Parental Socialization and Development of Chinese Youths: A Multivariate and Comparative Approach

Jerf W. K. Yeung, Eileen Y. H. Tsang and Hui-Fang Chen
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Jerf W. K. Yeung: Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Eileen Y. H. Tsang: Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Hui-Fang Chen: Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 10, 1-16

Abstract: Parental socialization has been recently reported as a multifaceted concept, which includes parenting practices and family processes. Nevertheless, prior family research generally treated parental socialization tantamount to parenting behavior only and overlooked its different effects on multiple youth outcomes simultaneously, especially in the Chinese population. This study, with a sample of 223 Chinese parent-youth dyads (80.7% mothers; 55.6% male youths; mean age = 16.7 years), found that both authoritative parenting and positive family processes, as measured by a multi-informant approach, significantly predicted higher self-esteem, self-control, future orientation, other perspective taking and lower externalizing problem behavior of Chinese youths concomitantly. Furthermore, youth self-esteem was found to significantly mediate the effects of authoritative parenting and positive family processes on their self-control, future orientation, other perspective taking and externalizing problem behavior, and different facets of parental socialization significantly predicted the youth outcomes differentially. Results of this study highlight importance of considering the multifaceted nature of parental socialization and interrelations of youth development.

Keywords: authoritative parenting; positive family processes; multi-informant approach; youth development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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