Table Of ContentAdvances in Immigrant Family Research
Susan S. Chuang
Catherine L. Costigan Editors
Parental Roles
and Relationships
in Immigrant
Families
An International Approach
Advances in Immigrant Family Research
Series Editor
Susan S. Chuang
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Parental Roles
and Relationships
in Immigrant Families
An International Approach
Editors
Susan S. Chuang Catherine L. Costigan
Department of Family Relations Department of Psychology
and Applied Nutrition University of Victoria
University of Guelph Victoria, BC, Canada
Guelph, ON, Canada
Advances in Immigrant Family Research
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To my Dad who makes me laugh every day
and my beloved Mom who is with us in spirit.
Susan S. Chuang
To my parents and daughter, who have
taught me so much about parenting, and to
all the parents, by choice or by fate, who
have courageously built a life in a new land.
Catherine L. Costigan
To all of the immigrant families who have
welcomed us into their lives to better our
understanding of parenting and parent–child
relationships!
Susan S. Chuang and Catherine L. Costigan
Contents
1 Current Perspectives on Family Dynamics and Relationships:
The Intersection of Culture and Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Susan S. Chuang and Catherine L. Costigan
Part I Parental Involvement and Practices
2 Where Are You Daddy?: An Exploration of Father Involvement
in Chinese Families in Canada and Mainland China . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Susan S. Chuang and Meihua Zhu
3 The Complexities of Parental Control Among Chinese American
Mothers: The Role of Acculturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Charissa S. L. Cheah, Nan Zhou, Christy Y. Y. Leung,
and Kathy T. T. Vu
4 Dominican Parenting and Early Childhood Functioning:
A Comparison Study of Immigrant Families in the USA
and Families in Their Country of Origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Esther J. Calzada, Carolina Hausmann-Stabile,
R. Gabriela Barajas- Gonzalez, Keng-Yen Huang,
and Miguel E. Hernandez
Part II Parenting and Children’s Early Development and Academics
5 Parental Socialization of Emotion and Child Functioning
Among Indian American Families: Consideration of Cultural
Factors and Different Modes of Socialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Vaishali V. Raval, Bethany L. Walker, and Suchi S. Daga
6 Specialization, Coordination, and Developmental Sequelae
of Mother-Infant Person- and Object-Directed Interactions
in American Immigrant Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Linda R. Cote and Marc H. Bornstein
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7 How Do Children Learn Mathematics? Chinese
and Latina Immigrant Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Susan Sonnenschein, Claudia Galindo, Cassandra L. Simons,
Shari R. Metzger, Joy A. Thompson, and May F. Chung
Part III Acculturation Factors, Processes, and Family Dynamics
8 Acculturation-Related Stressors and Individual Adjustment
in Asian American Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Yang Hou and Su Yeong Kim
9 Parenting Among Mainland Chinese Immigrant Mothers
in Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Florrie Fei-Yin Ng, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda,
and Irene Nga-Lam Sze
10 Parenting Stress and Depressive Symptoms of Immigrant
and Nonimmigrant Families in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Radosveta Dimitrova
11 Family Solidarity: The Generation Gap in Immigrants
in the Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Eva-Maria Merz
12 Comparing the Acculturation Goals of Parents and Adolescents
in Chinese Canadian Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Sarah Rasmi and Catherine L. Costigan
13 Parenting Immigrant Parents: Role Reversal, Language
Brokering, and Psychological Adjustment Among Immigrant
Adolescents in Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Olga Oznobishin and Jenny Kurman
14 Parenting in Global Perspective: Progress and Prospects . . . . . . . . . . 253
Ross D. Parke
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
About the Authors
R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez is an assistant professor in the Department of
Population Health at New York University School of Medicine, NY, USA. She is a
bilingual, bicultural, developmental psychologist. Her areas of research expertise
include families and children who are at psychological and academic risk because
of social inequality, understanding the influence of poverty and social stressors on
parental mental health, and family functioning and child well-being, with a special
focus on immigrant families.
Marc H. Bornstein is senior investigator and head of Child and Family Research
at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD, USA. He holds degrees from Columbia
College, Yale University, and the University of Padua. Bornstein is editor emeritus
of Child Development and founding editor of Parenting: Science and Practice. He
authored children’s books, videos, and puzzles and has published in experimental,
methodological, comparative, developmental, and cultural science as well as neuro-
science, pediatrics, and aesthetics.
Esther J. Calzada is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at the
University of Texas at Austin and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Population
Health at the NYU School of Medicine, USA. Her major research interests include
the role of culture (e.g., immigration and acculturation, cultural values) in family
processes, the prevention of mental health problems in children from ethnic minority
populations, and the cultural adaptation of evidence-based mental health treatments,
particularly parent training programs.
