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Introduction to Three Cross-Regional Research Studies on Parenting Styles, Individuation, and Mental Health in Arab SocietiesEmeq Yezreel Academic College and Oranim Academic College, Israel
King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals This is a general introduction to the series of three articles that follows. The study intended to examine cross-regional differences concerning parenting styles, adolescent-family connectedness, and mental health in eight Arab societies. Three questionnaires were administered to 2,893 Arab adolescents in eight Arab societies: Parental Authority Questionnaire, Multigenerational Interconnectedness Scale, and Psychological State Scale. The results of the analysis are presented in the following reports. The strength of our study is in the size and diversity of the sample, whereas its limitation is that all the study results are based on adolescents' self-report. To validate our results, more research is needed using other measures such as parents' self-report and observations of parents and adolescents.
Key Words: parenting connectedness individuation mental health Arab Muslim culture collective
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 37, No. 3,
221-229 (2006) |
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