Huntsinger, Carol S., and Paul E. Jose.

"Relations among Parental Acceptance and

Control and Childrens Social Adjustment in Chinese American and European
American Families." Journal of Family Psychology 23.3 (2009): 321-30. Journal.
Authors Huntsinger and Jose have written numerous family relations psychology
scholarly journals, starting from before the time of 1995. The majority of their work
have been published and use in studies of psychology and family relations.
Huntsinger is a psychology professor, in the psychology department at Northern
Illinois University. Jose is also a psychology professor, in the department of
psychology at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their qualifications
when it comes to gaining information from their studies exceed expectations. The
purpose of the conducted study was to understand the difference between the two
extremas of parenting through cultural differences. They conducted the study by
following children and the ways their parents raised them through the grade level of
preschool to fourth grade. Cultures ranged from various Asian cultures to European
American culture. The study wanted to prove the relationship and acceptance
amongst children and their parents is based off the teaching and raising of the
parent.
The study showed that the Chinese American mother and father had either the
same or similar level of acceptance and control when it came to their children.
Through observation and interview noted that a similar lifestyle idea of importance
distilled in adults is of education and the advancement in music. The Chinese
American children when surveyed scored themselves low on social acceptance. It is
believed that through the tracked success rate of the children that the Chinese
American parents in fact do have more control over their children. It was also noted
that the father of the Chinese American children will eventually after four years of
birth will begin to have a negative effect on the growing lifestyle of the child. The
European American culture varied varies differently from the Chinese Americans.
When it came to the parents of the European Americans they did not accept equal
shares of responsibility of acceptance and control. This is from the believed idea of
individualism in the eastern culture. This practice of individualism plays a big part in
the developing of parent to child relationship. When surveying the children of the
European American they scored low and saw signs prone to anxiety and depression.
This article related to my topic in the sense of it talks about my topic in its entirety.
It explained how relationships are formed from birth between both the mother and
the father and it specified in the developing of relationship due to culture. I found
that this study was conducted more through mathematical work and genetics then
through the process of nature, but with the quality of work that has been conducted
and presented, I can say this journal has been the most effective when learning the
psychological stand point of developing relationships between mother, father and
child.