The Acculturation of Chinese-American Adolescents in Negotiating Autonomy and Connectedness: Comparison between Chinese- and European-Americans

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dc.contributorLiew, Jeffrey
dc.contributorCastillo, Linda G.
dc.creatorChang, Tzu-Fen
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-14T22:17:48Z
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-16T16:14:54Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-07T19:59:10Z
dc.date.available2012-02-14T22:17:48Z
dc.date.available2012-02-16T16:14:54Z
dc.date.available2017-04-07T19:59:10Z
dc.date.created2009-08
dc.date.issued2012-02-14
dc.description.abstractChinese-American adolescents were compared with the major group in the United States (European-American adolescents) in negotiating self-concepts related with autonomy and connectedness. Senses of autonomy and connectedness were evaluated by examining adolescents' cultural value orientations (individualism and collectivism), parent-adolescent relationships (decision-making styles and power perception), and relations between the two constructs. Participants included 56 first- or second-generation Chinese-American adolescents (18.5% of first-generation and 81.5% of secondgeneration) and 45 European-American adolescents, accompanied with their mothers (47 Chinese-American mothers and 42 European-American mothers). In terms of cultural value orientations, Chinese- and European-Americans' selfconcepts were consistently oriented towards collectivism more than individualism in adolescents and mothers. With regard to parent-adolescent relationships, Chinese- American adolescents have identified with the dominant culture to show similar desires of being autonomous as European-American adolescents. However, Chinese-American mothers adopted more authoritarian, conservative, and inflexible parenting styles than European-American mothers. With regard to the relations between variables of cultural value orientations and variables of parent-adolescent relationships, the pattern of findings was consistent with the notion that Chinese-American adolescents who internalize highly collectivistic cultural values displayed more collectivistic communication styles in parent-adolescent relationships than European-American adolescents.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-7112
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectindividualism
dc.subjectcollectivism
dc.subjectself-concept
dc.subjectautonomy
dc.subjectconnectedness
dc.subjectparent-adolescent relationships
dc.subjectChinese-Americans
dc.subjectcultural value orientations
dc.titleThe Acculturation of Chinese-American Adolescents in Negotiating Autonomy and Connectedness: Comparison between Chinese- and European-Americans
dc.typeThesis

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