Intergenerational Differences in Parenting Styles of Mother–Daughter Dyads Among Immigrants and Native-Born Israelis

Bitton, Mally Shechory; David, Sarah Ben

doi:10.1177/0022022114542283

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“…It includes 62 items divided into 3 scales: authoritative parenting style, authoritarian parenting style, and permissive parenting style. Good internal consistencies were found (Cronbach’s α = .92, .89, and .79, respectively) similar to others in Israel (see Shechory-Bitton & Ben David, 2014; Cronbach’s α = .93, .89, and .78, respectively). Each item was ranked on a 4-point Likert-type scale (1 = never , 4 = always ), resulting in a parenting style score based on how often a mother exhibits certain parental behaviors toward her child.…”

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“…The PSDQ was designed to determine participants' parenting styles (Robinson et al, 1995). The tool was designed to assess Baumrind's (1977Baumrind's ( , 1991 three main parenting typologies (authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive) and has been used in numerous studies (e.g., Johnson, Welk, Saint-Maurice, & Ihmels, 2012;Shechory-Bitton & Ben David, 2014;Slone, Shechner, & Farah, 2011). It includes 62 items divided into 3 scales: authoritative parenting style, authoritarian parenting style, and permissive parenting style.…”

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“…Attitudes toward violence. We evaluated attitudes to CP using a questionnaire compiled by Ines (1993) and used in other studies in Israel (Shechory-Bitton & Ben David, 2014). We used 18 questions related to attitudes toward CP and violence that were translated from Hebrew into Arabic by the back-translation method (Brislin, 1970).…”

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Effect of Ethnicity on Parenting Styles and Attitudes Toward Violence Among Jewish and Arab Muslim Israeli Mothers

Shechory-Bitton

David

Sommerfeld

2015

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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The cultural heterogeneity of Israeli society creates a unique opportunity to study the effects of ethnicity and intergenerational differences on parenting styles, attitudes, and practices. Three groups of mother-daughter dyads took part in the study: Native-born Jewish (NBJ) Israelis (155 dyads), Jewish Mizrahi (JM) immigrants (immigrants from Muslim countries (133 dyads), and native-born Arab Muslim (NBA) Israelis (86 dyads). Participants were located through a "snowball" process in which participants referred their friends to the researchers or gave the researchers names of potential participants. Interethnic differences were found in the mothers' generation, with JM mothers falling in between NBJ and NBA mothers. This trend changed when we examined differences between the daughters. Although intergenerational differences were found in all groups, the differences were more prominent among Jewish mother-daughter dyads than among mother-daughter dyads in the Muslim population. Contrary to the research hypothesis, the parenting style of JM women was closer to that of NBJ mothers than to NBA mothers. The findings are discussed with reference to the complexity of Israeli society and to the encounter between the culture of the immigrant women who came from Muslim countries and the Western culture of the host society.

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Effect of Ethnicity on Parenting Styles and Attitudes Toward Violence Among Jewish and Arab Muslim Israeli Mothers

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David

Sommerfeld

2015

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“…These legal concepts create avenues, which provide a child with options and choices that can be deemed contrary to sub-Saharan African parenting values. Furthermore, with research showing that children integrate much faster than their parents (Bitton & Ben David, 2014;Wilson & Renzaho, 2015), it is likely that sub-Saharan African migrant families will face further challenges due to intergeneration conflicts.…”

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The concept of a child within sub‐Saharan African migrant homes: Reconciling culture and child rights

Mugadza

Stout

Akombi

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Child & Family Social Work

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As international migration increases, the Australian socio-cultural and political context in which sub-Saharan African migrant families are settling is causing tension between traditional sub-Saharan African migrant definitions of child and childhood experiences and host nation definitions particularly when compared with the child protection system. This paper seeks to explore and highlight the fundamental values and differences that determine perceptions and treatment of children within traditional sub-Saharan African communities. Using a qualitative design, this study was influenced by acculturation theory. Four major themes emerged from the analysis: (a) culture and the sub-Saharan African child, (b) moulding good children, (c) family functioning and relationships, and (d) host context: perceptions of Australian mainstream parenting. The study found that in order to successfully make decisions that are in the best interest of sub-Saharan African migrant children that come to the attention of the child protection system, discussions about children rights can only yield good outcomes when the child's socio-cultural environment is considered.

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“…However, fewer studies address how U.S.-born, adult children of immigrants raise their own children and findings are similarly variable. Bitton and David (2014) found that adult children of immigrants who went from traditional, non-Western societies to a more Western society tended to parent in more authoritative ways and were less tolerant of physical punishment than their parents. However, several studies have also found that foreign-born parents use physical punishment less frequently than U.S.-born parents (Altschul & Lee, 2011;Lee & Altschul, 2015;Taylor et al, 2009).…”

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The Conditions That Promote or Discourage Physical Punishment as Described by Taiwanese and Taiwanese American Mothers

Lin

2020

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Physical punishment and the conditions that promote and discourage its use were explored in a sample of Taiwan-born mothers living in Taiwan ( n = 19) and the United States ( n = 15), and U.S.-born Taiwanese American mothers ( n = 15). Grounded theory was used to extract themes from focus group transcriptions. Mothers from all groups indicated that they preferred a variety of nonphysical methods to correct their children’s misbehaviors. U.S.-born mothers were less likely to report use of violent/forceful physical punishment than the other two groups. Some conditions were associated with mothers’ use of physical punishment, such as holding traditional gender beliefs, believing in filial piety and familism, having experienced physical punishment, receiving support from others for physical punishment, experiencing physical punishment as being effective for one’s child, and having a male child. However, other conditions were associated with the rejection of physical punishment, including believing in saving face or the stereotype that physical punishment is illegal in the United States, having personally experienced physical punishment as negative, having experienced nonphysical discipline/punishment, experiencing physical punishment of one’s child as ineffective, and experiencing regret from physical punishment use. Conditions related to physical punishment use and rejection ranged from distal to proximal, and these independently and interactively influenced choices to use physical punishment or not. Findings emphasize the complexity of caregivers’ decisions to use or reject physical punishment, underscoring both maternal experiences and cultural contributions, and highlighting areas that researchers and interventionists may further explore to reduce the use of physical punishment.

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Intergenerational Differences in Parenting Styles of Mother–Daughter Dyads Among Immigrants and Native-Born Israelis

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Effect of Ethnicity on Parenting Styles and Attitudes Toward Violence Among Jewish and Arab Muslim Israeli Mothers

Effect of Ethnicity on Parenting Styles and Attitudes Toward Violence Among Jewish and Arab Muslim Israeli Mothers

The concept of a child within sub‐Saharan African migrant homes: Reconciling culture and child rights

The Conditions That Promote or Discourage Physical Punishment as Described by Taiwanese and Taiwanese American Mothers

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