Qualitative Research on the Attitudes Toward Teenage Sexual Behavior of Chinese British Families: Methodological Issues

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 156-163

  yu, Juping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese British families; methodological issues; qualitative research; sensitive topic; teenagers and parents

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHINA; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONFIDENTIALITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARENTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; SCOTLAND; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 63849168910     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659608325842     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Arean, P.A., & Gallagher-Thompson, D. (1996). Issues and recommendations for the recruitment and retention of older ethnic minority adults into clinical research. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64(5), 875-880.
2. Berne, L.A., Patton, W., Milton, J., Hunt, L.Y.A., Wright, S., Peppard, J., et al. (2000). A qualitative assessment of Australian parents’ perceptions of sexuality education and communication. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 25(2-3), 161-167.
3. Bowes, A.M., & Dar, N.S. (2000). Researching social care for minority ethnic older people: Implications of some Scottish research. British Journal of Social Work, 30(3), 305-321.
4. Bradby, H., & Williams, R. (1999). Behaviors and expectations in relation to sexual intercourse among 18-20 year old Asians and non-Asians. Journal of Sexual Health and HIV, 75(3), 162-167.
5. Brown, E.J. (2003). Double whammy: Accessing, recruiting and retaining the hidden of the hidden. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 2(1), 43-51.
6. Brown, E.J. (2006). Good mother, bad mother: Perception of mothering by rural African-American women who use cocaine. Journal of Addictions Nursing, 17(1), 21-31.
7. Cheng, Y. (1996). The Chinese upwardly mobile. In C. Peach (Ed.), Ethnicity in the 1991 census. Vol. 2: The ethnic minority population of Great Britain (pp. 161-180). London: HMSO.
8. Department of Health. (2001). Better prevention, better services, better sexual health: The national strategy for sexual health and HIV. Retrieved December 14, 2006, from http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/05/89/45/04058945.pdf
9. Dittus, P.J., & Jaccard, J. (2000). Adolescents’ perceptions of maternal disapproval of sex: Relationship to sexual outcomes. Journal of Adolescent Health, 26(4), 268-278.
10. Evens, M.E., Mejia-Mara, L.J., Zayas, L.H., Boothroyd, R.A., & Rodriguez, O.R. (2001). Conducting research in culturally diverse inner-city neighborhoods: Some lessons learned. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 12(1), 6-14.
11. Hammersley, M., & Atkinson, P. (1995). Ethnography: Principles in practice (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.
12. Home Affairs Committee. (1985). Second report and proceedings on the Chinese community in Britain. London: HMSO.
13. Hutchinson, S., Marsiglio, W., & Cohan, M. (2002). Interviewing young men about sex and procreation: Methodological issues. Qualitative Health Research, 12(1), 42-60.
14. Jaccard, J., Dittus, P.J., & Gordon, V.V. (2000). Parent-teen communication about premarital sex: Factors associated with the extent of communication. Journal of Adolescent Research, 15(2), 187-208.
15. Jones, D. (1979). The Chinese in Britain: Origins and development of a community. New Community, 11(3), 397-401.
16. Lincoln, Y.S. (1992). Sympathetic connections between qualitative methods and health research. Qualitative Health Research, 2(4), 375-391.
17. Lutz, K.F. (2005). Abused pregnant women's interactions with health care providers during the childbearing year. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 34(2), 151-162.
18. Malinowski, B. (1922). Argonauts of the western Pacific: An account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. London: Routledge.
19. Merrell, J., Kinsella, F., Murphy, F., Philpin, S., & Ali, A. (2005). Support needs of carers of dependent adults from a Bangladeshi community. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 51(6), 549-557.
