (R01 HD 38949) awarded to the first author from the National Institute of Child Health and Development. Notes Note. Above ethnic groups are compared to European Americans; †p < .10, ∗p < .05, ∗∗p < .01, ∗∗∗p < .001. †p < .10, ∗p < .05, ∗∗p < .01, ∗∗∗p < .001. p < .10, ∗p < .05, ∗∗p < .01, ∗∗∗p < .001
Cultural diversity · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Group (periodic table · Immigration · Sociology · Anthropology · Chemistry · Cultural Differences and Values · Early Childhood Education and Development · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |