Presenter: Yige Ding

Filial Norms and Parental Resistance in Non-Immigrant & Multi-Generational East Asian Families

Type of Presentation: Poster

Abstract

This project explores Parent-child relationships in the context of patriarchal norms. Previous research on classic chinese literature argued that traditional filial piety redirects childhood loyalty toward obedience rather than overt desire. What's more, studies on cultural psychoanalysis suggests that Oedipus complex itself as a patriarchal construct that reinforces parent's authority within families. Although modern western psychology rarely tests unconscious complex directly, cross-cultural evidences about how patriarchal values influence children are limited. This leads to my research question: How does patriarchal values and Filial Piety affect parent-child relationship in immigrant family and nonimmigrant family? This study will focus on Vancouver and richmond because these areas contain large East Asian communities. Data will be collected through mixed methods: surveys and interview.My hypothesis is that children from long-settled family may emphasize stricter expectations of obedience, non-immigrant family child faces more strict relationship between parent.This study has limitations on small sample size and focus on children's reported experiences rather than unconscious process.

Biography

Yige Ding is an international student in the Vantage Arts program at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on patriarchal values and filial piety, and he is interested in exploring how these cultural norms shape parent-child relationships among East Asian children in immigrant and non-immigrant families.