The influence of maternal acculturation, neighborhood disadvantage, and parenting on Chinese American adolescents' conduct problems: Testing the segmented assimilation hypothesis

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 691-702

  Liu, Lisa L ^a   Lau, Anna S ^a   Chen, Angela Chia Chen ^b   Dinh, Khanh T ^c   Kim, Su Yeong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Chinese American; Conduct problems; Neighborhood disadvantage; Parenting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTHERS; PARENTING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 63049117673     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-008-9275-x     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Achenbach, T. M. (1991). Manual for the Child Behavior Checklist 14-18 and 1991 profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont Department of Psychiatry.
2. Allison, P. D. (2001). Missing data. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
3. R. M. Baron D. A. Kenny 1986 The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 51 1173 1182
4. D. Baumrind 1997 Necessary distinctions Psychological Inquiry 8 3 176 182
5. M. H. Bornstein L. R. Cote 2004 Mothers' parenting cognitions in cultures of origin, acculturating cultures, and cultures of destination Child Development 75 1 221 235
6. M. H. Bornstein O. M. Haynes H. Azuma C. Galperín S. Maital M. Ogino Kathleen Painter L. Pascual M. -G. Pêcheux Charles Rahn S. Toda P. Venuti A. Vyt B. Wright 1998 A cross-national study of self-evaluations and attributions in parenting: Argentina, Belgium, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, and the United States Developmental Psychology 34 4 662 676
7. G. H. Brody X. Ge R. D. Conger F. X. Gibbons V. McBride Murry M. Gerrard R. L. Simons 2001 The influence of neighborhood disadvantage, collective socialization, and parenting on African American children's affiliation with deviant peers Child Development 72 4 1231 1246
8. G. H. Brody X. Ge S. Y. Kim V. M. Murry R. L. Simons F. X. Gibbons M. Gerrard R. D. Conger 2003 Neighborhood disadvantage moderates associations of parenting and older sibling problem attitudes and behavior with conduct disorders in African American children Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 71 211 222
9. R. K. Chao 1994 Beyond parental control and authoritarian parenting style: Understanding Chinese parenting through the cultural notion of training Child Development 65 1111 1119
10. Chao, R., & Tseng, V. (2002). Parenting of Asians. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting (pp. 59-93). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
11. R. D. Conger G. R. Patterson X. Ge 1995 It takes two to replicate: A mediational model for the impact of parents' stress on adolescent adjustment Child Development 66 80 97
12. A. C. Crouter K. D. Davis K. Updegraff M. Delgado M. Fortner 2006 Mexican American fathers' occupational conditions: Links to family members' psychological adjustment Journal of Marriage and Family 68 843 858
13. K. T. Dinh M. W. Roosa J.-Y. Tein V. A. Lopez 2002 The relationship between acculturation and problem behavior proneness in a Hispanic youth sample: A longitudinal mediation model Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 30 3 295 309
14. T. J. Dishion R. J. McMahon 1998 Parental monitoring and the prevention of child and adolescent problem behavior: A conceptual and empirical formulation Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review 1 1 61 75
15. L. E. Dumka M. W. Roosa K. M. Jackson 1997 Risk, conflict, mothers' parenting, and children's adjustment in low-income, Mexican immigrant, and Mexican American families Journal of Marriage and the Family 59 309 323
16. M. K. Eamon C. Mulder 2005 Predicting antisocial behavior among Latino young adolescents: An ecological systems analysis American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 75 1 117 127
17. F. Earls J. McGuire S. Shay 1994 Evaluating a community intervention to reduce the risk of child abuse: Methodological strategies in conducting neighborhood surveys Child Abuse & Neglect 18 473 485
18. J. M. Farver Y. Lee-Shin 2000 Acculturation and Korean-American children's social and play behavior Social Development 9 316 336
19. A. H. Fridrich D. J. Flannery 1995 The effects of ethnicity and acculturation on early adolescent delinquency Journal of Child and Family Studies 4 69 87
20. A. J. Fuligni V. Tseng M. Lam 1999 Attitudes toward family obligations among American adolescents with Asian, Latin American, and European backgrounds Child Development 70 1030 1044
21. X. Ge K. M. Best R. D. Conger R. L. Simons 1996 Parenting behaviors and the occurrence and co-occurrence of adolescent depressive symptoms and conduct problems Developmental Psychology 32 717 731
