Developmental Psychology

The research question will be based on the article Longitudinal Linkages among Parent–Child Acculturation Discrepancy, Parenting, Parent–Child Sense of Alienation, and Adolescent Adjustment in Chinese Immigrant Families by Kim, Chen, Wang, Shen, & Orozco, 2012. The research question is: Will Chinese immigrants who use their traditional Chinese parenting style or an assimilated parenting style of Chinese and American styles improve their adolescent’s grade in school? In order to measure this question, we would need to set two different groups that contain Chinese parenting style and mixed parenting style. Next we can survey the parents to see what kind of things they do in their parenting styles. Finally we can compare what kind of grades the students received in school in order to see which style is more effective for kids growing up in that certain environment.
In the article Longitudinal Linkages among Parent–Child Acculturation Discrepancy, Parenting, Parent–Child Sense of Alienation, and Adolescent Adjustment in Chinese Immigrant Families by Kim et al., 2012, hypothesizes that discrepancy between the parent and child acculturation level can have a negative impact on their children such as being less warm towards them, not as controlling and motivated, and less likely to reason with them. The researchers believe that since the parents will have negative attitudes towards their children; therefore they will be less supportive parents which may increase the discrepancy of the parents and children even further which would lead to problems in the children while growing up. The researchers find this important because they take a look at this problem with Chinese immigrants in a longitudinal design, unlike previous research regar...

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...all were very intimate with them. This led to positive outcomes for their children in preschool because they were faced with fewer difficulties. They were well behaved and paid very good attention to the teachers. Their results for their third hypothesis showed the predictors to this parenting style. They found that mothers who had high psychological health led to more warmth and comfort to their children (Cheah et al., 2008).
These findings by Cheah et al. 2008, can aid in my research because they looked at what made young children perform better at school. This findings shows mothers who seem to be more assimilated into American culture which can help show a relationship between Chinese-American parenting styles and adolescents school grades. The results also showed reasoning behind the authoritative parenting style which can also be a great help for my research.