华裔移民家长和欧裔美国家长与儿童身体亲密接触的比较——从中分析不同文化下的家庭关系

Immigrant-Chinese and Euro-American Parents’Physical Closeness with Young Children:Themes of Family Relatedness under Different Cultures

与欧裔美国家长相比，华裔移民家长更愿意在睡觉时与孩子距离较近，更倾向于将孩子的独立看作是在家庭伴随下成长的结果，更强调家庭的整体性，更倾向于采用含蓄的表达方式．遵守社会认同的价值观。维护家长的权威。欧裔美国家长则更能够接受孩子在家里赤身，更关注身体亲密接触对孩子心理层面发展的意义，尊重孩子自我表达的需要和感受，更倾向于认为孩子的独立是其独特性发展的结果，更重视获得愉悦与幸福感，更重视夫妻独处。在华裔移民家庭中，和谐是家庭关系的主要特征。在欧裔美国人家庭中，浪漫则是其主要特征。研究发现，家长与孩子身体亲密接触表达方式的差异，与文化差异有关。当然，文化也有共通之处。居住国的大环境在促进文化共通方面起重要作用。

Compared with Euro-American parents, immigrant-Chinese parents are more willing to sleep in closer proximity with their children; more often view children＇s independence as a result of growing up with the family; are more likely to emphasize the family unity; and place greater importance on inhibition of expression, adhereiace to correct values, and hierarchy of relations. Euro-American parents, by contrast, are more accepting of nudity; place more emphasis on psychological benefits of physical closeness and on the child＇s expression of wants and feelings; more often view independence as celebrating the child＇s distinctiveness; and place greater importance on pleasure, happiness and spousal exclusiveness. The authors suggest that closeness is characterized by an overarching theme of harmony in immigrant-Chinese families and by an overarching theme of romance in Euro-American families. The different physical closeness types are related with cultural differences. Of course, different cultures also share similarities. The culture of the country the immigrants are living in has significant influence on the communication between different cultures.