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Gender and Acculturation in Relation to Traditionalism: Perceptions of Self and Parents Among Chinese Students

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The acculturation attitudes and traditionalismof Chinese university students in Toronto, Canada, wereinvestigated. Chinese men were significantly moretraditional than Chinese women in their beliefs and expectations regarding family hierarchy and thesocial roles of women and men, but they did not differin perceptions of their parents' construal of familyrelations and gender roles. Generational discrepancy between self and perceived parental values wasfound for Chinese women but not for men in the study,suggesting greater conflict with regard to traditionalgender role and cultural values for women. The acculturation attitude of separation predictedstudents' traditionalism, and marginalization predictedparents' perceived traditionalism. Gender differencesand the relevance of different modes of acculturation with regard to traditionalism are discussed inthis article.

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Tang, T.N., Dion, K.L. Gender and Acculturation in Relation to Traditionalism: Perceptions of Self and Parents Among Chinese Students. Sex Roles 41, 17–29 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018881523745

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