#3 Research Question and 3 Academic Sources

What is your current version of your research question?

  • How does "tiger parenting" affect the life of a college student?
Resources:

Raleigh, Elizabeth & Kao, Grace. (2010). Do Immigrant Minority Parents Have More Consistent College Aspirations For Their Children?. Social Science Quarterly. 91. 1083-1102. 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2010.00750.x.
  • Explains that immigrant parents are more idealistic and positive about their children's futures and encourage them to go to college throughout their childhoods.

Shin, M. & Wong, Y Joel. (2013). Beyond the Tiger Mom: Asian American parenting and parent-child relationships. Parenting: Challenges, Practices and Cultural Influences. 103-122. 
  • Explains how Asian American college students are more likely to have conflicts with their parents regarding careers, identities, & education choices which can lead to cognitive inflexibility and to more substance use than the average college students
Ghosh A, Fouad NA, Korell S, Lamborn S, Larson C, Luo W. Asian parents and their college age children: Examining family influence on careers. January 2014.
  • Explains how Asian parents have specific values regarding to education which they pass onto their children which influences the development process.
  • This article also talks about how Asian Americans usually try for only a few occupations related to STEM, business, or accounting.

Comments

  1. Michael GoellerFebruary 26, 2020 at 6:06 AM

    Love it. Great topic and good sources on that. You should, of course, reference Amy Chua's work directly -- and I have seen several NY Times articles over the years that have followed up with her about how well her kids are doing (one played Carnegie Hall, of course).

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