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Acculturation, Psychological Adjustment, and Parenting Styles of Chinese Immigrant Mothers in the United States 在美国的中国移民母亲的文化适应、心理调节和养育子女的习惯 Abstract: This study examined whether acculturation to American culture, maintenance of Chinese culture, and their interaction predicted Chinese immigrant parents' psychological adjustment and parenting styles. We hypothesized that American orientation would be associated with more positive psychological well-being and fewer depressive symptoms in immigrant mothers, which in turn would be associated with more authoritative parenting and less authoritarian parenting. The examination of the roles of Chinese orientation and the interaction of the 2 cultural orientations in relation to psychological adjustment and parenting were exploratory. Method: Participants were 164 first-generation Chinese immigrant mothers in the United States (M-age = 37.80). Structural equation modeling was used to examine the direct and indirect effects of acculturation on psychological adjustment and parenting. Bootstrapping technique was used to explore the conditional indirect effects of acculturation on parenting as appropriate. Results: American orientation was strongly associated with positive psychological well-being, which was in turn related to more authoritative parenting and less authoritarian parenting. Moreover, American and Chinese orientations interacted to predict depressive symptoms, which were in turn associated with more authoritarian parenting. Specifically, American orientation was negatively associated with depressive symptoms only at mean or high levels of Chinese orientation. Conclusions: Results suggest acculturation as a distal contextual factor and psychological adjustment as 1 critical mechanism that transmits effects of acculturation to parenting. Promoting immigrant parents' ability and comfort in the new culture independently or in conjunction with encouraging biculturalism through policy intervention efforts appear crucial for the positive adjustment of Chinese immigrant parents and children. 摘要：本研究旨在探讨是否适应美国文化、保持中国文化、以及它们之间的相互作用可以预测中国移民父母的心理调整和养育子女的方式。我们假定，对移民母亲来说，美国取向将与更积极的心理健康和更少的抑郁症状关联，这反过来又与更威信型式的养育和更少的独裁养育关联。本文探索了两种文化取向和其交互与心理调适和父母养育的关系。方法：参与者为在美国的164名第一代中国移民母亲（平均年龄37.80岁）。使用结构方程模型研究文化适应对心理调整和父母养育的直接和间接的影响。酌情使用自助技术探索文化适应对养育的条件性的间接影响。结果：美国取向与积极的心理健康密切相关，这与更威信的父母养育和更少的父母专制有关。此外，美国和中国取向的相互作用则预测了抑郁症状，这反过来又与更专制的养育关联。具体而言，只有在平均水平或高于平均水平的中国取向上，美国取向与抑郁症状呈负相关。结论：结果表明，作为远端的环境因素和心理调节的一个关键机制，文化适应将影响养育方式。独立地增强移民父母在新文化中的能力和舒适度，或通过政策干预鼓励文化的结合对中国移民父母和孩子的积极调整至关重要。 作者: Yu, Jing; Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Calvin, Grace 来源：CULTURAL DIVERSITY & ETHNIC MINORITY SYCHOLOGY 卷: 22 期: 4 页: 504-516 出版年: OCT 2016 (责任编辑：admin) |