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Authoritarian parenting and Asian adolescent school performance: Insights from the US and Taiwan

¹ The Pennsylvania State University, USA
² University of Chicago, USA

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pong{at}pop.psu.edu.

	Abstract

Our study re-examines the relationship between parenting and school performance among Asian students. We use two sources of data: wave I of the Adolescent Health Longitudinal Survey (Add Health), and waves I and II of the Taiwan Educational Panel Survey (TEPS). Analysis using Add Health reveals that the Asian-American/European-American difference in the parenting–school performance relationship is due largely to differential sample sizes. When we select a random sample of European-American students comparable to the sample size of Asian-American students, authoritarian parenting also shows no effect for European-American students. Furthermore, analysis of TEPS shows that authoritarian parenting is negatively associated with children’s school achievement, while authoritative parenting is positively associated. This result for Taiwanese Chinese students is similar to previous results for European-American students in the US.

First published on November 6, 2009
International Journal of Behavioral Development 2009, doi:10.1177/0165025409345073


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