Charissa S. L. Cheah is a professor in the Applied Developmental Psychology
program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Her research utilizes
interdisciplinary approaches toward understanding how different aspects of culture
(e.g., sociocultural context, beliefs and values, majority versus minority status, immi-
gration, SES) impact socialization processes and child and adolescent health and well-
being. She utilizes mixed-method approaches to reveal and explore cultural uniformity
versus diversity in psychological constructs, structures, functions, and processes.
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x About the Authors
Susan S. Chuang is an associate professor at the University of Guelph, Canada. Her
research focuses on parenting of young children among immigrant and ethnic families
in various societies (Asian: Canada, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan; Latino: Paraguay,
USA; Black: Jamaica). Her second line of research examines families and immigra-
tion, collaborating with various national organizations in Canada. She is also the
series editor for Springer’s Advances in Immigrant Family Research. She has orga-
nized six international conferences on immigrant families (from 2005 to 2014).
May F. Chung is a doctoral student in the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program
at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Her research interests
include dialect awareness and education, Asian American language practices,
teacher education of preservice teachers, and linguistically and culturally diverse
teaching practices for English language learners.
Catherine L. Costigan is currently a professor in the Department of Psychology
at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada. Her research focuses on
understanding family relationship dynamics in immigrant families, including topics
such as the differential rates of acculturation among parents and children, identity
formation among immigration youth over time, and the co-parenting relationship
among immigrant spouses. Recent work also includes the development of work-
shops aimed at preserving strong parent-adolescent relationships in immigrant and
refugee families.
Linda R. Cote is a Professor of Psychology at Marymount University in Arlington,
Virginia. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from The Catholic University of America
and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Developmental Psychology from Clark University.
Her research focuses on parenting and children’s development among immigrant
families in the United States.
Suchi S. Daga graduated with a doctorate from Miami University’s Clinical
Psychology program and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the James A. Lovell
Federal Health Care Center where she works in trauma recovery with veterans and
active duty service members. Her research interests include culturally informed
conceptualizations of well-being and distress, culturally competent and relevant
mental health services and interventions, and trauma and recovery experiences in
diverse populations.
Radosveta Dimitrova received her doctorate at the University of Trieste, Italy, and
at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. She is a docent of Psychology at Stockholm
University, Sweden, and international research professor at Hiroshima University,
Japan. Her research interests focus on social identity, well-being, migration, posi-
tive youth development, ethnic minority groups (Roma), and the adaptation of
instruments in various cultures.
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Claudia Galindo is an associate professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture
Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Her interdisciplin-
ary research integrates the fields of sociology of education, educational policy,
developmental psychology, and immigration. Her research examines racial/ethnic
minority children’s learning outcomes and experiences, especially with Latino and
immigrant populations.
Carolina Hausmann-Stabile is an assistant professor at the School of Social
Work, in the College of Public Health at Temple University, USA. She is a bicultural
and bilingual researcher. Her work applies sociocultural perspectives to the study of
suicidal behaviors among minority youth in the United States, and among adoles-
cents in Latin America.
Miguel E. Hernandez is a strategic planner and data analyst for the New York City
Department of Education, USA. He advises Alternative Programs within the agency
on the use of data to improve student outcomes and inform decision-making.
Yang Hou is a doctoral student in the Department of Human Development and
Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests focus on
how factors in family, school, and sociocultural contexts relate to adolescents’
socio-emotional, behavioral, and academic development.
Keng-Yen Huang is an associate professor of Population Health, Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, and Global Public Health at New York University School of
Medicine, USA. She is a developmental psychologist with strong multidisciplinary
research training and expertise in psychiatric epidemiology, child development, and
global public health. She has led numerous projects focusing on early childhood
health and development across diverse ethnic populations.
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda is a professor in the Department of Applied
Psychology at New York University, NY, USA. Her research examines infant and
toddler learning and development in language and communication, object play, cog-
nition, and motor skills, and how early emerging skills feed into children’s develop-
mental trajectories. A core emphasis of her work is on the quality of mothers’ and
fathers’ interactions with children in relation to children’s developmental trajecto-
ries and, conversely, how emerging communicative skills in children influence their
everyday learning experiences and interactions with parents.
Christy Y. Y. Leung is the research director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative
at the University of Chicago. She is also a research faculty affiliate at the Center for
Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan. Her research
focuses on adaptation, parenting, and child development in immigrant, ethnic minor-
ity, and low-income populations across sociocultural contexts. She is particularly
interested in how various aspects of parenting shape at-risk young children’s
