TY - JOUR TI - Parental stress and parenting in Chinese immigrant families: The mediating role of social support AU - Liu, Shu-Wen AU - Zhai, Fuhua AU - Gao, Qin T2 - Child & Family Social Work AB - Abstract As the population of Chinese immigrants has been growing rapidly in the United States, it has been understudied on the parenting behaviours as well as the roles parental stress and social support playing in parenting in this group. This study investigated whether parental stress was associated with parenting and whether this relationship was mediated by social support in a sample of 255 Chinese immigrant parents from the Survey of Asian American Families in New York City. Regression analyses with a rich array of control variables found that a higher level of parental stress and the presence of one or more stressors such as unemployment, low income, and low education were positively associated with the use of harsh discipline and parent?child conflicts and negatively associated with positive parenting practices. Social support functioned as a significant mediator in the relationships between parental stress and positive parenting practices but not in the relationships of parental stress with parent?child conflict or the use of harsh discipline. DA - 2020/08/01/ PY - 2020 DO - 10.1111/cfs.12734 VL - 25 IS - S1 SP - 135 EP - 148 J2 - Child & Family Social Work SN - 1356-7500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12734 Y2 - 2021/07/28/00:00:00 KW - Chinese immigrants KW - harsh discipline KW - parental stress KW - parenting practices KW - parent–child conflict KW - social support ER -