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Parenting Young Children In Contemporary Chinese Society: A Mixed Methods Study, Lixin Ren
Parenting Young Children In Contemporary Chinese Society: A Mixed Methods Study, Lixin Ren
Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine contemporary Chinese parents’ childrearing expectations, goals, and practices for their preschool-aged children. Participants included 154 parents with preschool-aged children (children’s mean age was 52.48 months with a standard deviation of 6.84) and 27 teachers recruited from seven preschools located in three small cities in northeastern China. In the quantitative phase, parents completed questionnaires measuring parental expectations (social-emotional and academic expectations), parenting styles, child social competence, and child pre-academic performance. The head teacher of each target child reported the child’s social competence and pre-academic performance. It was hypothesized that parental expectations …