Jenny Kurman
Biographic Data
| ID | 89791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Kurman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurman |
| SIGNATURE | KURMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8192-1749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Perceived Women’s Marital Readiness Within a Society in Transition: The Case of Palestinians in Israel
This study aimed to examine social change in values and social beliefs regarding women’s marital readiness among Palestinians in Israel, as a case study of a society in transition. 360 participants, divided by generation (elders, ages 60 and above versus youngsters, ages 16–19) and residence (urban, Haifa citizens versus rural, Northern Bedouins) filled out questionnaires regarding cultural values, three factors from a Marital Readiness Scale, tw…
Teachers at the crossroads: Culture, empathy, and emotional regulation in Palestinian society in Israel
Exploring the Relationship Between Cultural Orientations and Empathy Among Arab-Palestinian Teachers in Israel: A Mixed-Method Study
This study examined cultural orientations (vertical and horizontal collectivism and individualism) and their relations with cognitive and emotional empathy toward students among 188 Palestinian-Arab teachers in Israel. A mixed-methods study that included quantitative analysis and qualitative interviews with 30 teachers, revealed that this traditional and mostly collectivist population manifested a duality of orientations that is context-dependent…
Is Primacy of Primary Control Universal? Comparisons Between Ideal-Actual Levels of Control Strategies Among Youth and Emerging Adults Across Four Countries
Control strategies are cognitive, affective, and/or behavioral attempts to improve one’s status quo in social situations. A widely cited dichotomy classifies control strategies into two processes: primary and secondary control. Primary control refers to behaviors aimed at changing one’s external realities, whereas secondary control refers to people’s attempts to change themselves. Previous literature has provided conflicting views regarding the i…
Understanding body dissatisfaction and preferences among Palestinian-Arab Women in Israel: Westernization and culturally bound factor
Eating disorders and related psychological features among Arabs and Jews in Israel: Does culture play a moderating role
Eating disorders (EDs) have been documented in various cultural settings. A continuous increase in ED' rates among non-Western cultures (e.g., Arab cultures and East-Asian cultures) has been reported. We aimed to investigate the relations among culture, ED symptoms, and psychological features that are highly relevant in EDs through a cultural comparison of three groups. The groups included female university students in Israel with varying levels …
The Value of Thinking About Feelings Across Cultures: A Preliminary Investigation of the Mentalizing Values Scale
In this proof-of-concept paper, we aimed to conduct a preliminary investigation of a newly developed scale that focuses on what we have termed “mentalizing values”—that is, the extent to which thinking about internal mental states is valued across different cultures. To this end, we report the results of a cross-cultural comparison of mentalizing values, Schwartz’s value dimensions, and two overlapping concepts: externally oriented thinking (EOT)…
A Multifaceted Approach to Measure Creativity across Cultures: The Role of the Centrality of Context in Divergent Thinking Tasks
Creativity is a multifaceted construct, yet traditionally measured as divergent thinking (DT) with originality as its main focus. As originality tends to be discouraged in East Asian cultures, this measurement discrepancy is especially problematic in cross‐cultural studies. Given cultural variations in the centrality of context, in the current study we added two context‐dependent dimensions to frequently used DT tasks: a holism dimension to Torra…
A cross-cultural perspective on facilitators of recycling
Subjective value fulfillment: A new way to study personal values and their consequences
Stereotype Threat and Stereotype Reactance: The Effect of Direct and Indirect Stereotype Manipulations on Performance of Palestinian Citizens of Israel on Achievement Tests
The role of stereotype threat in performance of Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) on the psychometric exam (parallel to the SAT in the United States) was investigated. Two experiments, conducted in field settings, examined the role of stereotype threat in performance of PCI students in psychometric-like tests. Experiment 1, conducted on 135 Arab high school students, indicated that activation of the stereotype pertaining to the lower academic …
Value Fulfillment and Bicultural Identity Integration
