Longitudinal Pathways Linking Racial Discrimination and Chinese American Mothers' Parenting

Autor/inn/en	Zong, Xiaoli; Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Ren, Huiguang; Hart, Craig H.
Titel	Longitudinal Pathways Linking Racial Discrimination and Chinese American Mothers' Parenting
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 59 (2023) 11, S.2119-2132 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zong, Xiaoli) ORCID (Cheah, Charissa S. L.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001608
Schlagwörter	Racial Discrimination; Chinese Americans; Mothers; Parenting Styles; Depression (Psychology); Acculturation; Cultural Differences; Young Children; Stress Variables; District of Columbia; Maryland (Baltimore); Beck Depression Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Racial bias; Rassismus; Asian immigrant; Chinese; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; Chinesen; USA; Mother; Mutter; Akkulturation; Kultureller Unterschied; Frühe Kindheit
Abstract	Racial discrimination is a salient and chronic stressor for ethnic minority parents that can negatively impact their parenting. The present study used a short-term longitudinal design to examine the link between Chinese American mothers' stressful experiences of racial discrimination and their authoritarian parenting practices, the mediating role of mothers' depressive symptoms, and the moderating role of their behavioral acculturation toward American and Chinese cultures in these associations (i.e., behavioral participation in the American culture and behavioral maintenance of Chinese culture). Participants were 143 first-generation Chinese American mothers (M[subscript age] = 38.0 years) with preschool-age children (M[subscript age] = 4.6 years; 50% girls). Mothers reported their racial discrimination stress, depressive symptoms, American and Chinese behavioral acculturation, and authoritarian parenting across two time points over a 6-month interval. A moderated mediation model was conducted using structural equation modeling to test the hypothesized associations. Chinese American mothers' depressive symptoms mediated the association between racial discrimination stress and authoritarian parenting. The path between racial discrimination stress and depressive symptoms and the indirect effect of racial discrimination stress on authoritarian parenting were buffered by mothers' behavioral acculturation toward American culture and exacerbated by their behavioral acculturation toward Chinese culture. This study provides the first longitudinal evidence linking Chinese American mothers' experiences of racial discrimination and their negative parenting over time as well as mediating and moderating factors underlying this process. Our findings highlight the need for systemic efforts addressing racial inequalities and fostering positive development in Asian Americans and other marginalized families. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01