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Parental support is a central construct in research on parenting and parent-adolescent relationships, yet there is little research that examines youths’ interpretation and understanding of parental support. This study examines the construct of parental support, arguing that for Asian immigrant families in the United States it consists of two facets: parental acceptance and parental sacrifice. The study included 941 ninth graders from eight different high schools in the greater Los Angeles area: 598 Chinese Americans and 343 Filipino Americans. Results showed that parental acceptance and sacrifice were similar but distinct factors and that both are part of a larger construct of parental support. In tests of the equivalence of the measures between the two ethnic groups, the larger picture to emerge is that Chinese and Filipino American youth have similar cultural understandings or perspectives of parental acceptance and sacrifice: these constructs work equally well between Chinese and Filipinos. These findings underscore the need for culturally sensitive measures for Asian immigrant families and adolescents. In understanding the parental support of Asian immigrants, this study demonstrates that it is important to incorporate culturally distinctive features of parenting.
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Chapter 2 provides a fuller description of the use of these indices in testing model fit. We also checked whether there was a significant change in X 2(X 2 difference test) between the constrained model and the model when intercepts or loadings were freed. However, as this test is sensitive to sample size, with large sample sizes often resulting in significant differences, we did not rely on this test.
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Chao, R.K., Kaeochinda, K.F. (2010). Parental Sacrifice and Acceptance as Distinct Dimensions of Parental Support Among Chinese and Filipino American Adolescents. In: Russell, S., Crockett, L., Chao, R. (eds) Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships. Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5728-3_4
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