What can facilitate bicultural identity integration (BII)? To answer this question, we introduce a new relevant construct-subjective value fulfillment. We contend that the subjective feeling of value fulfillment within a social identity can enhance the motivation to integrate this social identity with other identities. Furthermore, after distinguishing between central, peripheral, and conflictual identities that differ in level of identification,…
Perspectives on Filial Responsibility Among Uprooted Families From South Lebanon
This study focuses on filial responsibilities among uprooted families. Views of 20 mothers and 20 adolescents and young adults from southern Lebanon residing in Israel were compared to identify the roles that adolescent children assume and the perceived effects of these roles. Eight domains of filial responsibilities were agreed upon: language broker, cultural broker, financial supporter and breadwinner, surrogate parent and sibling caretaker, em…
Immigrant's emotional reactions to filial responsibilities and related psychological outcomes
Regulatory Focus as an Explanatory Variable for Cross-Cultural Differences in Achievement-Related Behavior
The main claim of the present study is that regulatory focus (i.e., promotion vs. prevention orientations) is an important explanatory variable of cross-cultural differences in actual and self-reported achievement-related behaviors and preferences, which include a component of autonomy. It adds explained variance in behavior above and beyond that of individualism/collectivism (I/C), and mediates the relations between I/C and behavior. Three studi…
Socializing the uprooted: The case of mothers from South Lebanon (SLA families) residing in Israel
Changing Familial Roles for Immigrant Adolescents From the Former Soviet Union to Israel
This article examines how young immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union during their adolescence perceive and cope with the resulting changes in their family roles. Data collected via interviews and focus groups from adolescents and young adults ( N = 34) revealed six distinct roles: language broker, family navigator, breadwinner, cultural broker, self-caretaker, and counselor. These roles were reported to generate negative effects (e.g…
Cultural regulatory fit and strategies for coping with unsuccessful outcomes
The present research seeks to explain cross‐cultural differences in two strategies for coping with unsuccessful outcomes (consideration of multiple options and persistence) through regulatory fit, a development of the self‐regulation theory. We propose that, because of regulatory fit, eager consideration of multiple options is more encouraged in promotion‐focused cultures, whereas vigilant persistence is more encouraged in prevention‐focused cult…
Developing and Evaluating the Social Axioms Survey in Eleven Countries: Its Relationship With the Five-Factor Model of Personality
Based on a deductive, culturally decentered approach, new items were generated to improve the reliability of the original Social Axioms Survey, which measures individuals' general beliefs about the world. In Study 1, results from 11 countries support the original five-factor structure and achieve higher reliability for the axiom dimensions as measured by the new scale. Moreover, moderate but meaningful associations between axiom and Big-Five pers…
Changing the World Through Changing the Self: Understanding a New Control Strategy Through Self-Reported Coping Plans in Two Cultures
This study proposes a new control strategy, control via self-improvement, in addition to primary and secondary control. This strategy is aimed at an actual external change (primary target), whereas the means to reach the goal is self-improvement (secondary target-the self). A study conducted in Israel and in Hong Kong indicated that the strategy of control via self-improvement exists in the achievement domain and is more prevalent in Hong Kong th…
Promotion, Prevention or Both: Regulatory Focus and Culture Revisited
Regulatory focus theory (e.g., Higgins, 1997) presented a differentiation between promotion orientation, focused on growth and advancement, and prevention orientation, focused on safety and security. Cross-culture differences in these systems generally show that that collectivist, Eastern cultures (mostly East-Asian cultures) are considered as prevention oriented whereas Western cultures are considered as promotion oriented. Two main claims that …
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Study Perceptions of Immigrant Youth
This article illustrates the potential of combining qualitative and quantitative methods to increase understanding of social and cultural phenomena. An example of a multimethod study demonstrates the advantages of this combination. The study investigated perceptions of young people who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. The first stage of the study began as a quantitative study of role reversal in immigration and developed into a …
Unpackaging Cross-Cultural Differences in Initiation Between Israeli Subgroups: Tradition and Control Orientations as Mediating Factors
