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Chinese-American Adolescents' Reasoning about Cultural Conflicts

Jenny Yau

State University College at Buffalo

Judith G. Smetana

University of Rochester

This study examined Chinese-American adolescents' reasoning and judgments about cultural issues that cause conflicts with parents. Subjects were 38 Chinese-American adolescents (18 in early adolescence and 20 in late adolescence) varying in acculturation, as assessed by the Y Ying Biculturality Scale. Adolescents responded to two stories involving conflicts between parents' conventional demands for obedience and adolescents' desires for personal jurisdiction. For each story, adolescents judged and justified acts in four conditions that varied the salience of conventional and personal concerns. The results showed that across conditions, responses to the two stories were predominately conventional, but over 50% of responses entailed a recognition of both personal and conventional concerns. Overall, early adolescents used more conventional and pragmatic justifications, whereas late adolescents used more psychological justifications. Adolescents'judgments and reasoning did not differ consistently according to acculturation. The impact of Chinese culture and implications of intraindividual conflict on Chinese-American adolescents'development are discussed.

Journal of Adolescent Research, Vol. 8, No. 4, 419-438 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/074355489384005
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