Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-76dd75c94c-5fx6p Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-30T09:00:33.761Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

13 - Immigrant Parents' Age Expectations for the Development of Their Adolescent Offspring: Transmission Effects and Changes after Immigration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
Eva Schmitt-Rodermund  and
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Edited by
Ute Schönpflug
Ute Schönpflug
Affiliation:
Freie Universität Berlin
Get access

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Immigration often takes place from traditional developing countries into modern industrialized cultures and is related to a whole range of changes in the living conditions of an individual. The confrontation with an unfamiliar value system is one of the most important challenges in the life of an immigrant (Schmitt-Rodermund & Silbereisen, 2008). Whereas adolescents tend to adjust relatively quickly to such a situation – in part because of their higher competence in language acquisition – their parents sometimes have more trouble developing new perspectives and acquiring new skills (Feldman, Mont-Reynaud, & Rosenthal, 1992; Süss, 1995). Unemployment of the breadwinner may add to a situation of shifted roles within the family in favor of the adolescents (Hehl & Ponge, 1997). The goal of this chapter is to shed light on the process of adaptation for parents of immigrant adolescents. The target group of the study consists of ethnic Germans who arrive in what they deem their country of origin from states that were formerly known as the Eastern Bloc. However, their ancestors have lived in Russia, Poland, or Romania for many generations and, therefore, they can be considered true immigrants (Silbereisen & Schmitt-Rodermund, 2000). They have kept their in-group language of German and customs (e.g., the celebration of Christmas). This group is being studied to clarify issues related to value orientations, especially age expectations or timetables for adolescent developmental transitions to behavioral autonomy.

Type
Chapter
Information
Cultural Transmission
Psychological, Developmental, Social, and Methodological Aspects
 , pp. 297 - 314
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Alsaker, F. D., & Flammer, A. (1999). The adolescent experience: European and American adolescents in the 1990s. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.Google Scholar
Arbuckle, J. L., & Wothke, W. (1999). AMOS 4.0 user's guide. Chicago, IL: Small Waters Corporation.Google Scholar
Collins, W. A. (1990). Parent–child relationships in the transition to adolescence: Continuity and change in interaction, affect, and cognition. In Montemayor, R., Adams, G. R., & Gullota, T. G. (Eds.), From childhood to adolescence: A transitional period? (pp. 85–106). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.Google Scholar
Deeds, O., Stewart, S. M., Bond, M. H., & Westrick, J. (1998). Adolescents between cultures: Values and autonomy expectations in an international school setting. School Psychology International, 19, 61–77.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feldman, S. S., Mont-Reynaud, R., & Rosenthal, D. A. (1992). When East moves West: The acculturation of values of Chinese adolescents in the U.S. and Australia. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2, 147–174.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feldman, S. S., & Quatman, T. (1988). Factors influencing age expectations for adolescent autonomy: A study of early adolescents and parents. Journal of Early Adolescence, 8, 325–343.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feldman, S. S., & Rosenthal, D. A. (1990). The acculturation of autonomy expectations in Chinese high-schoolers residing in two Western nations. International Journal of Psychology, 25, 259–281.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feldman, S. S., & Rosenthal, D. A. (1991). Age expectations of behavioral autonomy in Hong Kong, Australian and American youth: The influence of family variables and adolescents' values. International Journal of Psychology, 26, 1–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goodnow, J. J., Cashmore, J., Cotton, S., & Knight, R. (1984). Mother's developmental timetables in two cultural groups. International Journal of Psychology, 19, 193–205.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hehl, F. J., & Ponge, I. (1997). Der Prozess der Aussiedlung: Veränderung von familiären Strukturen [The process of emigration: Changes in familial structures]. System Familie, 10, 10–20.Google Scholar