This study was designed to gain a better understanding of cross-cultural differences in initiation behavior within the relatively Westernized Israeli society. It has been suggested that traditional subgroups in Israel exhibit lower initiation behavior than the majority group and that control orientations mediate this difference based on their high relevance to initiation and their previously established difference in modern versus traditional cul…
Gender, Self-Enhancement, and Self-Regulation of Learning Behaviors in Junior High School
Culture-Level Dimensions of Social Axioms and Their Correlates across 41 Cultures
Leung and colleagues have revealed a five-dimensional structure of social axioms across individuals from five cultural groups. The present research was designed to reveal the culture level factor structure of social axioms and its correlates across 41 nations. An ecological factor analysis on the 60 items of the Social Axioms Survey extracted two factors: Dynamic Externality correlates with value measures tapping collectivism, hierarchy, and cons…
Culture-Level Dimensions of Social Axioms and Their Correlates across 41 Cultures
Leung and colleagues have revealed a five-dimensional structure of social axioms across individuals from five cultural groups. The present research was designed to reveal the culture level factor structure of social axioms and its correlates across 41 nations. An ecological factor analysis on the 60 items of the Social Axioms Survey extracted two factors: Dynamic Externality correlates with value measures tapping collectivism, hierarchy, and cons…
Why is Self-Enhancement Low in Certain Collectivist Cultures: An Investigation of Two Competing Explanations
The purpose of the present study is to compare two alternative explanations for the low self-enhancement that characterizes collectivist cultures: (a) lack of a self-enhancement motive arising from the perceived centrality of others, and (b) cultural restrictions imposed on the self that are manifested by modesty requirements. The validity of the two explanations was investigated in two studies. Study 1 examined how self-enhancement is related to…
Lack of Knowledge of a Culture's Social Axioms and Adaptation Difficulties among Immigrants
Social axioms are the prevailing common and basic beliefs that supposedly guide behavior in a culture. Lack of accurate knowledge about them may therefore interfere with adaptation to a culture. The present study investigated the implications of in accurate of knowledge regarding the Israeli social axioms upon how immigrants from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union have adapted to the Israeli society. Central findings were that a lack of knowled…
Interrelationships among Vertical and Horizontal Collectivism, Modesty, and Self-Enhancement
The study investigated the relationship among self-enhancement, modesty, and vertical and horizontal collectivism-individualism. High school participants from three groups were surveyed: A Singaporean sample ( n = 130), high on vertical collectivism; an Israeli kibbutz sample ( n = 163), high on horizontal collectivism; and an urban individualist Israeli control sample ( n = 144). Self-report of modesty was highest and self- enhancement was lowes…
Changing Familial Roles for Immigrant Adolescents From the Former Soviet Union to Israel
This article examines how young immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union during their adolescence perceive and cope with the resulting changes in their family roles. Data collected via interviews and focus groups from adolescents and young adults ( N = 34) revealed six distinct roles: language broker, family navigator, breadwinner, cultural broker, self-caretaker, and counselor. These roles were reported to generate negative effects (e.g…
Developing and Evaluating the Social Axioms Survey in Eleven Countries: Its Relationship With the Five-Factor Model of Personality
Based on a deductive, culturally decentered approach, new items were generated to improve the reliability of the original Social Axioms Survey, which measures individuals' general beliefs about the world. In Study 1, results from 11 countries support the original five-factor structure and achieve higher reliability for the axiom dimensions as measured by the new scale. Moreover, moderate but meaningful associations between axiom and Big-Five pers…
Self-Enhancement, Generality of Self-Evaluation, and Affectivity in Israel and Singapore
Previous findings from Israel show that self-evaluations are more positive than objective criteria and that they become more positive at more general levels of self-evaluation (Kurman & Eshel, 1996). This article examines whether this manifestation of self-enhancement exists in a more collectivistic culture. Academic self-evaluations obtained from eighth graders in Singapore and Israel revealed self-enhancement in both cultures. For Israelis, the…
Is Self-Enhancement Negatively Related To Constructive Self-Criticism: Self-Enhancement and Self-Criticism in Israel and in Japan