22. X. Ge R. D. Conger R. J. Cadoret J. M. Neiderhiser W. Yates E. Troughton M. A. Stewart 1996 The developmental interface between nature and nurture: A mutual influence model of child antisocial behavior and parent behaviors Developmental Psychology 32 4 574 589
23. E. T. Gershoff 2002 Corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviors and experiences: A meta-analytic and theoretical review Psychological Bulletin 128 4 539 579
24. N. A. Gonzales J. Deardorff D. Formoso A. Barr M. Barrera Jr. 2006 Family mediators of the relation between acculturation and adolescent mental health Family Relations 55 318 330
25. L. M. Gutman V. C. McLoyd T. Tokoyawa 2005 Financial strain, neighborhood stress, parenting behaviors, and adolescent adjustment in urban African American families Journal of Research on Adolescence 15 4 425 449
26. N. E. Hill K. R. Bush M. W. Roosa 2003 Parenting and family socialization strategies and children's mental health: Low-income, Mexican-American and Euro-American mothers and children Child Development 74 1 189 204
27. P. Jensen M. Roper P. Fisher J. Piacentini 1995 Test-retest reliability of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC 2.1): Parent, child, and combined algorithms Archives of General Psychiatry 52 61 71
28. E. Kim K. Cain M. McCubbin 2006 Maternal and paternal parenting, acculturation, and young adolescent's psychological adjustment in Korean American families Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 19 3 112 129
29. S. Y. Kim X. Ge 2000 Parenting practices and adolescent depressive symptoms in Chinese American families Journal of Family Psychology, Special Issue: Cultural Variation in Families 14 3 420 435
30. P. K. Klebanov J. Brooks-Gun G. J. Duncan 1994 Does neighborhood and family poverty affect mothers' parenting, mental health, and social support? Journal of Marriage and the Family 56 441 455
31. G. P. Knight L. M. Virdin M. Roosa 1994 Socialization and family correlates of mental health outcomes among Hispanic and Anglo American children: Consideration of cross-ethnic scalar equivalence Child Development 65 1 212 224
32. B. A. Kotchick S. Dorsey L. Heller 2005 Predictors of parenting among African American single mothers: Personal and contextual factors Journal of Marriage and Family 67 2 448 460
33. Kreft, I., & DeLeeuw, J. (1998). Introducing multilevel modeling. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
34. J. L. Krull D. P. MacKinnon 2001 Multilevel modeling of individual and group level medicated effects Multivariate Behavioral Research 36 2 249 277
35. J. E. Lansford L. Chang K. A. Dodge P. S. Malone P. Oburu K. Palmerus D. Bacchini C. Pastorelli A. S. Bombi A. Zelli S. Tapanya N. Chaudhary K. Deater-Deckard B. Manke N. Quinn 2005 Physical discipline and children's adjustment: Cultural normativeness as a moderator Child Development 76 6 1234 1246
36. S. Lau P. C. Cheung 1987 Relations between Chinese adolescents' perception of parental control and organization and their perception of parental warmth Developmental Psychology 23 726 729
37. T. Leventhal J. Brooks-Gunn 2000 The neighborhoods they live in: The effects of neighborhood residence on child and adolescent outcomes Psychological Bulletin 126 309 337
38. LeVine, R. A. (1988). Human parental care: Universal goals, cultural strategies, individual behavior. In R. A. LeVine, P. M. Miller, & M. M. West (Eds.), Parental behavior in diverse societies (pp. 5-12). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
39. C. Y. C. Lin V. R. Fu 1990 A comparison of child-rearing practices among Chinese, Immigrant Chinese, and Caucasian-American Parents Child Development 61 429 433
40. R. Loeber T. Dishion 1983 Early predictors of male delinquency: A review Psychological Bulletin 94 68 99
41. Ngo, P. Y. L., & Malz, T. A. (1998). Cross-cultural and crossgenerational differences in Asian Americans' cultural, familial systems and their impact on academic striving. In H. I. McCubbin & E. A. Thompson (Eds.), Resiliency in family series: Vol. 2. Resiliency in Native American and immigrant families (pp. 265-274). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
42. G. R. Patterson M. Stouthamer-Loeber 1984 The correlation of family management practices and delinquency Child Development 55 1299 1307
43. F. Peeples R. Loeber 1994 Do individual factors and neighborhood context explain ethnic differences in juvenile delinquency? Journal of Quantitative Criminology 10 141 157
44. E. E. Pinderhughes R. Nix E. M. Foster D. Jones 2001 Parenting in context: Impact of neighborhood poverty, residential stability, public services, social networks, and danger on parental behaviors Journal of Marriage & the Family 63 4 941 953
45. Portes, A., & Rumbaut, R. G. (1990). Immigrant America: A portrait. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
46. Rothbaum, F., & Weisz, J. R. (1994). Parental care giving and child externalizing behavior in nonclinical samples: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 116, 55-74.
