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Understanding Chinese American Adolescents' Developmental Outcomes: Insights From the Family Stress Model
Author(s) -
Benner Aprile D.,
Kim Su Yeong
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2009.00629.x
Subject(s) - psychology , generalizability theory , hostility , developmental psychology , socioeconomic status , parenting styles , path analysis (statistics) , adolescent development , stress (linguistics) , family income , clinical psychology , demography , population , statistics , linguistics , mathematics , philosophy , sociology , economics , economic growth
In this brief report, we investigated whether the Family Stress Model could be replicated with a sample of Chinese American families. Path analyses with 444 adolescents and their parents provided support for the model's generalizability. Specifically, mothers' and fathers' reports of economic status (i.e., income, financial, and job instability) were associated with parents' economic stress. Economic stress and economic status were related to parental depressive symptoms, which, in turn, were associated with more hostile and coercive parenting, less nurturing and involved parenting, and greater interparental hostility. Finally, mothers' hostile and coercive parenting was directly related to both adolescents' academic and sociobehavioral outcomes, whereas fathers' nurturing and involved parenting was related to academic but not sociobehavioral outcomes.