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ERIC Number: EJ741015
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 30
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0743-5584
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Parenting and Adolescent Identity: A Study of Indian Families in New Delhi and Geneva
Sapru, Saloni
Journal of Adolescent Research, v21 n5 p484-513 2006
This article examines the ancestral and acculturated cultural meanings in immigrant Indian parenting and adolescent identity using the independence-interdependence dimension as the focus. Forty Indian parents and their adolescents in Delhi, India, and Geneva, Switzerland, were interviewed using open-ended questions and scenarios. Adolescents also completed a contextual version of the Twenty Statements Test. Results showed beliefs and practices to be similar for the two groups of parents except that immigrant parents in Geneva placed greater emphasis on traditional Indian culture at home. Self-other constructions of identity measures showed Geneva adolescents to have fewer attributes of interdependence compared to their counterparts in Delhi. Case study analysis further demonstrated how immigrant adolescents construct their self-other relations to synthesize the ancestral and acculturated values of their parents and the host society. (Contains 5 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India; Switzerland (Geneva)
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