Effects of Family Obligation Values and Autonomy Support on Internalizing Symptoms of Vietnamese-American and European-American Adolescents

The authors investigated the relationship between adolescent-parent differences in the endorsement of family obligations and adolescent life satisfaction, in families from two differing cultural backgrounds. Surveys were completed by 238 adolescents and their parents, including 135 European-American families and 103 Vietnamese-American families. We examined the relationship between discrepancies and life satisfaction and the moderating effect of cultural background on this relationship. Results showed that adolescent-parent discrepancies were a strong negative predictor of life satisfaction, across two groups that differ both culturally and demographically. The effect was not moderated by cultural background.

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Causal Reasoning about Illness: A Comparison between European- and Vietnamese-American Children

Journal of Cognition and Culture ◽

10.1163/156853704323074750 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 51-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Karl Rosengren ◽

Simone Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Causal Reasoning ◽

Causal Attributions ◽

Vietnamese Americans ◽

European American ◽

Illness Beliefs ◽

Cultural Groups ◽

Dominant Form ◽

Vietnamese American ◽

Different Ages ◽

American Children

AbstractThese studies examine children's understanding of the causes of illness cross-culturally. In Study 1, European- and Vietnamese-American 4- to 5-year-olds, 6- to 7-year-olds, and adults were asked to make causal attributions for a series of illness related stories. In Study 2, European- and Vietnamese-American 6- to 7-year-olds and adults were asked about the causes and remedies of illness. The results show that biological causality was the dominant form of reasoning about illness across the different ages and cultural groups, although there was some acceptance of magical causality among the Vietnamese-Americans (children and adults) and the European-American children. These results are discussed in terms of the coherence of illness beliefs.

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Age differences in spirituality, mystical experiences and wisdom

Ageing and Society ◽

10.1017/s0144686x0700685x ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 383-411 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

THAO N. LE

Keyword(s):

Adult Students ◽

Practical Wisdom ◽

Expert Knowledge ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Self Report ◽

European American ◽

Spiritual Community ◽

Vietnamese American ◽

Mystical Experiences ◽

Transcendent Wisdom

ABSTRACTAlthough philosophical and contemplative traditions suggest that religiousness and spirituality are associated with wisdom, few empirical studies have examined the relationship. This paper investigates the associations between spirituality and mystical experiences and two types of wisdom: practical wisdom, primarily the ability to understand and resolve difficult life dilemmas (or an ‘expert’ knowledge system and the highest level of synthesised mental functioning), and transcendent wisdom, which goes beyond personal self-interests, biases and perceptions, and involves the ability to see things or others as they are directly. Two studies are reported. The first is of mostly older European-American and Vietnamese-American adults. It was found that mystical experiences promoted transcendent wisdom, but that the effect was moderated by self-enhancement values of power, status and achievement. The Vietnamese-American adults who reported mystical experiences and endorsed high self-enhancement values scored the lowest on transcendent wisdom. Being part of a religious or spiritual community positively associated with transcendent wisdom. On the other hand, religiousness, spirituality and mystical experiences did not relate to practical wisdom. The second study was of European-American and Vietnamese-American young adult students. It found that institutional and personal religious/spiritual practice was associated with two self-report measures of wisdom. Regardless of the mechanisms and processes associated with spirituality and mystical experiences, its fruits appear to be associated with transcendent wisdom.

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Play Interactions between Children with Autism and their Siblings in a European American and a Vietnamese American Family

Child Studies in Diverse Contexts ◽

10.5723/csdc.2012.2.1.011 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 11-27

Author(s):

Kara D. Sage ◽

Brinda Jegatheesan

Keyword(s):

Children With Autism ◽

European American ◽

American Family ◽

Vietnamese American ◽

Play Interactions

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Cost and Family Obligation in Everyday Sacrifice to Parents Among European American and Chinese Emerging Adults

Cross-Cultural Research ◽

10.1177/1069397119863422 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 54 (2-3) ◽

pp. 156-179 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zhenlan Wang ◽

Joan G. Miller

Keyword(s):

