Chinese Adolescents' Influence on Family Decision Making

The purpose of this study is to investigate Chinese adolescents' influence on family decision making regarding on the effect of children's characteristics including academic performance, product knowledge and financial saving. The concept of value alignment is initially introduced to the f...

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Main Author: He, Shushi
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22249/
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description The purpose of this study is to investigate Chinese adolescents' influence on family decision making regarding on the effect of children's characteristics including academic performance, product knowledge and financial saving. The concept of value alignment is initially introduced to the family decision making since it greatly concerns on the Chinese culture. It is assumed that China's only children would have more influence on the decision making of high-end electronic goods when they align with parental value of academic performance, product information seeking and financial saving respectively. The research employed self-report survey for gathering data. A convenient sample of seventy-seven matched pairs of adolescents age 15-19 and their mothers from only-child family was collected. The results indicate that the creation of value alignment by adolescents enhances Chinese adolescents' influence on family decision making and also moderates the effect of children's resource on the influence of family decision making.
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spelling nottingham-222492018-01-26T01:58:42Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22249/ Chinese Adolescents' Influence on Family Decision Making He, Shushi The purpose of this study is to investigate Chinese adolescents' influence on family decision making regarding on the effect of children's characteristics including academic performance, product knowledge and financial saving. The concept of value alignment is initially introduced to the family decision making since it greatly concerns on the Chinese culture. It is assumed that China's only children would have more influence on the decision making of high-end electronic goods when they align with parental value of academic performance, product information seeking and financial saving respectively. The research employed self-report survey for gathering data. A convenient sample of seventy-seven matched pairs of adolescents age 15-19 and their mothers from only-child family was collected. The results indicate that the creation of value alignment by adolescents enhances Chinese adolescents' influence on family decision making and also moderates the effect of children's resource on the influence of family decision making. 2008 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22249/1/shushi_He_dissertatin.pdf He, Shushi (2008) Chinese Adolescents' Influence on Family Decision Making. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) Adolescent Influence Family Decision Making Resource Value alignment China
spellingShingle Adolescent
Influence
Family Decision Making
Resource
Value alignment
China
He, Shushi
Chinese Adolescents' Influence on Family Decision Making
title Chinese Adolescents' Influence on Family Decision Making
title_full Chinese Adolescents' Influence on Family Decision Making
title_fullStr Chinese Adolescents' Influence on Family Decision Making
title_full_unstemmed Chinese Adolescents' Influence on Family Decision Making
title_short Chinese Adolescents' Influence on Family Decision Making
title_sort chinese adolescents' influence on family decision making
topic Adolescent
Influence
Family Decision Making
Resource
Value alignment
China
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22249/