Park Yong S, Vo Leyna P, Tsong Yuying
Department of Counseling, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9490, USA.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2009 Jan;15(1):18-26. doi: 10.1037/a0013378.
The study examined whether family affection (i.e., affective responsiveness, affectionate communication, and affective orientation) protected against the negative effects of perceived parent-child Asian values gap on the quality of their parent relationships for 259 female and 77 male Asian American college students. Asian values gap was higher for women than men, and inversely related to a perceived healthy parent-child relationship for both genders. Participants rated the relationship with their mothers as more positive and affectionate than with their fathers. Both parents were reported to communicate more supportive affection than verbal and nonverbal affection. Affective responsiveness was identified as a protective factor in the father-son relationship whereas verbal affection protected the mother-daughter relationship. The study also revealed that daughters' affective orientation had beneficial effects on the father-daughter relationship at lower levels of Asian values gap. Clinical implications and directions for future research are discussed.
该研究调查了亲情（即情感反应性、亲情沟通和情感取向）是否能保护259名亚裔美国女大学生和77名亚裔美国男大学生免受感知到的亲子亚洲价值观差距对其亲子关系质量的负面影响。女性的亚洲价值观差距高于男性，且与两性感知到的健康亲子关系呈负相关。参与者对与母亲的关系评价比对与父亲的关系更积极、更亲密。据报告，父母双方都表现出更多支持性的情感，而非言语和非言语情感。情感反应性被确定为父子关系中的一个保护因素，而言语情感则保护了母女关系。该研究还表明，在亚洲价值观差距较低的情况下，女儿的情感取向对父女关系有有益影响。文中讨论了临床意义和未来研究方向。
