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Thursday, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Parenting and Psychosocial Adjustment in Diverse Sociocultural Contexts

Parental practices and goals are embedded within sociocultural contexts, influenced by different cultural norms and socioeconomic conditions. This symposium aims to broaden our understanding of parenting in diverse sociocultural contexts, and their implications for children’s multifaceted psychosocial adjustment comprising self-regulation abilities, attention orienting skills, moral development, and parent-child relationships. We investigate parenting practices, goals, and interventions in four talks spanning multiple socioculturally diverse samples from Singapore, Bangladesh, and the United States (Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander families). In a cross-cultural study that assessed naturalistic parent-infant interactions, Presentation 1 examines parents’ attentional scaffolding practices in families from Bangladesh and Boston, and their relations with infants’ attention orienting and self-regulation skills. Presentation 2 delves into the interplay between Singaporean parents’ parental goals and parenting styles in predicting parenting by lying practices, that are closely linked to children’s moral socialization. Presentation 3 identifies six culturally-distinct parenting styles within a multi-ethnic Asian cohort in Singapore, and elucidates how these parenting styles are longitudinally associated with children’s self-regulation and depressive symptoms. To conclude our symposium, Presentation 4 illustrates an integrative framework on cultural adaptations of a relational savoring intervention to strengthen parent-child relationships in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) families. Together, these four presentations employ diverse methodological approaches and provide holistic insight into the influence of parents on children’s psychosocial adjustment in diverse sociocultural contexts. Importantly, we highlight future research directions to understand culturally-relevant parental influences and parenting interventions that promote parent-child relationships and address socioeconomic disparities in family outcomes.

Paper #1
Title	Nurturing Attention Development and Self-Regulation in the Context of Childhood Poverty
Presenting author	Dr. Ran Wei, Peking University, Beijing, China

Paper #2
Title	Why do Parents Lie? Parenting Styles, Parental Goals, and Parenting by Lying
Presenting author	Petrina Hui Xian Low, Psychology Division, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Paper #3
Title	Longitudinal Associations between Maternal Parenting Styles, Self-regulation, and Childhood Depressive Symptoms: A Structural Equation Analysis
Presenting author	Dr. Germaine Tng, Psychology Division, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University; School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Paper #4
Title	A Framework to Enhance Cultural Responsiveness of Relational Savoring for Asian American Families
Presenting author	Elayne Zhou, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, USA, United States

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Session chairs
Dr. Peipei Setoh, Ph.D., Psychology Division, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University; Institute for Human Development and Potential (IHDP), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore; Dr. Evelyn C. Law, M.D., , Singapore

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