This study investigates the relations between self-enhancement and constructive self-criticism as reflected in retrospective descriptions of past failures given by Israeli and Japanese university students. The implications of these failures were also described by the participants. The study claims that although self-enhancement is negatively related to emotional self-criticism, it is unrelated to constructive self-criticism. It was found that (a)…
Subjective value fulfillment: A new way to study personal values and their consequences
Regulatory Focus as an Explanatory Variable for Cross-Cultural Differences in Achievement-Related Behavior
The main claim of the present study is that regulatory focus (i.e., promotion vs. prevention orientations) is an important explanatory variable of cross-cultural differences in actual and self-reported achievement-related behaviors and preferences, which include a component of autonomy. It adds explained variance in behavior above and beyond that of individualism/collectivism (I/C), and mediates the relations between I/C and behavior. Three studi…
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Study Perceptions of Immigrant Youth
This article illustrates the potential of combining qualitative and quantitative methods to increase understanding of social and cultural phenomena. An example of a multimethod study demonstrates the advantages of this combination. The study investigated perceptions of young people who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. The first stage of the study began as a quantitative study of role reversal in immigration and developed into a …
Value Fulfillment and Bicultural Identity Integration
What can facilitate bicultural identity integration (BII)? To answer this question, we introduce a new relevant construct-subjective value fulfillment. We contend that the subjective feeling of value fulfillment within a social identity can enhance the motivation to integrate this social identity with other identities. Furthermore, after distinguishing between central, peripheral, and conflictual identities that differ in level of identification,…
Immigrant's emotional reactions to filial responsibilities and related psychological outcomes
Cultural regulatory fit and strategies for coping with unsuccessful outcomes
The present research seeks to explain cross‐cultural differences in two strategies for coping with unsuccessful outcomes (consideration of multiple options and persistence) through regulatory fit, a development of the self‐regulation theory. We propose that, because of regulatory fit, eager consideration of multiple options is more encouraged in promotion‐focused cultures, whereas vigilant persistence is more encouraged in prevention‐focused cult…
Unpackaging Cross-Cultural Differences in Initiation Between Israeli Subgroups: Tradition and Control Orientations as Mediating Factors
This study was designed to gain a better understanding of cross-cultural differences in initiation behavior within the relatively Westernized Israeli society. It has been suggested that traditional subgroups in Israel exhibit lower initiation behavior than the majority group and that control orientations mediate this difference based on their high relevance to initiation and their previously established difference in modern versus traditional cul…
Measured Cross-Cultural Differences in Self-Enhancement and the Sensitivity of the Self-Enhancement Measure to the Modesty Response
Two studies show the importance of culturally determined modesty for measured self-enhancement level. The first study shows differences between three self-enhancement measures in their sensitivity to modesty: The measure of academic self-enhancement was found to be the most sensitive to modesty. The above average response was less sensitive, whereas the correlation between criteria for inclusion in a desired group and self-characteristics was fou…
Changing the World Through Changing the Self: Understanding a New Control Strategy Through Self-Reported Coping Plans in Two Cultures
This study proposes a new control strategy, control via self-improvement, in addition to primary and secondary control. This strategy is aimed at an actual external change (primary target), whereas the means to reach the goal is self-improvement (secondary target-the self). A study conducted in Israel and in Hong Kong indicated that the strategy of control via self-improvement exists in the achievement domain and is more prevalent in Hong Kong th…
Gender, Self-Enhancement, and Self-Regulation of Learning Behaviors in Junior High School
Stereotype Threat and Stereotype Reactance: The Effect of Direct and Indirect Stereotype Manipulations on Performance of Palestinian Citizens of Israel on Achievement Tests
The role of stereotype threat in performance of Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) on the psychometric exam (parallel to the SAT in the United States) was investigated. Two experiments, conducted in field settings, examined the role of stereotype threat in performance of PCI students in psychometric-like tests. Experiment 1, conducted on 135 Arab high school students, indicated that activation of the stereotype pertaining to the lower academic …
