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12-04-2023 | Empirical Research

Perceptions of Parental Privacy Invasion and Information Management among Chinese Adolescents: Comparing Between- and Within-Family Associations

Auteurs: Shisang Peng, Skyler T. Hawk, Yingqian Wang

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 6/2023

Abstract

The traditional Chinese conceptualization of family privacy is interdependent and hierarchically structured, but mounting evidence suggests that contemporary Chinese youth hold strong desires for individual privacy and respond defensively to perceived parental privacy invasions. The current research examined within-person associations among adolescents’ perceptions of parental privacy invasion, secrecy, and disclosure to parents in the Chinese context. This study collected data from 289 Chinese youth (M_ageT1 = 13.57, SD = 0.63, 50.30% male) at six-month intervals over one year. Random intercept cross-lagged panel modeling (RI-CLPM) showed that stronger perceptions of parental invasion predicted later within-person decreases in adolescents’ disclosure and increases in secrecy. Disclosure and secrecy did not predict later perceptions of parental invasion at the within-person level. The findings suggest that Chinese youth manage privacy reactively and defensively when feelings of invasion occur, by decreasing disclosure and increasing secrecy. Stereotypes portraying Chinese youth as highly deferential to parents’ demands for informational access might not be representative of adolescents in contemporary society.

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Based on one reviewer’s recommendation, an item-by-item examination was conducted for the reliability of secrecy scale; no item deletions meaningfully improved reliability. Therefore, all items were retained in order to maintain consistency with previous research.

To further explore potential gender and location (i.e., urban versus rural areas) differences in family privacy management processes, multi-group analyses were conducted using gender and location as moderators of the time-invariant RI-CLPM. To first examine moderation, fit indices of a fully unconstrained model (i.e., parameters were freely estimated across gender or location) were compared to a fully constrained model (i.e., parameters were constrained as equal between boys and girls or between urban and rural areas). Adding constraints on all parameters across gender did not worsen the model fit, ΔS-Bχ²(18) = 20.75, p = 0.29, ΔCFI = −0.003, ΔRMSEA = 0.02, indicating non-significant differences in effects between boys and girls. Adding constraints on all parameters across urban and rural groups significantly worsened the model fit, ΔS-Bχ²(18) = 31.45, p = 0.03. Additional explorations then separately added constraints to stability paths ΔS-Bχ²(3) = 2.10, p = 0.55, cross-lagged paths ΔS-Bχ²(6) = 2.52, p = 0.87, and between-person correlations ΔS-Bχ²(3) = 4.71, p = 0.20 across locations, with none of these constraints worsening the model’s fit. However, constraints on within-person correlations across location worsened model fit, ΔS-Bχ²(6) = 20.31, p = 0.002, ΔCFI = −0.02, ΔRMSEA = 0.03. Wald tests showed that the within-person correlations between perceived in invasion and disclosure and disclosure and secrecy did not differ between groups (ps > 0.25), but the within-person correlations between perceived invasion and secrecy showed location differences, Wald (2) = 8.78, p = 0.01. Perceived invasion held stronger within-person correlations with secrecy among urban adolescents (B = 0.16, SE = 0.04, p < 0.001), compared to rural youth (B = 0.08, SE = 0.03, p = 0.006). This indicates that urban (compared to rural) adolescents engaged in relatively more secrecy that was typical for them when they concurrently perceived their parents to be more intrusive than usual, but cannot disentangle the direction of these associations.

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Titel: Perceptions of Parental Privacy Invasion and Information Management among Chinese Adolescents: Comparing Between- and Within-Family Associations
Auteurs: Shisang Peng
Skyler T. Hawk
Yingqian Wang
Publicatiedatum: 12-04-2023
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 6/2023
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01771-0

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