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Abstract
The current study surveyed parental play beliefs among the three groups of parents: the mainland Chinese, Chinese immigrants in the USA, and European-Americans. Limited comparison studies on parental play beliefs were previously reported for these three populations in the literature. Two measures, the Chinese child-rearing ideology and parental play beliefs scale, were used in this study. Responses from 144 responses were collected. The mainland Chinese parents reported similar scores both in the Chinese child-rearing ideology and in play beliefs as to the European-American parents. Surprisingly, the Chinese immigrant parents reported the highest scores in the Chinese child-rearing ideology and the lowest scores in the parental play beliefs among the three groups. This indicated that the surveyed Chinese immigrant parents held more traditional Chinese child-rearing ideology and were less positive towards children's play.
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Notes on contributors
Shan Jiang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. Her research interests include play, early childhood development, and family relationships of the Asian immigrants in the USA.
Myae Han is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Delaware. Her research interests are early childhood education, play, and early language and literacy.