A Changing Relationship: Visiting Chinese Grandparents and Their Adult Children in the United States

Autor/inn/en	Chen, Hao-Min; Lewis, Denise C.
Titel	A Changing Relationship: Visiting Chinese Grandparents and Their Adult Children in the United States
Quelle	In: Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 11 (2016) 2, S.87-98 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1935-3308
Schlagwörter	Grandparents; Adults; Parent Child Relationship; Family Relationship; Asian Culture; Chinese Americans; Confucianism; Religious Factors; Generational Differences; Cultural Influences; Family (Sociological Unit); Parenting Styles; Attitude Change; Social Change; Context Effect + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Großeltern; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Asian immigrant; Chinese; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; Chinesen; USA; Konfuzianismus; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Familie; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Sozialer Wandel
Abstract	This study, informed by social constructionism and narrative theories, explored the relationship stories told by visiting Chinese grandparents and their adult children in a southern region of the United States. The purpose of this research was to create space for family members' explanations of their familial interactions and the meanings they ascribed to family relationships. We also investigated the impact of philosophical traditions and cultural contexts and the role such traditions and contexts had on intergenerational relationships and cultural dissonance. Six families (i.e., 6 grandparents and 11 adult children) originally from Mainland China were interviewed. All grandparents were temporarily residing with or near their adult children in the United States when the study was conducted. Semi-structured interviews and observations were analyzed and data indicated a changing relationship between grandparents and their adult children, compared with their traditional counterparts. We organized and presented data to draw attention to regularities that implicated cultural processes and included implications of culturally sensitive strategies for researchers working with this population. (As Provided).
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