OBJECTIVES Racial-ethnic minority parents' experiences with racial discrimination may function as a contextual stressor that negatively impacts psychological functioning to shape less effective parenting practices, including the use of more psychological control. Moreover, various factors can enhance or diminish psychological functioning in the face of racial discrimination. Accordingly, we examined the associations between Chinese American mothers' experiences of racial discrimination and three subdimensions of psychologically controlling parenting by considering the mediating roles of negative (depressive symptoms) and positive (psychological well-being) psychological functioning and the moderating role of maternal acculturation toward the mainstream culture (AMC) as a protective factor. METHOD Participants comprised 226 Chinese American mothers of preschoolers (Mage = 37.65; SDage = 4.39). Two separate moderated-mediation models with depressive symptoms or psychological well-being as mediators were tested using maximum-likelihood estimation. RESULTS Findings revealed significant direct positive associations between racial discrimination and all three subdimensions of psychological control (love withdrawal, guilt induction, and shaming practices), as well as indirect associations through depressive symptoms but not psychological well-being. Importantly, the indirect associations were further moderated by maternal AMC. CONCLUSIONS Results illustrate the importance of incorporating the contextual stressor of perceived racial discrimination in parenting determinant models and examining specific and nuanced processes in understanding the role of psychological adjustment. Support for Chinese American mothers' engagement in and access to various resources in the mainstream cultural context may help alleviate the adverse impact of racial discrimination on mothers' psychological health and ultimately on their negative parenting behaviors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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种族歧视与华裔美国母亲心理控制养育之间联系的风险和保护过程。


目标 少数族裔父母的种族歧视经历可能会成为一种背景压力源，对心理功能产生负面影响，从而形成效率较低的养育方式，包括使用更多的心理控制。此外，多种因素可以增强或削弱面对种族歧视时的心理功能。因此，我们通过考虑消极（抑郁症状）和积极（心理健康）心理功能的中介作用以及母亲文化适应的调节作用，研究了华裔美国母亲的种族歧视经历与心理控制养育的三个维度之间的关联。将主流文化（AMC）作为保护因素。方法 参与者包括 226 名学龄前儿童的美籍华裔母亲（Mage = 37.65；SDage = 4.39）。使用最大似然估计测试了两个以抑郁症状或心理健康为中介的独立调节中介模型。结果 调查结果显示，种族歧视与心理控制的所有三个维度（爱情退缩、内疚诱导和羞辱行为）之间存在显着的直接正相关关系，以及通过抑郁症状而非心理健康产生的间接关联。重要的是，间接关联进一步受到母亲 AMC 的调节。结论 结果说明了将感知到的种族歧视的背景压力因素纳入养育决定因素模型中的重要性，并检查了理解心理调整作用的具体和细致入微的过程。 支持华裔母亲参与和获取主流文化背景下的各种资源可能有助于减轻种族歧视对母亲心理健康并最终对其消极养育行为的不利影响。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。