Chinese Grandparents-Involvement in Their Adult Children’s Parenting Practices in the United States

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• 作者：Hao-Min Chen ; Denise C. Lewis
• 关键词：Chinese ; Grandparents ; Intergenerational relationships ; Parenting ; Stories ; Ethnographic methods
• 刊名：Contemporary Family Therapy
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：March 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：37
• 期：1
• 页码：58-71
• 全文大小：249 KB
• 参考文献：Bengtson, VL, Acock, AC, Allen, KR, Dilworth-Anderson, P, Klein, DM eds. (2005) Sourcebook of family theory and research. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Clinical Psychology
  Social Sciences
  Health Psychology
  Psychiatry
  Sociology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-3335

文摘

This intergenerational study investigated Chinese grandparents-involvement in their adult children’s parenting practices in the United States. The involvement was family defined and included different kinds of services, conversations, and interactions between family members (regarding adult children’s parenting). Attention was given to the cultural, familial, and individual beliefs as well as the contextual factors that influenced this involvement. We adopted tenets of ethnography as methodology and used semi-structured interviews and observations for data collection. Nine families originally from Mainland China and Taiwan were interviewed. The findings revealed the families-life stories and indicated a positive relationship between grandparents-involvement and their family-defined wellbeing. Further implications included culturally sensitive interventions for clinicians and researchers working with Chinese multi-generational households.