Child Inhibitory Control and Maternal Acculturation Moderate Effects of Maternal Parenting on Chinese American Children's Adjustment

Autor/inn/en	Yu, Jing; Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Hart, Craig H.; Yang, Chongming
Titel	Child Inhibitory Control and Maternal Acculturation Moderate Effects of Maternal Parenting on Chinese American Children's Adjustment
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 54 (2018) 6, S.1111-1123 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Yu, Jing)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000517
Schlagwörter	Inhibition; Self Control; Mothers; Acculturation; Parenting Styles; Chinese Americans; Adjustment (to Environment); Personality Traits; Preschool Children; Prosocial Behavior; Behavior Problems; Cultural Influences; Path Analysis; Immigrants; Punishment; Predictor Variables; Likert Scales; Questionnaires; Child Behavior; Screening Tests; Statistical Analysis; Bayesian Statistics; Maryland; District of Columbia; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hemmung; Selbstbeherrschung; Mother; Mutter; Akkulturation; Asian immigrant; Chinese; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; Chinesen; USA; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Pfadanalyse; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Bestrafung; Prädiktor; Likert-Skala; Fragebogen; Screening-Verfahren; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	The goals of this study were to examine: (a) bidirectional associations between maternal parenting (physical punishment and guilt induction) and Chinese American preschool children's psychosocial adjustment and (b) the role of maternal cultural orientation and child temperament in moderating parenting effects. Participants were Chinese American mothers and children (N = 163, M[subscript age] = 4.56, 53% boys). Mothers reported on their parenting practices at both Wave 1 (W1) and Wave 2 (W2) and their cultural orientations and children's inhibitory control at W1. Teachers rated children's prosocial, internalizing, and externalizing behaviors at both W1 and W2. A Bayesian approach to path analysis was utilized to investigate how parenting, child inhibitory control, and maternal cultural orientations work together to predict the development of children's prosociality and psychosocial problems. Results showed that for Chinese immigrant mothers who were highly acculturated toward the American culture and for children with low levels of inhibitory control, maternal use of physical punishment predicted more externalizing problems in children. Child inhibitory control and maternal enculturation were directly associated with less W2 child internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Moreover, physical punishment predicted more internalizing behavior, whereas guilt induction predicted less child internalizing behavior. Maternal guilt induction also prospectively predicted more prosocial behavior but only for children with low levels of inhibitory control. Finally, only one child effect was significant: More W1 internalizing behavior predicted less W2 physical punishment. These effects held after controlling for temporal stabilities of the constructs and demographic covariates. Findings are discussed within the cultural context of the study. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01