Chao is mainly working on The Multicultural Families and Adolescents Study (MFAS) at the moment [REF].
In her work, Chao has argued for a reconceptualization of Diana Baumrind's identification of three parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive) on the basis that the concepts of authoritative and authoritarian are ethnocentric and do not capture the essential features of parenting in Asian American families [REF].