The Relationship Between Perceived Parental Acceptance Rejection And Academic Performance Of Korean American Children

Author : KyongJoo Hong
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book "Cause My Parents Love Me" written by KyongJoo Hong and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite increasing research on Korean immigrants’ parental involvement, little is known about links between immigrant parents’ acculturation and their children’s academic and psychological outcomes through parental academic socialization and their children’s perceptions of parental warmth. In a mixed method design, 104 Korean American mother-child dyads participated in the quantitative part of the study, and 7 of these dyads were interviewed. Using a moderated mediation model, I investigated the conditional nature of parental warmth and children’s acculturation attitudes in the path from the mothers’ acculturation to the children’s academic and psychological outcomes via their mothers’ academic socialization. Direct relationships and strong correlations exist between variables of interest; however, the moderated mediation model was not supported. The qualitative part of the analysis produced a rich description of the process of academic socialization and parent-child interactions in Korean immigrant families. Korean immigrant children did not psychologically suffer from mothers’ emphasis on hard work but perceived it as a sign of parental love for them. Thus, I further investigated mothers’ acculturation effects to determine whether they transmitted to children’s psychological outcomes—not conditionally but simultaneously through a serial mediation model. This model included mother’s attitude toward Korean culture as the predictor, mother’s academic socialization of emphasis on hard work as the first mediator, maternal warmth as the second mediator, and child’s psychological adjustment issues as the outcome variable. The overall serial mediation model was significant. The mediation model—only with the first mediator—revealed that higher levels of mother’s attitude toward Korean culture significantly increased mother’s emphasis on hard work, and that decreased child’s psychological adjustment issues. However, when the second mediator was included in the model, mother’s attitude toward Korean culture was associated with increased mother’s emphasis on hard work, which was associated with decreased maternal warmth, and that was linked to increased child’s psychological adjustment issues. The current study provides a more dynamic and multidimensional understanding regarding the relationship between parental acculturation and child’s academic and psychological outcomes through parental academic socialization and parental warmth. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are discussed