Chinese American Adults' Relationship with Their Parents
- 1 March 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Social Psychiatry
- Vol. 40 (1) , 35-45
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002076409404000104
Abstract
This investigation examines the relationship between Chinese American adults and their parents. A group of 143 American- and foreign-born Chinese Americans residing in San Francisco participated in the study. Contact with parents was found to be very frequent (two to three times a week), and was primarily mediated by geographic proximity. Immigrant women maintained significantly more frequent contact with their parents than American-born women. Intimacy was primarily predicted by respondent's understanding of his/her mother. Implications of the findings are discussed.Keywords
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