Inappropriate child rearing practices as perceived by jewish immigrant parents from the former soviet union

Shor, Ron

doi:10.1016/s0145-2134(99)00024-1

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“…The frequency of respondents who suggested verbal threatening and corporal punishment was low (Shor, 2000). However, in his earlier study, Shor (1999) reported that corporal punishment was found to be an acceptable disciplinary method among FSU immigrant parents, and that there was a high level of agreement about which methods were appropriate. Shor also found that conditional love was viewed as a suitable educational method; for example, parents would withdraw their affection from a misbehaving child.…”

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“This Is My Responsibility”: Parental Experience of Former Soviet Union Immigrant Parents in Israel

Yakhnich

2016

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This qualitative study focuses on the parenting experience of immigrant parents from the former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel. Seventeen in-depth open interviews with FSU immigrant parents were conducted. All participants had been living in Israel between one-and-a-half and five years and had adolescent children aged 11 to 17. The central theme that emerges from the interviews is the participants' sense of parental responsibility, which is based on four central components: control, involvement, discipline, and parental guidance. Immigration challenges the participants' abilities to fulfil their responsibilities as parents by exposing them and their children to cultural differences in child-rearing practices and language difficulties. Pressures of work and learning to live in a new culture may lead to a lack of emotional and physical availability to their children. Participants try to cope with these challenges by maintaining child-rearing practices used in the FSU. Many parents report this means of coping as unsuccessful and feel helpless and uncertain in tackling new parental dilemmas posed by immigration.

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“…Traditional Soviet pedagogy encouraged child-rearing methods designed to foster such values as obedience and group-mindedness. Violation of these values could justify punishments in the form of parental withdrawal of love and privileges (Shor, 1999).…”

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“This Is My Responsibility”: Parental Experience of Former Soviet Union Immigrant Parents in Israel

Yakhnich

2016

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“…Gender is also a factor that has been identified in the cross-cultural literature as affecting decision-making about implementing physical punishment, and which could be manifested differently in various cultures (Korbin, 1991;Agathonos-Georgopoulou, 1992). Shor (1999) found a greater legitimacy for the use of physical punishment towards boys than towards girls among immigrants from the FSU.…”

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“…Information about the approach of families in Russia towards physical punishment could be drawn to a certain extent, also, from a study conducted with immigrants from the FSU. Shor (1999) found in a study conducted with 273 immigrant parents from the FSU in Israel that 75% of the sample approved the use of some form of physical punishment. Korbin (1979) notes that in addition to general beliefs about children, communities have varying standards about particular categories of children.…”

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Physical punishment as perceived by parents in Russia: implications for professionals involved in the care of children

Shor

2006

Early Child Development and Care

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To contribute to a knowledge base about the approach of families in Russia towards implementing physical punishment, a study was conducted with 100 parents in St Petersburg. A majority of the participants indicated that it was legitimate to use some measure of physical punishment. The use of an object as a measure was considered acceptable by one-third of the participants, especially towards children in the age range 5-12. Forty percent of the participants thought that physical punishment should be implemented in a less harsh way towards girls. The most frequently mentioned rationale for its implementation was violation of collectivist-based norms. A majority of the participants expressed disapproval for state intervention in the way parents handle inappropriate behavior of children unless the situation was extreme. They also indicated a medium-to-low level of willingness to seek help from formal sources if their child has a problem. Since physical punishment is considered a risk factor for physical abuse, the findings illuminate the necessity for professionals involved in the care of children to design prevention and intervention programs that could reduce this risk.

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“…In contrast to Western middle-class values of independence, individualism, and assertiveness, Eastern Europeans value interdependence, collectivism, and cohesion (Robila, 2004). Therefore, childrearing practices of FSU immigrants are more restrictive and controlling, condone corporal and psychological punishment and do not foster individuation and autonomy (Slonim-Nevo et al, 1999;Shor, 1999;Mirsky, 2001,). While in the past decade, societal transformations altered childrearing practices in Russia, FSU immigrants in Israel are slower to revise their practices and adopt local norms.…”

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Desviación social entre adolescentes inmigrantes procedentes de la antigua Unión Soviética en Israel: Datos y factores de riesgo.

Mirsky

2012

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Título: Desviación social entre adolescentes inmigrantes procedentes de la antigua Unión Soviética en Israel: Datos y factores de riesgo. Resumen: Este trabajo describe los problemas de adaptación de los inmigrantes adolescentes de la antigua Unión Soviética (AUS) en Israel y comenta los factores de riesgo relacionados con estos problemas. En la pasada década, los adolescentes de familias inmigrantes de la AUS, nacidos en su país y en el extranjero, constituían entre el 11 y 10% de su grupo de edad en Israel. Se presentan datos recientes sobre los problemas relacionados con la educación, el abuso de sustancias y la delincuencia entre estos adolescentes. Los datos indican que: a) los inmigrantes de la AUS están sobrerepresentados entre los estudiantes inadaptados en las escuelas y entre los que la abandonan; b) el uso de alcohol y cigarrillos es más común entre los jóvenes inmigrantes de la AUS que entre los adolescentes israelíes no inmigrantes, así como el uso de éxtasis; c) la implicación de los adolescentes inmigrantes de la AUS en actividades criminales es considerable y supera su peso relativo en la población. Las dificultades económicas y de integración en la nueva sociedad se combinan como factores de riesgo para la inadaptación y la delincuencia entre los adolescentes inmigrantes de la AUS. Sin embargo, el factor decisivo que determina el alcance de su inadaptación es la calidad del funcionamiento familiar -cohesión y relaciones familiares, estilo parental y apoyo que los jóvenes inmigrantes reciben de sus padres. Palabras clave: adolescentes inmigrantes; Unión Soviética; inadaptación; delincuencia, padres.Abstract: This paper describes the adjustment problems of immigrant adolescents from the former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel and discussed risk factors for these problems. Adolescents from FSU immigrant families, native-and foreign-born, comprised in the last decade between 11% and 10% of their age-group in Israel. Presented are recent public data on educationrelated problems, substance abuse and delinquency among these adolescents. The data indicate that: a) FSU immigrants are highly overrepresented among maladjusted students in schools and among those who drop out of school; b) the use of alcohol and cigarettes is more common among FSU immigrant youth than among Israeli non-immigrant adolescents as is the use of ecstasy; c) the rate of involvement of FSU immigrant adolescents in criminal activity is considerable and surpasses their relative weight in the population. Economic hardships and difficulties to integrate into the new society combine as risk factors for maladjustment and delinquency among FSU immigrant adolescents. However, the decisive factor that determines the extent of their maladjustment is the quality of family functioning -family cohesion and relationships, parental functioning and the support extended to immigrant youths by their parents.

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Inappropriate child rearing practices as perceived by jewish immigrant parents from the former soviet union

Cited by 22 publications

References 16 publications

“This Is My Responsibility”: Parental Experience of Former Soviet Union Immigrant Parents in Israel

“This Is My Responsibility”: Parental Experience of Former Soviet Union Immigrant Parents in Israel

Physical punishment as perceived by parents in Russia: implications for professionals involved in the care of children

Desviación social entre adolescentes inmigrantes procedentes de la antigua Unión Soviética en Israel: Datos y factores de riesgo.

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