Social Values and Relationships with Parents among American College Women of Chinese and European Descent
Title:
Social Values and Relationships with Parents among American College Women of Chinese and European Descent
Author:
Chao, Paul Wink Beryl Gao Stephanie Jones Frances
Appeared in:
International journal of psychology
Paging:
Volume 32 (1997) nr. 3 pages 169-179
Year:
1997-06-01
Contents:
This study compared social values and relationships with parents among American college women of Chinese and European descent.Chinese-American women scored higher on a measure of practicality and pragmatism (mastery), hierarchy, and traditionality. The Euro-American women showed a greater interest in voluntary prosocial behaviour and philanthropy. Both groups of women reported having a sense of self, autonomous of their parents. Withinthe Chinese-American group, ethnic identification and religion, but not generation, moderated scores on a measure of traditionality of outlook regarding issues of law and order and social equality. We discuss the implications of our findings for recent debates in cross-cultural psychology, including the growing challenge tothe individualism-collectivism dimension. Cette etude compare les valeurs sociales et les relations avec les parents chez des etudiantes universitairres americaines d'origine chinoise et europeenne. Les etudiantes sino-americaines obtiennent des cotes plus elevees sur une mesure du sens pratique et du pragmatisme, de la hierarchie et du traditionnalisme. Les etudiantes euro-americaines demontrent un plus grand interet pour le comportement prosocial volontaire et la philanthropie. Les deux groupes rapportent qu'ils se sentent autonomes par rapport a leurs parents. A l'interieur du groupe sino-americain, l'identification ethnique et la religion modulentles scores sur la mesure de traditionnalisme quant a la loi et l'ordre etquanta l'egalite sociale. Les resultats sont discutes en relation avec les debats recents en psychologie interculturelle, notamment la remise en question de la dimension individualisme-collectivisme.
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