20. Meston, C.M., Trapnell, P.N., & Gorzalka, B.B. (1996). Ethnic and gender differences in sexuality: Variations in sexual behavior between Asian and non-Asian university students. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 25(1), 33-72.
21. Meston, C.M., Trapnell, P.N., & Gorzalka, B.B. (1998). Ethnic, gender, and length-of-residency influences on sexual knowledge and attitudes. Journal of Sex Research, 35(2), 176-188.
22. Ng, M.L., & Lau, M.P. (1990). Sexual attitudes in the Chinese. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 19(4), 373-388.
23. Office for National Statistics. (2004). Resident population by ethnic group, 2001 census. Retrieved July 27, 2004, from http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/expodata/spreadsheets/D7666.xls
24. Office for National Statistics. (2006). Focus on ethnicity and religion. Retrieved February 15, 2008, from http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/foer2006/FoER_Main.pdf
25. Okazaki, S. (2002). Influences of culture in Asian Americans’ sexuality. Journal of Sex Research, 39(1), 34-41.
26. Orner, P. (2006). Psychosocial impacts on caregivers of people living with AIDS. AIDS Care, 18(3), 236-240.
27. Ortiz, C.E. (2005). Disclosing concerns of Latinas living with HIV/AIDS. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 16(3), 210-217.
28. Pang, K.K. (2000). Towards British-Chinese futures: A social geography of second generation young Chinese people in London. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London.
29. Parahoo, K. (1997). Nursing research: Principles, process and issues. New York: Palgrave.
30. Parker, D. (1995). Through different eyes: The cultural identities of young Chinese people in Britain. Aldershot, UK: Avebury.
31. Platzer, H., & James, T. (1997). Methodological issues conducting sensitive research on lesbian and gay men's experience of nursing care. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 25, 628-633.
32. Raschka, C., Wei, L., & Lee, S. (2002). Bilingual development and social networks of British-born Chinese children. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 153, 9-25.
33. Rosaldo, R. (1989). Culture and truth: The remarking of social analysis. Boston: Beacon.
34. Ruan, F.F. (1991). Sex in China: Studies in sexology in Chinese culture. London: Plenum.
35. Scottish Executive. (2005). Respect and responsibility: Strategy and action plan for improving sexual health. Edinburgh, UK: Author.
36. Serrant-Green, L. (2002). Black on Black: Methodological issues for Black researchers working in minority ethnic communities. Nurse Researcher, 9(4), 30-44.
37. Seth, R., Kotwal, A., & Ganguly, K.K. (2005). Street and working children of Delhi, India, misusing toluene: An ethnographic exploration. Substance Use & Misuse, 40(11), 1659-1679.
38. Song, M. (1997). Children's labor in ethnic family businesses: The case of Chinese takeaway businesses in Britain. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 20(4), 690-716.
39. Spradley, J.P. (1979). The ethnographic interview. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
40. Villarruel, A.M. (1998). Cultural influences on the sexual attitudes, beliefs, and norms of young Latina adolescents. Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses, 3(2), 69-81.
41. Walker, J.L. (2001). A qualitative study of parents’ experiences of providing sex education for their children: The implications for health education. Health Education Journal, 60(2), 132-146.
42. Walker, R. (1985). An introduction to applied qualitative research. In R. Walker (Ed.), Applied qualitative research (pp. 3-26). Aldershot, UK: Gower.
43. Wei, L. (1996). Three generations, two languages, one family: Language choice and language shift in a Chinese community in Britain. Language in Society, 25(1), 147-151.
44. Wellings, K., Field, J., Johnson, A., & Wadsworth, J. (1994). Sexual behavior in Britain: The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles. London: Penguin.
45. Wellings, K., Nanchahal, K., Macdowall, W., McManus, S., Erens, B., Mercer, C.H., et al. (2001). Sexual behavior in Britain: Early heterosexual experience. Lancet, 358, 1843-1850.
46. Yu, J. (2004). Attitudes towards sexual behavior of British born Chinese teenagers. Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
47. Zhang, K., Li, D., Li, H., & Beck, E.J. (1999). Changing sexual attitudes and behavior in China: Implications for the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. AIDS Care, 11(5), 581-589.