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Benbow, Alison E. F.; Aumann, Lara; Paizan, Madalina A.; Titzmann, Peter F. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Perceived social support can help immigrant youth to deal with developmental acculturation: the simultaneous resolution of developmental and acculturative tasks. This person-oriented three-wave comparative study investigated perceived social support trajectories in two immigrant and one non-immigrant group. We investigated whether similar social…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Immigrants, Youth, Acculturation
Flum, Hanoch; Buzukashvili, Tamara – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2018
This paper examines a major aspect of identity development in the context of cultural transition. Following Eriksonian psychosocial and sociocultural perspectives, it investigates self-continuity and identity integration in light of inherent discontinuity among young immigrants. More specifically, this examination draws on three distinct narrative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Identification (Psychology), Acculturation
Seginer, Rachel; Mahajna, Sami – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2018
Using adolescents' narratives and survey data presented in earlier studies, we draw upon Berry's model of four acculturation strategies (2015) to examine adolescents' narratives regarding the future orientation domains of education-and-career and marriage-and-family (Seginer, 2009) by three groups of nonimmigrant minority adolescents in Israel:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acculturation, Adolescents, Arabs
Lieblich, Amia – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2014
This chapter examines differential circumstances whereby aging individuals construct their selves as a narrative or, alternatively, seem to prefer other routes to manifest their identity. The preliminary exploration of questions about the characteristics of those aged who prefer to tell and those who do not, as well as the salutary role of…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Older Adults, Jews, Foreign Countries
Shulman, Shmuel; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2010
In recent years young people's lives have been characterized by postponement of developmental timetables, inconsistencies of transitions, and loss of direction in life. Data from a longitudinal study of Israeli young adults show that the capacity for setting realistic work and love goals reflects inner strengths and is associated with adaptive…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Young Adults, Personality Traits, Adolescents
Scharf, Miri; Mayseless, Ofra – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2010
Finding and cultivating a sense of authentic self is an important life goal for emerging adults. In collectivist cultures, youngsters might need to distance themselves to find and discover their authentic selves separate of the expectations of society and significant others. Creating an autonomous time bubble that focuses on the present allows…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Self Concept, Well Being, Young Adults
Seginer, Rachel; Shoyer, Shirli; Hossessi, Rabiaa; Tannous, Hyam – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2007
Peer relations are perceived to be more strongly related to family relationships for Israeli Arab and Druze adolescents than for Israeli Jewish adolescents growing up in a neighboring but socioculturally different society. However, when family relations are poor, Jewish adolescents draw greater support from peers than do Arab and Druze adolescents.
Descriptors: Jews, Family Relationship, Arabs, Adolescents
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Mayseless, Ofra; Scharf, Miri – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2003
Examined conceptions of adulthood among adolescents, emerging adults, and parents of adolescents in Israel. Found widespread support for individualistic criteria for adulthood, such as accepting responsibility for one's actions, deciding on one's own beliefs and values, and becoming financially independent. Found considerable support for…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Age Differences, Criteria, Cultural Differences
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Killen, Melanie; Wainryb, Cecilia – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2000
Argues that the individualistic-collectivistic dichotomy results in mislabeling both cultures and individuals. Discusses ways in which individualistic concerns with independence and collectivistic concerns with interdependence coexist in Western and non-Western cultures. Outlines a theoretical framework explaining the coexistence of diverse social…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Cultural Traits