The value tensions in Korean-American mother-child relationships while facilitating academic success
| Autor: | Sungeun Yang, Kathryn D. Rettig |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Value (ethics)
Social Psychology Interpretative phenomenological analysis media_common.quotation_subject Collectivism Context (language use) Obedience Developmental psychology Naturalistic observation Anthropology Developmental and Educational Psychology Happiness Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Social psychology media_common Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Personal Relationships. 10:349-369 |
| ISSN: | 1475-6811 1350-4126 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1475-6811.00054 |
| Popis: | The current study explored mothers’ perspectives concerning their experiences in facilitating the academic success of their adolescents in American schools, using a naturalistic study design, data from transcribed personal interviews of 17 Korean–American mothers, and a phenomenological analysis approach (Giorgi, 1985, 1997). The purposes of this study were to (a) reveal the layers of context that influenced mothers’ thoughts, actions, and mother–child relationships as they assisted their adolescents in realizing academic success, a core value in Korean culture, and (b) uncover the relationship difficulties mothers perceived in these processes. The results indicated that mothers were influenced by their individualistic and collectivist cultural (meta) contexts as they tried to facilitate the academic success for their adolescents. Second, they were struggling with their competing Korean and American value systems (general context) in the adjustment processes of “becoming an American” and “remaining a Korean.” Third, mothers revealed their value tensions with adolescents (specific context) in school and family settings. In the family setting the tensions involved balancing obedience and respect with freedom and equality, similarity preference with diversity tolerance, and achievement and recognition with happiness and fulfillment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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