Asian Parenting

Auteur

Xinyin Chen is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. His research interest is mainly in parenting, children's and adolescents' socioemotional functioning (e.g., shyness-inhibition, social competence, depression), social relationships, and family processes from a cultural-contextual perspective. With international collaborators, he has conducted a series of large-scale, longitudinal projects in Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, South Korea, and the United States. His recent work has tapped the implications of macro-level societal changes for human development in Asian societies.

Texte du rabat

Asian Parenting provides a comprehensive and scholarly discussion of the distinct features, meanings, and implications for human development of contemporary Asian parenting, beyond Western theoretical frameworks.

Contenu

1. Culture and Parenting in Asian Societies 2. Asian Parenting: Concepts and Measurement 3. Parenting Goals and Values in Asian Cultures 4. Parental Socialisation Beliefs and Practices in the Chinese Context 5. Parenting in changing social and economic contexts in Asian Societies 6. Care-Based Power-Assertive Parenting in Changing Asian Societies 7. Asian Parenting and Emotional Development in a Multi-level Analysis Framework 8. Parental Emotion-Related Socialization in Asian Families 9. Fathers in Asian Families: (Changing) Contexts of Traditions, Cultures, and Religions 10. East Asian Parenting and Children's Learning and Education 11. Parenting and Behavior Problems of Children and Adolescents in Asian Families 12. Childrearing in Nepal 13. Changes and Preservation of Tradition in Asian Parenting: Comparisons of Family Process among South Korean, Korean American, and Korean Chinese Families 14. Filial piety, parent-child relationships, and parenting in Taiwan 15. Parenting in Majority World Asian Countries