Time-varying associations of parent–adolescent cultural conflict and youth adjustment among Chinese American families
- The purpose of this study was to examine time-varying associations of parent-adolescent cultural conflict with depressive symptoms and grade point average (GPA) among Chinese Americans from ages 11-22. We pooled two independently collected longitudinal data sets (N = 760 at Wave 1) and used time-varying effect modeling (TVEM) to show that the frequency of parent-adolescent conflict increased during early adolescence (12 years), peaked at mid adolescence (16 years), and gradually decreased throughout late adolescence and young adulthood. In general, parent-adolescent conflict was associated with negative adjustment (more depressive symptoms and lower GPA) more strongly during mid-to late-adolescence (15 to 17 years) compared with other developmental periods. These time-varying associations differed slightly by gender, at least for GPA. Our findings provide important developmental knowledge of parent-adolescent conflict for Chinese American youth and suggest that attention to conflict and links to adjustment is especially relevantThe purpose of this study was to examine time-varying associations of parent-adolescent cultural conflict with depressive symptoms and grade point average (GPA) among Chinese Americans from ages 11-22. We pooled two independently collected longitudinal data sets (N = 760 at Wave 1) and used time-varying effect modeling (TVEM) to show that the frequency of parent-adolescent conflict increased during early adolescence (12 years), peaked at mid adolescence (16 years), and gradually decreased throughout late adolescence and young adulthood. In general, parent-adolescent conflict was associated with negative adjustment (more depressive symptoms and lower GPA) more strongly during mid-to late-adolescence (15 to 17 years) compared with other developmental periods. These time-varying associations differed slightly by gender, at least for GPA. Our findings provide important developmental knowledge of parent-adolescent conflict for Chinese American youth and suggest that attention to conflict and links to adjustment is especially relevant during mid to late adolescence. Our study also illustrates the usefulness of integrative data analysis and TVEM to investigate how the strength of conflict-adjustment associations might change throughout development.…
| Author details: | Linda P. JuangORCiDGND, Yang Hou, Sara Douglass Bayless, Su Yeong Kim |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000475 |
| ISSN: | 0012-1649 |
| ISSN: | 1939-0599 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29239636 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Developmental psychology |
| Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
| Place of publishing: | Washington |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2017/12/14 |
| Publication year: | 2017 |
| Release date: | 2021/12/06 |
| Tag: | Chinese American; GPA; adolescence; depressive symptoms; parent-adolescent cultural conflict |
| Volume: | 54 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Number of pages: | 12 |
| First page: | 938 |
| Last Page: | 949 |
| Funding institution: | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) [5R03HD051629-02, 2P2C-HD042849-16]; Office of the Vice President for Research Grant/Special Research Grant from the University of Texas at Austin; Jacobs Foundation Young Investigator Grant; American Psychological Association Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs, Promoting Psychological Research and Training on Health Disparities Issues at Ethnic Minority Serving Institutions Grant; American Psychological Foundation/Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology, Ruth G. and Joseph D. Matarazzo Grant; California Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Extended Education Fund; American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Massachusetts Avenue Building Assets Fund; National Institute of Health, Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program [1R24MH06157301A1] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Bronze Open-Access |