47. Rubin, D. B. (1987). Multiple imputation for nonresponse in surveys. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.
48. A. G. Ryder L. E. Alden D. L. Paulhus 2000 Is acculturation unidimensional or bidimensional? A head-to-head comparison in the prediction of personality, self-identity, and adjustment Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 79 49 65
49. R. Y. Samaniego N. A. Gonzales 1999 Multiple mediators of the effects of acculturation status on delinquency for Mexican American adolescents American Journal of Community Psychology, Special Issue: Adolescent risk behavior 27 189 210
50. R. J. Sampson J. D. Morenoff F. Earls 1999 Beyond social capital: Spatial dynamics of collective efficacy for children American Sociological Review 64 5 633 660
51. E. Seidman H. Yoshikawa A. Roberts D. Chesir-Teran L. Allen J. L. Friedman L. Aber 1998 Structural and experiential neighborhood contexts, developmental stage, and antisocial behavior among urban adolescents in poverty Development and Psychopathology 10 259 281
52. L. Shumow R. Lomax 2002 Parental efficacy: Predictor of parenting behavior and adolescent outcomes Parenting: Science and Practice 2 127 150
53. J. S. Silk F. M. Sessa A. S. Morris L. Steinberg S. Avenevoli 2004 Neighborhood cohesion as a buffer against hostile maternal parenting Journal of Family Psychology 18 135 146
54. R. L. Simons C. Johnson R. D. Conger F. O. Lorenz 1997 Linking community context to quality of parenting: A study of rural families Rural Sociology 62 207 230
55. Snyder, J., & Patterson, G. R. (1987). Family interaction and delinquent behavior. In H. C. Quay (Ed.), Handbook of juvenile delinquency (pp. 216-243). Oxford, England: Wiley.
56. Sobel, M. E. (1982). Asymptotic confidence intervals for indirect effects in structural equation models. In S. Leinhardt (Ed.), Sociological methodology 1982 (pp. 290-312). Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
57. H. Stattin M. Kerr 2000 Parental monitoring: A reinterpretation Child Development 71 4 1072 1085
58. S. R. Weaver S. Y. Kim 2008 A person-centered approach to studying the linkages among parent-child differences in cultural orientation, supportive parenting, and adolescent depressive symptoms in Chinese American families Journal of Youth and Adolescence 37 1 36 49
59. B. Weiss K. A. Dodge J. E. Bates G. S. Petit 1992 Some consequences of early harsh discipline: Child aggression and a maladaptive social information processing style Child Development 63 6 1321 1335
60. Wu, D. Y. H. (1996). Chinese childhood socialization. In: M. H. Bond (Ed.), The handbook of chinese psychology (pp. 143-154). Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
61. Z. Xu C. W. Wan P. H. Mussen J. X. Shen 1991 Family socialization and children's behavior and personality development in China Journal of Genetic Psychology 152 239 253
62. M. Zhou 1997 Segmented assimilation: Issues, controversies, and recent research on the new second generation International Migration Review 31 975 1008