Cultural Perspective on Parenting, Trait Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health in Taiwanese Children-IJEE.pdf (original) (raw)
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2017
The current study aims to clarify the associations as well as the pathways through which parenting and children's emotional intelligence (EI) may influence children's mental health with a cross-sectional sample of 675 school pupils (fourth grade, mean age = 10.4 years, 310 boy, 356 girls and 9 unidentified) in Taiwan. Hierarchical regression and path analyses were used to examine the relationships between parenting styles, children's trait EI, and their psychological symptoms, with children's psychological symptoms as the dependent variable. The results showed that authoritative parenting was positively associated with children‟s trait EI, which in turn had a negative effect on children‟s psychological symptoms, whereas authoritarian and Chinese-specific parenting styles had direct negative effect on children‟s psychological symptoms. These findings shed light on the pathways of the interrelations between different parenting styles, children's trait EI, and psych...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019
The current study examines the relationship between parents' and children's reports of parenting and their effects on children's mental health symptoms. Six hundred and sixty-six parent-child dyads in Taiwan participated in this study. The parents and the children filled out the parenting questionnaires, and the children also reported their general mental health. The results demonstrated that parental-reported and child perceived parenting were positively correlated, but parents tended to report lower scores on authoritarian parenting and higher scores on Chinese parenting than did their children. There were also significant gender differences: The mothers reported higher authoritative parenting than did the fathers; and the boys perceived higher authoritarian and Chinese culture specific parenting than did the girls. Moreover, the Chinese parenting had a negative effect on children's mental health outcomes. Finally, our results showed that children's perception of parenting had a stronger effect on children's mental health symptoms than did parental reports on parenting, urging future research to include the children's report when investigating the effects of parenting on children's mental health outcomes.
The additive and interactive relations of parenting styles (authoritative and authoritarian parenting) and child temperament (anger/frustration, sadness, and effortful control) to children's internalizing problems were examined in a 3.8-year longitudinal study of 425 Chinese children (aged 6-9 years) from Beijing. At Wave 1, parents self-reported on their parenting styles, and parents and teachers rated child temperament. At Wave 2, parents, teachers, and children rated children's internalizing problems. Structural equation modeling indicated that the main effect of authoritative parenting and the interactions of Authoritarian Parenting  Effortful Control and Authoritative Parenting  Anger/Frustration (parents' reports only) prospectively and uniquely predicted internalizing problems. The above results did not vary by child sex and remained significant after controlling for co-occurring externalizing problems. These findings suggest that (a) children with low effortful control may be particularly susceptible to the adverse effect of authoritarian parenting and (b) the benefit of authoritative parenting may be especially important for children with high anger/frustration.
Perceived Parenting Styles and Emotional Intelligence Among Adolescents in Vietnam
The Family Journal, 2020
Emotional intelligence (EI) has a significant role in psychological well-being and is affected by parenting styles. There is no evidence about this relationship in countries with the impact of Confucianism and feudalism, in which parents use authoritarian caregiving to foster their children. The aim of the current study was to examine the association between parenting styles and EI among Vietnamese adolescents. This is a cross-sectional school survey using multilevel regression analyses controlling for potential confounders and school cluster effects. The principal data sources were the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Adolescent Short Form, which has been translated into Vietnamese, and the locally validated Parental Bonding Instrument, which assesses three main parenting styles: warmth, overprotectiveness, and authoritarianism. Results from 1,593 students revealed that boys had significantly higher overall EI, Well-Being, and Self-Control subscale scores than girls. The warmth of parents during childhood was associated with higher EI, while overprotectiveness and authoritarianism from mothers were associated with lower EI among adolescents. This study supports the impact of parenting styles on EI. The warmth and care from both mother and father will benefit the emotional development of their children in Vietnam.
Parenting, 2011
Objectives. Parents from different cultures differ in how frequently they express emotions. However, the generalizability of the relations between parental expressivity and child adjustment in non-Western cultures has not been extensively studied. The authors investigated prospective relations between parental expressivity within the family (positive, negative dominant, and negative submissive expressivity) and Chinese children’s psychological adjustment, above and beyond parenting styles. Design. The study used 2 waves (3.8 years apart) of longitudinal data from a sample (n = 425) of children in Beijing (mean ages = 7.7 years at T1 and 11.6 years at T2). Parental expressivity and parenting styles were self-reported. To reduce the potential measurement overlap, items that tap parental expression of emotions toward the child were removed from the parenting style measure. The authors measured children’s adjustment with parents’, teachers’, and peers’ or children’s reports. Results. Consistent with findings with European American samples, parental negative dominant expressivity uniquely and positively predicted Chinese children’s externalizing problems controlling for prior externalizing problems, parenting styles, and family socioeconomic status. Neither parental expressivity nor parenting styles uniquely predicted social competence. Conclusions. Despite previously reported cultural differences in the mean levels of parental expressivity, some of the socialization functions of parental expressivity found in Western countries can be generalized to Chinese families. Although parental expressivity and parenting styles are related constructs, their unique relations to child’s adjustment suggest that they should be examined as distinct processes.
