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Parental Attitudes: A Study of German, Greek, and Second Generation Greek Migrant Adolescents

Westfalia Clinic for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Marl-Sinsen, Germany

B. D. Kirkcaldy

Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

J. A. Athanasou

University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

The adaptation of attitudes toward parents following migration was tested in a transnational study of Greek, German, and second-generation immigrant Greek adolescents in Germany (N = 342). Three major factors resulted on the first section of the Attitudes Towards Parents Inventory and these corresponded to parental involvement, achievement motivation, and family cohesion. Principal component analysis of the second section extracted the two factors obedience and parental conflict. Greeks per se (i.e., migrants and nonmigrants) shared the characteristic of higher levels of achievement motivation, otherwise the second generation Greeks were more similar to adolescents from their "host" country. Several gender differences emerged. The results are discussed within the framework of cultural integration vs. pluralism.

Key Words: migration • attitudes • family relationships • adolescence • cross-cultural

Human Relations, Vol. 49, No. 6, 837-851 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/001872679604900606


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