Hess, R. D., Kashiwagi, K., Azuma, H., Price, G. G., & Dickson, P. (1980). Maternal expectations for mastery of developmental tasks in Japan and the United States. International Journal of Psychology, 15, 259–271.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hofstede, G. (2001). Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.Google Scholar
Juang, L. P., Lerner, J. V., McKinney, J. P., & Eye, A. (1999). The goodness of fit in autonomy timetable expectations between Asian-American late adolescents and their parents. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 23, 1023–1048.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kerr, M., & Stattin, H. (2000). What parents know, how they know it, and several forms of adolescent adjustment: Further support for a reinterpretation of monitoring. Developmental Psychology, 36, 366–380.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kerr, M., & Stattin, H. (2003). Parenting of adolescents: Action or reaction? In Crouter, A. C. & Booth, A. (Eds.), Children's influence of family dynamics: The neglected side of family relationships (pp. 121–151). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.Google Scholar
Kim, U., Triandis, H. C., Kagitcibasi, C., Choi, S. C., & Yoon, G. (Eds.) (1994). Individualism and collectivism: Theory, method, and applications. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Kohn, M. L. (1983). On the transmission of values in the family: A preliminary formulation. In Kerckhoff, A. C.. (Ed.), Research in sociology of education and socialization (Vol. 4, pp. 3–12). Greenwich, CT: JAI.Google Scholar
Kohn, M. L., Slomczynski, K. M., & Schoenbach, C. (1986). Social stratification and the transmission of values in the family: A cross-national assessment. Sociological Forum, 1, 73–102.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Krebs, U., & Schnell, B. (1987). Alltägliche Bezugssysteme als Maß der Integration deutscher Spätaussiedler aus Rumänien [Measures of integration of ethnic German immigrants from Romania]. Psychologische Beiträge, 29, 676–689.Google Scholar
Lantermann, E. D., & Hänze, M. (1995). Werthaltungen und materieller Erfolg bei Aussiedlern [Values and economic success among ethnic German immigrants]. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 26, 15–23.Google Scholar
Nauck, B. (1997). Intergenerative Konflikte und gesundheitliches Wohlbefinden in türkischen Familien: Ein interkultureller und interkontextueller Vergleich [Intergenerational conflicts and health-related well-being among Turkish families: An intercultural and intercontextual comparison]. In Nauck, B. & Schönpflug, U. (Eds.), Familien in verschiedenen Kulturen (pp. 324–354). Stuttgart, Germany: Enke.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Phalet, K., & Schönpflug, U. (2001). Intergenerational transmission of collectivism and achievement values in two acculturation contexts: The case of Turkish families in Germany and Turkish and Moroccan families in the Netherlands. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 32, 186–201.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roer-Strier, D., & Rivlis, M. (1998). Timetable of psychological and behavioral autonomy expectations among parents from Israel and the former Soviet Union. International Journal of Psychology, 33, 123–135.Google Scholar
Rosenthal, D. A., Bell, R., Demetriou, A., & Efklides, A. (1989). From collectivism to individualism? The acculturation of Greek immigrants in Australia. International Journal of Psychology, 24, 57–71.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rosenthal, D. A., & Bornholt, L. (1988). Expectations about development in Greek- and Anglo-Australian families. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 19, 19–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rosenthal, D. A., & Gold, R. (1989). A comparison of Vietnamese-Australian and Anglo-Australian mothers' beliefs about intellectual development. International Journal of Psychology, 24, 179–193.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rosenthal, D., Ranieri, N., & Klimidis, S. (1996) Vietnamese adolescents in Australia: Relationships between perceptions of self and parental values, intergenerational conflict, and gender dissatisfaction. International Journal of Psychology, 31, 81–91.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schmidt, N., & Dannhauer, H. (1989). Die erziehungspsychologische Problematik der Kinder von Spätaussiedlern aus osteuropäischen Ländern [The problems of parenting and education in children of ethnic German immigrants]. Unsere Jugend, 41, 12–20.Google Scholar
