Stability and Change in Adjustment Profiles Among Chinese American Adolescents: The Role of Parenting

Su Yeong Kim; Yijie Wang; Yishan Shen; Yang Hou

doi:10.1007/s10964-015-0303-3

Stability and Change in Adjustment Profiles Among Chinese American Adolescents: The Role of Parenting

Su Yeong Kim
, Yijie Wang
, Yishan Shen
, Yang Hou

Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment

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Abstract

Asian American adolescents are often depicted as academically successful but psychologically distressed, a pattern known as the achievement/adjustment paradox. In a sample of 444 Chinese American adolescents (54 % females), we identified three distinct patterns of adjustment in early adolescence, middle adolescence, and emerging adulthood: the well-adjusted group, which was the largest, exhibited high achievement and low psychological distress; the poorly-adjusted group exhibited poor achievement and moderate distress; and the paradox group exhibited relatively high achievement and high distress. More than half of the adolescents remained in the same profile over time. Adolescents with supportive parents were more likely to stay well-adjusted, and those with “tiger” parents were more likely to stay in the paradox group over time. The present study focused on the critical role of parenting in early adolescence, highlighting variations in Chinese American adolescents’ adjustment in multiple domains over time.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1735-1751
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Volume	44
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-015-0303-3
State	Published - Sep 8 2015

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Funding

Support for this research was provided through awards to Su Yeong Kim from (1) Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD 5R03HD051629-02. (2) Office of the Vice President for Research Grant/Special Research Grant from the University of Texas at Austin. (3) Jacobs Foundation Young Investigator Grant. (4) American Psychological Association Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs, Promoting Psychological Research and Training on Health Disparities Issues at Ethnic Minority Serving Institutions Grant. (5) American Psychological Foundation/Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology, Ruth G. and Joseph D. Matarazzo Grant. (6) California Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Extended Education Fund. (7) American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Massachusetts Avenue Building Assets Fund, and (8) Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD 5R24HD042849-13 grant awarded to the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

Funders	Funder number
Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD	5R24HD042849-13
Massachusetts Avenue Building Assets Fund
NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research
NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research	R03HD051629
NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
University of Texas at Austin

Keywords

Achievement-adjustment paradox
Chinese American
Parenting
Stability and change

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Psychology
Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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