Exploring the Place of Fathers in Chinese Immigrant Families: A Pilot Demonstration
Exploring the Place of Fathers in Chinese Immigrant Families: A Pilot Demonstration
cityu.school | Division of Arts and Sciences | en_US |
cityu.site | Vancouver, BC | en_US |
cityu.site.country | Canada | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Chou, Roxanne | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-21T18:54:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-21T18:54:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-07-10 | |
dc.description.abstract | Adolescence is a major transitional period in a person's life. This move to adolescence may be uniquely challenging in the Chinese immigrant families with long-distance fathers. This is a pilot project to increase awareness of an emerging social problem caused by a pattern of long distance relationships between absentee fathers and their children in the Chinese immigrant community of Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia. This self imposed condition, perceived as a solution to money matters, may actually increase the stresses and challenges on the development of Chinese immigrant adolescents in their parental attachment, self-esteem and social relationship. Attachment was measured using the shortened version of the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA). Self-esteem was measured using the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (RSES). A test of small random sample (N=10) was collected in a Burnaby public secondary school. It showed that out of ten, seven Chinese immigrant adolescents were from families with long-distance fathers. The project will not show any statistically significant results, because this is a small-sample exploratory study. The comparisons are being made directly by a t-test for difference of means. Therefore, what it will show is some descriptive statistics, and some non-statistical comparisons of means and ranges to demonstrate how the study, if done on a larger sample, would work. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/232 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | City University of Seattle (CityU) | |
dc.subject | absent fathers | |
dc.subject | Chinese immigrants | |
dc.title | Exploring the Place of Fathers in Chinese Immigrant Families: A Pilot Demonstration | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Counseling | en_US |
thesis.degree.grantor | City University of Seattle | en_US |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
thesis.degree.name | Master in Teaching | en_US |
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