Redeeming Immigrant Parents: How Korean American Emerging Adults Reinterpret Their Childhood

Autor/inn/en	Kang, Hyeyoung; Okazaki, Sumie; Abelmann, Nancy; Kim-Prieto, Chu; Lan, Shanshan
Titel	Redeeming Immigrant Parents: How Korean American Emerging Adults Reinterpret Their Childhood
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent Research, 25 (2010) 3, S.441-464 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-5584
DOI	10.1177/0743558410361371
Schlagwörter	Grounded Theory; Korean Americans; Youth; Immigrants; Parent Child Relationship; Second Language Learning; Conflict; Immigration; Cultural Differences; College Students; Spiritual Development; Cognitive Development; Personal Narratives; Student Attitudes; Attitude Change; Family (Sociological Unit) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Konflikt; Kultureller Unterschied; Collegestudent; Kognitive Entwicklung; Erlebniserzählung; Schülerverhalten; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Familie
Abstract	Korean American youth experience immigration-related parent-child challenges including language barriers, parent-child conflicts, and generational cultural divides. Using grounded theory methods, this article examines the ways in which 18 Korean American college-enrolled emerging adults retrospectively made sense out of their experiences of immigrant family hardships. Of those who narrated childhood hardship, over half narrated positive change in which they reinterpreted their relationship to their parents and redeemed their immigrant parents either through their own maturation or through spirituality. This narrative strategy is consistent with cognitive change in emerging adults' view of their parents that have been documented in other studies (Arnett, 2004). Only a minority of participants did not narrate positive changes and remained distressed over their relationship to their parents. Findings suggest the possibility that narration of positive change is a culturally salient process by which many Korean American emerging adults come to terms with early family challenges. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10