Department of Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2013 Oct;19(4):424-34. doi: 10.1037/a0032820. Epub 2013 Jul 8.
Research suggests that parental control may be motivated by various socialization goals and contributes to children's adjustment in diverse ways depending on cultural context. The present study examined whether parental psychological control was differentially related to children's emotional expressivity in a sample of 127 Korean, Asian American (AA), and European American (EA) preschoolers. Results indicated that Korean and AA parents endorsed more parental control (emotion suppression, shaming) than EA parents. Similarly, Korean and AA children displayed less observable sadness and exuberance during emotion-eliciting tasks than EA children. Furthermore, moderation analyses revealed that for EA families, parental control was positively correlated with child anger and exuberance; however, the associations were not significant for AA and Korean families.
研究表明，父母控制可能受到各种社会化目标的驱动，并根据文化背景以不同的方式促进孩子的适应。本研究在 127 名韩国、亚裔美国人和欧裔美籍学龄前儿童样本中，考察了父母心理控制是否与儿童的情绪表达存在差异相关。结果表明，韩国和亚裔美国父母比欧裔美籍父母更支持父母控制（情绪抑制、羞辱）。同样，在情绪诱发任务中，韩国和亚裔美国儿童的悲伤和欢乐等可观察情绪表现也少于欧裔美籍儿童。此外，调节分析表明，对于欧裔美籍家庭，父母控制与儿童愤怒和欢乐呈正相关；然而，对于亚裔美国和韩国家庭，这种关联并不显著。
