Attitudes toward family obligations among American adolescents with Asian, Latin American, and European backgrounds
Attitudes toward family obligations among American adolescents with Asian, Latin American, and European backgrounds
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-8624.00075
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发表时间：
1999-07-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Lam, M
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作者：
Fuligni, AJ;Tseng, V;Lam, M
本研究旨在调查 800 多名来自菲律宾、中国、墨西哥、中南美洲和欧洲背景的美国十年级（M 年龄 = 15.7 岁）和十二年级（M 年龄 = 17.7 岁）学生对家庭义务的态度。与欧洲背景的同龄人相比，亚洲和拉丁美洲青少年对于协助、尊重和支持家庭的责任拥有更强烈的价值观和更大的期望。这些差异往往很大，并且在青年一代、性别、家庭构成和社会经济背景中都是一致的。虽然强调家庭义务往往与更积极的家庭和同伴关系以及学业动机相关，但对其义务表示最强认可的青少年的学校成绩往往与认可最弱的青少年一样低，甚至更低。然而，没有证据表明态度上的种族差异会在青少年的发展中产生有意义的群体差异。这些研究结果表明，即使在强调青少年自主和独立的社会中，来自具有集体主义传统的家庭的青少年仍保留着父母的家庭主义价值观，并且这些价值观不会对他们的发展产生负面影响。
This study was designed to examine the attitudes toward family obligations among over 800 American tenth (M age = 15.7 years) and twelfth (M age = 17.7 years) grade students from Filipino, Chinese, Mexican, Central and South American, and European backgrounds. Asian and Latin American adolescents possessed stronger values and greater expectations regarding their duty to assist, respect, and support their families than their peers with European backgrounds. These differences tended to be large and were consistent across the youths' generation, gender, family composition, and socioeconomic background. Whereas an emphasis on family obligations tended to be associated with more positive family and peer relationships and academic motivation, adolescents who indicated the strongest endorsement of their obligations tended to receive school grades just as low as or even lower than those with the weakest endorsement. There was no evidence, however, that the ethnic variations in attitudes produced meaningful group differences in the adolescents' development. These findings suggest that even within a society that emphasizes adolescent autonomy and independence, youths from families with collectivistic traditions retain their parents' familistic values and that these values do not have a negative impact upon their development.