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The Role of Parents in Defining Collective Identity of Arab Adolescents in Israel
Author(s) -
AboudHalabi Yasmin,
Shamai Michal
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/fare.12190
Subject(s) - socialization , identity (music) , political socialization , collective identity , context (archaeology) , politics , social psychology , perception , identity formation , social identity theory , sociology , psychology , gender studies , political science , developmental psychology , self concept , social group , law , geography , physics , archaeology , neuroscience , acoustics , american political science
Arab adolescents in Israel must form a collective identity while living in both a social context that tends to vilify their existence and in a traditional family context that generally shuns modern Israeli society. The authors examined the relationship between perceptions of parental political socialization and the formation of collective identity among 1,241 Arab adolescents living in Israel. The findings suggest that Israeli Arab adolescents' perception of parental political (religious, national Arab–Palestinian, and Israel civic) socialization is statistically associated with the collective identity of adolescents. As hypothesized, parental political socialization mediated the relationship between parent–adolescent relationship quality and adolescents' collective identity. The results indicate a correlation between parental political socialization and collective identity of adolescents. The discussion focuses on the special place of family in the social context of ethno‐religious minorities in a country where the majority perceives the minority as an enemy that endangers the existence of the state.