TY - JOUR
T1 - Chinese American Immigrant Mothers' Discussion of Emotion With Children
T2 - Relations to Cultural Orientations
AU - Tao, Annie
AU - Zhou, Qing
AU - Lau, Nancy
AU - Liu, Howard
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by grants from the Foundation for Child Development Young Scholars Program and University of California–Berkeley Hellman Family Faculty Fund awarded to Qing Zhou, and American Psychological Association Predoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to Annie Tao.
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - This study examined the unique relations of American and Chinese cultural orientations to the content and quality of first-generation Chinese American immigrant mothers' emotion discussion with their school-aged children (age = 5 to 9 years). Mother-child dyads (n = 187) were videotaped during a storytelling task, and various aspects of mothers' emotion talk were coded. Mothers self-reported on their cultural orientations in language proficiency and behaviors (i.e., media use and social affiliations). Controlling for socioeconomic status, mother's age, child age, gender, and generation status, as well as the length, elaborateness, and language (English and/or Chinese) of storytelling, mothers' Chinese orientation was uniquely associated with their lower use of emotion questions and explanations and a lower quality of emotion discussion. Although mothers' American orientation was positively correlated with their use of positive emotion words and emotion explanations, it did not uniquely predict emotion discussion after controlling for other predictors.
AB - This study examined the unique relations of American and Chinese cultural orientations to the content and quality of first-generation Chinese American immigrant mothers' emotion discussion with their school-aged children (age = 5 to 9 years). Mother-child dyads (n = 187) were videotaped during a storytelling task, and various aspects of mothers' emotion talk were coded. Mothers self-reported on their cultural orientations in language proficiency and behaviors (i.e., media use and social affiliations). Controlling for socioeconomic status, mother's age, child age, gender, and generation status, as well as the length, elaborateness, and language (English and/or Chinese) of storytelling, mothers' Chinese orientation was uniquely associated with their lower use of emotion questions and explanations and a lower quality of emotion discussion. Although mothers' American orientation was positively correlated with their use of positive emotion words and emotion explanations, it did not uniquely predict emotion discussion after controlling for other predictors.
KW - cultural orientation
KW - emotion discussion
KW - mother-child
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U2 - 10.1177/0022022112453318
DO - 10.1177/0022022112453318
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84874433911
SN - 0022-0221
VL - 44
SP - 478
EP - 501
JO - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
JF - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
IS - 3
ER -