The sociocultural and psychological adaptation of Chinese migrant adolescents in Australia and Canada
Author:
Cynthia Leung a
| Affiliation: | a Victoria University, Australia. |
DOI:
10.1080/00207590042000047
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6 issues per year
Subject:
Multidisciplinary Psychology;
Number of References: 51
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Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the adaptation of Chinese migrant adolescents in Australia and Canada, in terms of their academic achievement, parent-child conflict, and stress, in the light of various societal, situational, and individual variables. The participants included 75 Chinese-Canadian and 92 Chinese-Australian high school students. The results suggested that academic achievement in the host society was influenced by societal level variables such as auspices of immigration, and situational and individual variables such as amount of social support available, age, and their definitions of success. For parent-child conflict and stress level, they were related to the situational variable, social support, rather than to societal variables. There was also some evidence to indicate that the three adaptation outcome variables were related. Cette
tude porte sur l'adaptation d'adolescents chinois ayant immigr en Australie et au Canada. Le succ s scolaire, les conflits parents-enfant et le stress sont analys s la lumi re de diff rentes variables soci tales, situationnelles et individuelles. Les participants sont 175 chinois canadiens et 92 chinois australiens fr quentant l' cole secondaire. Les r sultats sugg rent que le succ s scolaire dans la soci t d'accueil est influenc par des variables soci tales comme les conditions d'immigration et par des variables situationnelles et individuelles comme le support social disponible, l' ge et les d finitions du succ s. Les conflits parents-enfant et le stress sont reli s la variable situationnelle, le support social, plut t qu'aux variables soci tales. Il y a aussi des indications que les trois variables d'adaptation sont reli es.
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tude porte sur l'adaptation d'adolescents chinois ayant immigr
s scolaire, les conflits parents-enfant et le stress sont analys
la lumi
ge et les d
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