Cultural, Social, and Family Processes Towards Adolescents' Academic Development in Chinese American Families.

Academic success is a key developmental competency that is strongly emphasized within Chinese American families, stressing the need to understand the cultural, social, and family processes that influence its development among Chinese American youth. The current study took an ecological and family sy...

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Publicado en:Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 54; no. 11; pp. 2730 - 2751
Autores principales: Lo, Albert Y. H., Wang, Yijie, Kim, Su Yeong
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Publicado: Springer Nature Nov2025
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          Lo, Albert Y. H.
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          https://ror.org/03vek6s52 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
          https://ror.org/05hs6h993 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
          https://ror.org/00hj54h04 Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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        United States
        Acculturation
        Culture
        Family relations
        Parenting
        Social context
        Academic achievement
        Psychological stress
        Adolescence
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          Family relations
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        Chinese American
        Cultural orientation
        Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology
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      ab: Academic success is a key developmental competency that is strongly emphasized within Chinese American families, stressing the need to understand the cultural, social, and family processes that influence its development among Chinese American youth. The current study took an ecological and family systems approach in investigating the development of Chinese American adolescents' high school grade point averages (GPA) from early to middle adolescence. Participants included fathers, mothers, and adolescents (54% female, 46% male) from Waves 1 (W1; early adolescence) and 2 (W2; middle adolescence) of a study on 444 Chinese American families from a northern urban area on the west coast of the United States (US). Adolescents were 12 to 15 years old at W1 (data collection in 2002), with W2 data collection occurring approximately four years later (2006). Structural equation modeling examined simultaneous paths from fathers' and mothers' cultural orientations to adolescents' GPAs four years later, through fathers' and mothers' acculturative stress, fathers' and mothers' supportive parenting behaviors, and combined parent-adolescent alienation. Cultural orientation, stress, parenting, and alienation were assessed through parent-report and adolescent-report measures, whereas GPA was taken from school transcripts. Wald's tests examined differences between mother-adolescent and father-adolescent processes. Mothers' bicultural and more US cultural orientations (compared to more Chinese) indirectly predicted greater increases in adolescents' GPAs, through lower mothers' acculturative stress, greater mothers' supportive parenting behaviors, and lower alienation. Parallel father indirect effects were not significant. Results demonstrate how Chinese American adolescents' academic achievement is influenced by their families' experiences across cultural, social, and family systems, with fathers and mothers playing significantly different roles. Further investigations of the ways parents influence their child's academic development, especially those specifically relevant to Chinese American fathers, are needed.
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