Cultural Studies ◽

Emerging Adults ◽

Real Life ◽

Limited Attention ◽

European American ◽

Experiment Study ◽

Family Obligation ◽

European Americans ◽

Cultural Research ◽

The Cost

Cultural studies on sacrifices made by emerging adults have given limited attention to the cost involved. We addressed this issue in studies among U.S. and Chinese emerging adults. Assessing real-life instances of sacrifice, Study 1 ( N = 130) showed that Chinese sacrifice for their parents in a higher cost way than do European Americans. In a vignette-based experiment, Study 2 ( N = 254) demonstrated that family obligation motivates high-cost sacrifice among Chinese emerging adults but not among European American emerging adults. The findings underscore the importance in cultural research of recognizing the distinctive impact of cultural and immigration effects, while highlighting methodological limitations associated with the use of scale measures.

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Tobacco Smoking and Antisocial Deviance among Vietnamese, Vietnamese-American, and European-American Adolescents

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology ◽

10.1007/s10802-018-0416-8 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 59-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bahr Weiss ◽

Tam Nguyen ◽

Lam Trung ◽

Victoria Ngo ◽

Anna Lau

Keyword(s):

Tobacco Smoking ◽

European American ◽

Vietnamese American

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Diminished Protective Effects of Household Income on Internalizing Symptoms among African American than European American Pre-Adolescents

Journal of Economics, Trade and Marketing Management ◽

10.22158/jetmm.v2n4p38 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. p38

Author(s):

Shervin Assari ◽

Sondos Islam

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

African Americans ◽

Household Income ◽

Internalizing Symptoms ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Future Research ◽

European American ◽

Protective Effects ◽

High Household Income

Aim: To investigate the differential role of race on the effect of household income on pre-adolescents’ internalizing symptoms in a national sample of U.S. pre-adolescents. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study that used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Wave 1 ABCD data included 5,913 adolescents between ages 9 and 10 years old. The independent variable was household income. The primary outcome was internalizing symptoms measured by the teacher report of the Brief Problem Monitor (BPM) scale. Results: Overall, high household income was associated with lower levels of pre-adolescents internalizing symptoms. Race showed statistically significant interaction with household income on pre-adolescents’ internalizing symptoms, controlling for all confounders, indicating weaker protective effect of high household income on internalizing symptoms for African American than European pre-adolescents. Conclusion: High household income is a more salient protective factor against internalizing symptoms of socially privileged European American pre-adolescents than of historically marginalized African Americans pre-adolescents. Elimination of internalizing behavioral gaps across racial groups requires more than equalizing socioeconomic status. Future research should study the moderating role of institutional and structural racism experienced by African American families across all income levels. Such research may explain why pre-adolescent African Americans with high household income remain at high risk of internalizing symptoms.

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Culture Moderates the Relationship between Family Obligation Values and the Outcomes of Korean and European American College Students

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology ◽

10.1177/0022022120933682 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 51 (6) ◽

pp. 511-525

Author(s):

Haein Oh ◽

Toni Falbo ◽

Kejin Lee

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Well Being ◽

Self Determination Theory ◽

Self Determination ◽

European American ◽

Family Obligation ◽

European Americans ◽

American Students ◽

The Relationship

Family obligation values have been described as an important element of collectivistic cultures that are related to the development of positive emotional well-being and motivation in high school and college students. The present study tested the hypothesis that culture moderates the relationship between family obligation values and the outcomes of Korean ( n = 249) and European American ( n = 251) college students. The results provided support for this hypothesis. Specifically, for Koreans, family obligation values were significantly and positively correlated with descriptions of parents as being more supportive of the self-determination of their children, which was found to mediate the relationship between family obligation values and student outcomes. Furthermore, family obligation values were more strongly associated with the motivation, self-esteem, and depression of Koreans than European Americans. European American students expressed lower family obligation values and the intensity of these values were unrelated to their emotional well-being. Family obligation values were positively correlated with reports of self-determined motivation for Korean students, and negatively correlated with reports of self-determined motivation for European American students. The results are discussed in terms of cultural moderation and self-determination theory.

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