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Natalie Wong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Known for:Cross-cultural research on parental guilt and pride induction in adolescents across collectivist and individualist societies, finding that personal-domain guilt induction harms relationship quality in both cultural contexts
Key findings
- 2025
A comparative study of parental guilt and pride induction in Hong Kong and the United States found scalar invariance in guilt induction measurement across both cultures; guilt induction on personal-domain issues — including choices about identity — was negatively associated with parent-adolescent relationship quality in both collectivist and individualist settings. How parents leverage guilt and pride: A comparison of parental guilt and pride induction in Hong Kong and the United States ↗
- 2024
Parental warmth buffered the negative effects of guilt induction on prosocial behaviors in Chinese adolescents, but guilt induction without warmth was associated with values that prioritized obligation compliance rather than internalized prosociality. Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents ↗