Preface -- Introduction: Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships -- Do Measures of Parenting have the Same Meaning for European, Chinese, and Filipino American Adolescents? Tests of Measurement Equivalence -- Parental Beliefs and their Relation to the Parental Practices of Immigrant Chinese American and European Americans -- Parental Sacrifice and Acceptance as Distinct Dimensions of Parental Support among Chinese and Filipino American Adolescents -- The Meanings of Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality among Chinese American and Filipino American Adolescents -- Interdependent Independence: The Meanings of Autonomy among Chinese American and Filipino American Adolescents -- Conclusions: The Role of Asian American Culture in Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships -- References
Summary
The growing presence of non-European cultures in America brings new challenges to as well as opportunities for parenting research. Whereas particular constructs of parent-child relationships were once considered universal, we now recognize distinct cultural variations. This is especially true in the case of Asian Americans, a population encompassing many diverse ethnicities. Informed by a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies including detailed surveys of teenagers and their parents, Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships focuses on Chinese and Filipino Am