Schmitt-Rodermund, E. (1997). Akkulturation und Entwicklung: Eine Studie unter jungen Aussiedlern. [Acculturation and development]. Weinheim: Beltz-Psychologie Verlags Union.Google Scholar
Schmitt-Rodermund, E. (in press). Immigration. In Silbereisen, R. M. & Hasselhorn, M. (Eds.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Serie V (Entwicklung), Vol. 5: Psychologie des Jugendalters [Encyclopedia of psychology, Series V, Vol. 5: Psychology of adolescence]. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Schmitt-Rodermund, E., & Roebers, C. M. (1999). Akkulturation oder Entwicklung? Veränderungen von Autonomieerwartungen bei Einheimischen und Kindern aus Aussiedlerfamilien [Acculturation or development? Changes in autonomy expectations among local and ethnic German immigrant adolescents]. Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht, 46, 161–176.Google Scholar
Schmitt-Rodermund, E., & Silbereisen, R. K. (1999). Determinants of differential acculturation of developmental timetables among adolescent immigrants to Germany. International Journal of Psychology, 34, 219–233.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schmitt-Rodermund, E., & Silbereisen, R. K. (2008). Akkulturation und Entwicklung: Jugendliche Immigranten [Acculturation and development – adolescent immigrants]. In Oerter, R. & Montada, L. (Eds.) Entwicklungspsychologie (6th Edition) (pp. 859–873). Weinheim: Psychologie Verlags Union.Google Scholar
Schönpflug, U. (2001). Intergenerational transmission of values: The role of transmission belts. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 32, 174–185.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Silbereisen, R. K., & Schmitt-Rodermund, E. (2000). Adolescent immigrants' well-being: The case of ethnic German immigrants in Germany. International Journal of Group Tensions, 29, 79–100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smetana, J. G., Daddis, C., & Chuang, S. S. (2003). “Clean your room!”: A longitudinal investigation of adolescent–parent conflict and conflict resolution in middle-class African American families. Journal of Adolescent Research, 18, 631–650.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Spiel, C. (1992). Adolescents and parents perceive each other: Do match and mismatch indicate the quality of relationships? Paper presented at the V. European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Seville, Spain, 6–9 September.Google Scholar
Steinberg, L. (1990). Autonomy, conflict, and harmony in the family relationship. In Feldman, S. S. & Elliott, G. R. (Eds.), At the threshold: The developing adolescent (pp. 255–276). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Steinberg, L., & Silverberg, S. (1986). The vicissitudes of autonomy in early adolescence. Child Development, 57, 841–851.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Stewart, S. M., Bond, M. H., Deeds, O., & Chung, S. F. (1999). Intergenerational patterns of values and autonomy expectations in cultures of relatedness and separatedness. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 30, 575–593.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Süss, W. (1995). Zur psychosozialen Situation der Aussiedlerkinder und – jugendlichen (The psychosocial situation of repatriate children and adolescents). Sozialwissenschaften und Berufspraxis, 18, 131–146.Google Scholar
Taris, T. W. (2000). Quality of mother–child interaction and the intergenerational transmission of sexual values: A panel study. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 161, 169–181.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Trommsdorff, G. (1989). Sozialisation und Werthaltungen im Kulturvergleich. In Trommsdorff, G. (Ed.). Sozialisation im Kulturvergleich (pp. 97–121). Stuttgart: Enke.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vollebergh, W. A. M. (2001). Intergenerational transmission and the formation of cultural orientations in adolescence and young adulthood. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 63, 1185–1198.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weichold, K., Silbereisen, R. K., Schmitt-Rodermund, E., Vorwerk, L., & Miltner, W. H. R. (in press). Links between timing of puberty and behavioral indicators of individuation. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Wiesner, M., & Silbereisen, R. K. (2003). Trajectories to delinquent behaviour in adolescence and their covariates: Relations with initial and time-averaged factors. Journal of Adolescence, 26, 753–771.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×