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Original Articles

The sociocultural and psychological adaptation of Chinese migrant adolescents in Australia and Canada

Pages 8-19 | Published online: 15 Oct 2010
 

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the adaptation of Chinese migrant adolescents in Australia and Canada, in terms of their academic achievement, parent-child conflict, and stress, in the light of various societal, situational, and individual variables. The participants included 75 Chinese-Canadian and 92 Chinese-Australian high school students. The results suggested that academic achievement in the host society was influenced by societal level variables such as auspices of immigration, and situational and individual variables such as amount of social support available, age, and their definitions of success. For parent-child conflict and stress level, they were related to the situational variable, social support, rather than to societal variables. There was also some evidence to indicate that the three adaptation outcome variables were related. Cette étude porte sur l'adaptation d'adolescents chinois ayant immigréen Australie et au Canada. Le succès scolaire, les conflits parents-enfant et le stress sont analysés à la lumière de différentes variables sociétales, situationnelles et individuelles. Les participants sont 175 chinois canadiens et 92 chinois australiens fréquentant l'école secondaire. Les résultats suggèrent que le succès scolaire dans la société d'accueil est influencé par des variables sociétales comme les conditions d'immigration et par des variables situationnelles et individuelles comme le support social disponible, l'âge et les définitions du succès. Les conflits parents-enfant et le stress sont reliés àla variable situationnelle, le support social, plutôt qu'aux variables sociétales. Il y a aussi des indications que les trois variables d'adaptation sont reliées.

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