Endorsement of parental authority in adolescence: Bedouin vs. Jewish adolescents in Israel

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

Dominique-Esther Seroussi¹  Yosi Yaffe²  Sale Kharanbeh² 

[1] Ohalo Academic College;School of Education, Ohalo Academic College;

关键词: Parental authority;    domain;    adolescents;    Bedouin;    Jewish;   

DOI  :  10.1080/02673843.2017.1318768

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The study examines Bedouin and Jewish adolescents’ endorsement of parental authority, in an attempt to clarify the role of culture in the context of parent–child authority relations in the family. It included 412 Jewish adolescents (213 boys; 199 girls) with age ranges from 12 to 17 ($ \bar{X} $ = 14.39; SD = 1.26), and 130 Bedouin adolescents (78 boys; 50 girls; 2 participants did not report their sex) with an identical age range ($ \bar{X} $ = 14.79; SD = 1.71). Participants filled in the Parental Authority Instrument (PAI; Yaffe, ), designed to measure the child’s perceptions of his parents’ legitimate authority regarding 28 items representing common parent–child conflicts in adolescence. The children’s age was significantly correlated with the two parental authority scales (the child’s obligation to obey and the parent’s right to set rules) only for the Jewish group. Bedouin adolescents perceived their parents’ authority as more legitimate than Jews adolescents did for most domains, particularly for the personal domain.

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