3-181 - Exploring Moderating and Mediating Processes in the Links between Parenting and Ethnic Minority Youth’s Outcomes

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Positive parenting (e.g., warmth, monitoring) has been often related to more positive youth adjustment. However, the potential moderators and underlying mechanisms of the relation between parenting and youths’ outcomes are understudied particularly within cultural contexts among ethnic minority families. The three papers in this symposium present a comprehensive discussion about general and cultural specific moderators and mediators of the relation between parenting and youth outcomes, with a focus on ethnic minority families originating from Asian and Latinx backgrounds. Paper 1 examines how the relation between parental monitoring and youths’ delinquent behaviors depends on youths’ age, perceived discrimination, and parent-child alienation among Chinese and Mexican American families using time-varying effect modeling. Paper 2 investigates how Chinese Canadian youths’ perceived parenting, ideal or desired parenting, and Chinese cultural orientations interactively relate to adolescent depressive symptoms using polynomial regression and response surface analysis. Paper 3 compared a moderated mediation model across Asian American and European Americans in which youth’s self-regulation is a mediator linking authoritative parenting to youths’ anxiety and depressive symptoms, and parent-child conflict is a moderator of the mediation model. Together, this symposium provides important information for researchers and clinicians regarding when and through what mechanisms positive parenting is beneficial for youths’ adjustment among various ethnic minority populations, using diverse statistical methods. An expert in parenting research and statistical methodology will discuss the implications of these findings for future parenting research and clinical practices.

Sub Unit

• Parenting & Parent-Child Relationships

Chair

• Yang Hou, University of Texas in Austin

Discussant

• Robert D. Laird, University of Alabama

Individual Presentations

• Parent-Child Alienation and Adolescent Discrimination Moderate the Time-Varying Monitoring-Delinquency Link across Adolescence - Presenting Author: Yang Hou, University of Texas in Austin; Non-Presenting Author: Su Yeong Kim, University of Texas at Austin

• Cultural Orientation as a Moderator of Parenting Discrepancy-Adjustment Links Among Chinese Canadian Children - Presenting Author: Vivien So, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria; Non-Presenting Author: Catherine Costigan, University of Victoria

• Authoritative Parenting, Self-regulation, and Psychological Adjustment in Asian American and European American Emerging Adults - Presenting Author: Jillian J. Shen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Non-Presenting Author: Xiaoli Zong, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Non-Presenting Author: Jing Yu, NICHD; Non-Presenting Author: Charissa S. L. Cheah, University of Maryland, Baltimore County