Asian Americans have a very strong ethnic presence in the United States. For this study, the authors’ main goal was to find a connection between the neighborhood a family lived in, and how it influenced parenting styles and children’s behavior. The participants were 258 children from 1st to 2nd grade in the San Francisco Bay area. The children and their families were from Chinese background. The authors had two theories. Firs, they predicted that neighborhood characteristics would influence what parenting style the parent used, thus affecting the child’s behavior. Second, they anticipated that neighborhood characteristics would affect children’s behavior, which in turn affected what parenting style the parents used. The authors examined three
