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This chapter reports basic psychometric properties of underused and newly developed measures of family process among Filipino and Korean American families and further examines their relations to several existing conventional measures of family process to describe culturally unique as well as universal aspects of family process among the target subgroups of Asian American families. In so doing, this study provides a unique understanding of how Filipino and Korean American parenting styles converge and diverge from mainstream culture while modifying traditional cultural elements of the parenting process. For example, Filipino American parents appear to practice an authoritative style of parenting, reporting more explicit and implicit expressions of affection and showing more hands-on involvement in their children’s socialization than do Korean American parents. At the same time, they also score more highly on restrictive and authoritarian measures than Korean Americans. This study presents evidence that the characteristics of presumed collectivist cultures in America are highly variable, and that Baumrind’s typology does not necessarily correlate with expected parenting practices within such collectivist cultures.
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We reduced this multiple-item scale to a single item scale by creating a binary item in which 0 indicates no use of any indirect expression of affection behaviors and 1 indicates one or more use of the described behaviors. Although each item of the scale was highly endorsed and is a valid indicator of the construct, the multiple item scale had Cronbach alpha of 0.436 and is not likely to work as a coherent scale. In other words, inter-item correlations were low, indicating that parents widely vary in how they express their affection indirectly (Choi, Kim, Pekelnicky, et al., 2013).
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The survey asked participants “When you say “my family,” I mostly mean ______ (Check ALL that applies).” The response categories were my spouse/partner and children, my parents and siblings, my spouse’s/partner’s parents and siblings, my grandparents of father side, my grandparents of mother side, uncles and aunts, cousins, distant relatives (e.g., cousin’s cousin, in-law’s cousin’s children, my or your child’s godparents, and close family friends (not-blood or marriage related but very close to my family). The mean of the boundary was obtained by summing the number of categories checked divided by the sample size.
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Choi, Y., Park, M., Lee, J.P., Kim, T.Y., Tan, K. (2017). Culture and Family Process: Examination of Culture-Specific Family Process via Development of New Parenting Measures Among Filipino and Korean American Families with Adolescents. In: Choi, Y., Hahm, H. (eds) Asian American Parenting. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63136-3_3
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