Parents' Excessive Expectation and Adolescent Depression : A Cross-Cultural Study among Japanese and Chinese Adolescents

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  • 両親の過度の期待と青年の抑うつ傾向 : 日本と中国における比較研究

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Although the negative impact of parents’ excessive expectation on their children’s psychological well-being has long been pointed out, the quantitative research has rarely been done. This present study investigated the process of how parents’ excessive expectation related to adolescents’ depressive symptoms. The parenting practices that hurt adolescent feelings (e.g. “said that I humiliated him/her”) were put into the model as a mediator, and the effects of adolescent’s gender, parents’ warmth, and perceived family wealth were controlled. Japanese (N＝525) and Chinese (N＝364) university students completed a questionnaire. The results of simultaneous multigroup analysis showed that the models of Chinese and Japanese adolescents were the same and that the hypotheses were supported. Both mothers’ and fathers’ excessive expectations for adolescents were related to more harmful parenting practices, then such practices of parents’ related to greater depressive symptoms of their adolescent children. Similarities and differences related to gender, parents’ warmth, and perceived family wealth between Japanese and Chinese p\ articipants were discussed.

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  • 人間文化創成科学論叢

    人間文化創成科学論叢 13 237-245, 2011-03

    お茶の水女子大学大学院人間文化創成科学研究科

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