Chinese Parental-Adolescent Relationship: Between Control and Autonomy

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10.2991/assehr.k.210519.168How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Parental-adolescent relationship, autonomy, Chinese teenagers, parental control, family conflicts

Abstract

Chinese parent-children interactions have long been considered as emphasizing conformity while discouraging adolescents’ autonomy [1]. However, there is a lack of research on the subjective views of Chinese teenagers in the major cities of China, especially after 2000. Leveraging the author’s identity as a peer to the interlocuters, the study draws on interviews of 20 high school students to demonstrate that among current Chinese high school students, various forms of parental control are perceived, including explicit control, implicit control, and perceptions of the absence of control. Chinese adolescents develop their own creative strategies to resolve family conflicts as well. The strategies vary from passive to active ones, consisting of no response, performance, trust dynamics outside family, and negotiation. The study reveals intergenerational value convergence as well as differences, leading to more dynamic parent-children interactional patterns that go beyond children’s conformity under authoritative parenting.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiawei Sun
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - Chinese Parental-Adolescent Relationship: Between Control and Autonomy
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 842
EP  - 852
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.168
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.168
ID  - Sun2021
ER  -