Parent/child relationships in a cross-cultural context: Jamaican-Canadian families from the child's perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The study explored the parent/child relationship in the context of cross-cultural relocation. In particular, the study explored the transmission of cultural values and beliefs and the redefinition and negotiation of these values and beliefs within an acculturation environment. Utilizing a grounded theory qualitative research approach, twenty adolescent/emerging adult children (aged between 18 and 26) of Jamaican immigrants of African descent living in Canada volunteered to participate in in-depth interviews. Informants were initially asked to recall various cultural or family practices in which their families engaged while growing up. Practices are considered by many researchers as the visible embodiment of cultural beliefs or values, and therefore, are often viewed as the best means for accessing the ways culture organizes and directs behaviour and thought (Goodnow, 1997; Weisner, 2005). Various practices, such as family meal times and food preparation, disciplinary episodes, family storytelling, religious practices, and chores provided insight into the transmission of values and beliefs and any changes that occurred in these values and beliefs due to the families' cross-cultural relocation. As these various practices were examined, several themes emerged: the focus within the Black-Jamaican family upon women (matrifocality); the need for children to respect their elders or other people in authority (respect); the construction of what it means to be part of the family (intentionality in family membership); and, family stories about the rationale for the cross-cultural relocation from Jamaica to Canada (stories of a better life). Woven throughout the above themes were the strands of adaptation to the adopted Canadian culture (acculturation) and the agency or influence that the child exerts on the parent/family (child influence/bi-directionality). The study makes several contributions. Jamaican immigrant families living in Canada are relatively underrepresented in the current body of research. The parent/child relationship, specifically the ways in which they attempt to influence one another within an acculturation context, is an emerging issue within the research community. Theoretically, a model of the Jamaican immigrant parent/child relationship was constructed from the data collected that informs both developmental research (socialization and parent/child relations) and acculturation research (traditional models of cultural transmission).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".