Immigrant Chinese Preschooler's Social Development: The Role of Parents and Socia

中国学龄前移民的社会发展：父母和社会的角色

• 批准号: 7788371
• 负责人: Charissa SL Cheah
• 金额: $ 7.19万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7788371
• 关键词: Acculturation; Advocacy; Age; Aggressive behavior; American; Anxiety; Asian Americans; Asians; Behavior; Behavioral; Berry; Characteristics; Child; Chinese American; Chinese People; Communities; Consult; Data; Development; Emotional; Ethnic group; Family; Fathers; Female Adolescents; Frequencies; Gender; Home environment; Immigrant; Immigration; Indigenous; Individual; Investigation; Link; Literature; Mediating; Mental Depression; Modeling; Mothers; Neighborhoods; Nursery Schools; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Peer Group; Policy Developments; Population; Practice Management; Public Health; Research; Role; Sampling; Services; Shame; Social Adjustment; Social Development; Social Environment; Social Network; Social skills development; Social support; Staging; Stress; Training; United States; Well in self; Withdrawal; Youth; depressive symptoms; experience; neglect; parental role; peer; psychologic; psychosocial; psychosocial adjustment; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; social; social skills; success; suicidal risk; teacher; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Asians are one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, growing by 48% (from 6.9 million to 10.2 million) compared to an increase of 13.2% for the total population between 1990 and 2000. As of 2000, 3.6% of the total U.S. population was Asian, with Chinese being the largest Asian ethnic group. Recent research indicates that Chinese American youth and adults experience greater psychological and social emotional difficulties than their Euro-American counterparts, including anxiety, depression and suicidal risk. Although early parenting practices associated with preschoolers' social development have been consistently shown to predict later psychosocial adjustment in North American samples, the specific parenting practices associated with Chinese immigrant preschoolers' social skill development have yet to be examined. Moreover, the unique role of immigrant Chinese father and mothers has been neglected. Although immigration may present tremendous parenting challenges to families, successful or unsuccessful parenting is dependent on the socio-cultural context and parents' characteristics. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the role of parenting in mediating the effects of immigrant Chinese parents' characteristics and the social context on their children's social skills (aggression, withdrawal, prosocial behaviors). Specifically, we aim to analyze the mediating role of parenting (parenting styles, indigenous practices, management of their children's social network) in the association between (1) psychological and behavioral acculturation, (2) psychological well-being, (3) stress, (4) social support network, (5) Chinese context, and child behavioral outcomes. These aims will be examined using cross-sectional data from immigrant Chinese fathers and mothers of 200 preschoolers regarding their characteristics, social context, and parenting. Children's aggressive, withdrawn/solitary, and prosocial behaviors will be rated by their preschool teachers. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The benefits to public health of the proposed research include contributing to the literature on the rapidly increasing population of immigrant Chinese families in the US, particularly in regions with smaller existing Chinese communities. Given that Chinese American youth experience greater psychological and social emotional difficulties than their Euro-American counterparts (including anxiety, depression and suicidal risk), findings from this investigation will provide needed information on individual and sociocultural factors related to Chinese immigrant parenting of preschoolers and subsequent child behavioral outcomes that may set the stage for later psychosocial adjustment difficulties and successes. These results will contribute important scientific and practical information to guide community, regional, and national planning, policy development and advocacy regarding the healthy adaptation of immigrant children and their parents.

描述(申请人提供)：亚洲人是美国增长最快的种族之一，增长了48%(从690万人增加到1020万人)，而在1990年至2000年期间，总人口增长了13.2%。截至2000年，亚裔占美国总人口的3.6%，其中华人是最大的亚裔群体。最近的研究表明，华裔美国青年和成年人比欧美青年和成年人经历了更大的心理和社会情感困难，包括焦虑、抑郁和自杀风险。尽管在北美的样本中，与学龄前儿童社交发展相关的早期育儿做法一直被证明可以预测未来的心理社会适应，但与中国移民学龄前儿童社交技能发展相关的具体育儿做法尚未得到检验。此外，移民父母的独特作用也被忽视了。尽管移民可能会给家庭带来巨大的育儿挑战，但成功或失败的育儿取决于社会文化背景和父母的特征。因此，本研究的目的是考察父母教养方式在华裔移民父母特征和社会环境对子女社交技能(攻击性、退缩、亲社会行为)的影响中的作用。具体地说，我们旨在分析父母教养方式(父母教养方式、本土做法、子女社会网络管理)在(1)心理和行为适应、(2)心理幸福感、(3)压力、(4)社会支持网络、(5)中国背景和儿童行为结果之间的关系中的中介作用。这些目标将使用来自200名学龄前儿童的中国移民父亲和母亲的横截面数据进行检验，这些数据涉及他们的特征、社会背景和育儿方式。儿童的攻击性、孤僻/孤独性和亲社会行为将由他们的学龄前教师进行评级。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的研究对公共卫生的好处包括为有关美国移民华裔家庭人口迅速增长的文献做出贡献，特别是在现有华人社区较小的地区。鉴于华裔美国青少年经历了比欧美青少年更大的心理和社会情绪困难(包括焦虑、抑郁和自杀风险)，本次调查的结果将提供必要的信息，了解与华裔移民养育学龄前儿童有关的个人和社会文化因素，以及随后的儿童行为结果，为以后的心理社会适应困难和成功奠定基础。这些成果将有助于为指导社区、区域和国家规划、政策制定和宣传移民儿童及其父母的健康适应提供重要的科学和实用信息。