Adolescent-parent relations in Hong Kong: Parenting styles, emotional autonomy, and school achievement

Adolescent-parent relations in Hong Kong: Parenting styles, emotional autonomy, and school achievement

• McBride-Chang, Catherine Dept. of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Chang, Lei Dept. of Educational Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Journal of Genetic Psychology, 159(4), 421-436, 1998

Psychology Press

1998

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AF Family & Development, Family Relationship, Reproduction & Child Rearing, Family Education, Parental Involvement

Parent & Teenager Family Hong Kong China

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

This 4-phase study of Hong Kong Chinese adolescent-parent relationships (906 adolescents and 1,091 parents) revealed the following: (a) Adolescents and their parents differ in their perceptions of parenting style. (b) Autonomy is negatively associated with parents' perceived authoritative parenting style and school achievement. (c) Neither parenting style nor measures of parents' beliefs in training their children (R. Chao, 1994) are associated with self-reports of school achievement. However, (d) parents of students from the highest (Band 1) academically oriented schools in Hong Kong rated themselves as higher in authoritativeness and lower in authoritarianism than parents of adolescents from the lowest academically oriented (Band 5) schools. Findings are discussed in relation to posited differences in adolescent-parent relationships in Western and Chinese cultures.
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• English

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• 10.1080/00221329809596162

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