Parent–Child Acculturation Profiles as Predictors of Chinese American Adolescents’ Academic Trajectories

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1263-1274

  Kim, Su Yeong ^a   Wang, Yijie ^a   Chen, Qi ^b   Shen, Yishan ^a   Hou, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic trajectory; Adolescence; Chinese American; Parent child acculturation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASPIRATIONS (PSYCHOLOGY); EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PSYCHOLOGY, ADOLESCENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939895913     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-014-0131-x     Document Type: Article

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