Chinese parenting has often been characterized as overly strict and controlling. While strict parental control has been considered a defining feature of traditional Chinese parenting that dates back to Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist teachings (Shek, 2007), modern Chinese parenting practices appear to have changed with the times with developmental science and a growing body of studies confirming changes in Chinese parenting practices (Kim et al., 2013; Way et al., 2013). In the 21st century, Chinese parenting is a combination of traditional and modern ideologies and practices, consisting of guǎn (管) and jiào xun (教訓) with autonomy support; this type of strictness-supervision counterbalanced by autonomy support is the yin and yang in parenting (Liew et al., in press). This report highlights study findings that challenge the popular notion that overly controlling or restrictive parenting is the best way to raise academically successful children from Chinese and immigrant backgrounds.
Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2018
The present study tested the mediating role of adolescents' emotional intelligence for the effects of family risks on adolescent adjustment in two Chinese settings, namely Hong Kong and Macau. A total of 804 Chinese adolescents (36.3% female) in Hong Kong (n = 441) and Macau (n = 363) completed a set of self-reported questionnaires. Findings based on path analysis suggested that economic stress was positively associated with family conflict. In addition, family risks including economic stress and family conflict were inversely associated with adolescents' emotional intelligence and prosocial behaviors, and positively associated with both internalizing and externalizing problems. Bootstrapping supported emotional intelligence as a mediating mechanism between family risks and adolescent adjustment, as indexed by their prosocial behaviors, internalizing problems, and externalizing problems. Multi-group path analysis further demonstrated gender similarities in the risk and protective processes underlying adolescent adjustment. Extending the findings based on studies conducted in Western contexts, the present research indicated the detrimental effects of family stressors, including economic stress and family conflict, on adolescent functioning in Hong Kong and Macau. Findings contributed to the growing literature that delineates risk and protective processes underlying adjustment outcomes in Chinese adolescents. Keywords Adolescent • Adjustment • Chinese contexts • Emotional intelligence • Economic stress • Family conflict Adolescence is a transitional period in which children encounter biological, social, and psychological changes including puberty, identity formation, and school transitions. These experiences may elicit intense and fluctuating moods, increase stress, and potentially aggravate parentchild conflict intensity, mood disruptions, and risky behaviors (Arnett 1999; Laursen et al. 1998; Cicchetti and Rogosch 2002). Despite a tendency toward emotional extremes and dysregulation, the gradual development of
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
The purpose of this investigation was to examine comparable dimensions and linkages between child temperament and parenting styles with samples from Beijing, China and the Western United States. Participants included 404 mothers and fathers from Beijing, China and 325 mothers and father from the Western United States. Both mothers and fathers completed Buss and Plomin's (1984) EAS Temperament Scale as well as a spousal-report measure of parenting styles. Structural equation modeling was used to identify invariant (statistically comparable) factors for child temperament and parenting styles. Within culture gender comparisons showed that Chinese fathers (relative to mothers) viewed their sons as being more active and sociable than daughters while U.S. mothers (relative to fathers) rated their sons as being more active. Across culture differences revealed that U.S. parents (relative to Beijing parents) viewed children as more emotional while Chinese fathers (relative to U.S. fathers) rated their children as more active. Similar and differential cultural patterns of linkages were also found between parenting styles and child temperament. Child emotionality was positively associated with authoritarian parenting in both cultures while child activity level was linked to more authoritative and less authoritarian parenting styles, but only in the Chinese sample. Finally, child sociability was found to be negatively linked to cross-gender patterns of authoritarian parenting in the U.S. while mothers' and fathers' authoritarian parenting in China was linked to lower sociability in daughters only.
International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) Bulletin, 2014
Chinese parenting has often been characterized as overly strict and controlling. While strict parental control has been considered a defining feature of traditional Chinese parenting that dates back to Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist teachings (Shek, 2007), modern Chinese parenting practices appear to have changed with the times with developmental science and a growing body of studies confirming changes in Chinese parenting practices (Kim et al., 2013; Way et al., 2013). In the 21st century, Chinese parenting is a combination of traditional and modern ideologies and practices, consisting of guǎn (管) and jiào xun (教訓) with autonomy support; this type of strictness-supervision counterbalanced by autonomy support is the yin and yang in parenting (Liew et al., in press). This report highlights study findings that challenge the popular notion that overly controlling or restrictive parenting is the best way to raise academically successful children from Chinese and immigrant backgrounds.