Perspectives on Filial Responsibility Among Uprooted Families From South Lebanon
This study focuses on filial responsibilities among uprooted families. Views of 20 mothers and 20 adolescents and young adults from southern Lebanon residing in Israel were compared to identify the roles that adolescent children assume and the perceived effects of these roles. Eight domains of filial responsibilities were agreed upon: language broker, cultural broker, financial supporter and breadwinner, surrogate parent and sibling caretaker, em…
Socializing the uprooted: The case of mothers from South Lebanon (SLA families) residing in Israel
Individualised Instruction, Congruent Authority Structure and Student Outcomes
S ummary . Measures of formal and informal authority structure were employed in order to assess academic and non‐academic outcomes of individualised instruction. A sample of 386 fourth and fifth‐grade elementary school children studying in nine individualised and 10 traditional classes was employed. This academic outcomes of either method of instruction were found to be contingent on the congruence between formal and informal authority structure:…
Academic Self‐concept, Accuracy of Perceived Ability and Academic Attainment
S ummary . Self‐concept theories have emphasised the crucial importance of developing a realistic self‐image. Positive self‐regard with a realistic basis should differ in its relations to both antecedents and outcomes from similar self‐assessment which has no such basis. However, the feasibility of studying accuracy of self‐concept empirically was seriously questioned due to the absence of a criterion determining what the individual actually is. …
Self-Enhancement, Generality of Self-Evaluation, and Affectivity in Israel and Singapore
Previous findings from Israel show that self-evaluations are more positive than objective criteria and that they become more positive at more general levels of self-evaluation (Kurman & Eshel, 1996). This article examines whether this manifestation of self-enhancement exists in a more collectivistic culture. Academic self-evaluations obtained from eighth graders in Singapore and Israel revealed self-enhancement in both cultures. For Israelis, the…
Self-Enhancement: Is it Restricted to Individualistic Cultures?
Two studies investigated how self-enhancement relates to interdependent and independent self-construals typical of collectivist and individualist cultures, respectively. Participants from three cultures were surveyed, two of them collectivist (Singaporean Chinese and Israeli Druze) and one individualist (Israeli Jews). Study 1 shows that the two collectivist cultures differ in their self-enhancement level among university students: Self-enhanceme…
Self-Regulation Strategies in Achievement Settings: Culture and Gender Differences
The study investigates culture and gender differences in a specific self-regulation task: choosing a level of difficulty that will maximize achievement. Two hundred psychology students from Singapore and Israel accomplished a computerized anagram-solving task that allowed participants to choose a level of difficulty (25 trials, six difficulty levels). In this task, the number of points given for correct solutions was increased as the difficulty l…
Measured Cross-Cultural Differences in Self-Enhancement and the Sensitivity of the Self-Enhancement Measure to the Modesty Response
Two studies show the importance of culturally determined modesty for measured self-enhancement level. The first study shows differences between three self-enhancement measures in their sensitivity to modesty: The measure of academic self-enhancement was found to be the most sensitive to modesty. The above average response was less sensitive, whereas the correlation between criteria for inclusion in a desired group and self-characteristics was fou…
Interrelationships among Vertical and Horizontal Collectivism, Modesty, and Self-Enhancement
The study investigated the relationship among self-enhancement, modesty, and vertical and horizontal collectivism-individualism. High school participants from three groups were surveyed: A Singaporean sample ( n = 130), high on vertical collectivism; an Israeli kibbutz sample ( n = 163), high on horizontal collectivism; and an urban individualist Israeli control sample ( n = 144). Self-report of modesty was highest and self- enhancement was lowes…
Why is Self-Enhancement Low in Certain Collectivist Cultures: An Investigation of Two Competing Explanations
The purpose of the present study is to compare two alternative explanations for the low self-enhancement that characterizes collectivist cultures: (a) lack of a self-enhancement motive arising from the perceived centrality of others, and (b) cultural restrictions imposed on the self that are manifested by modesty requirements. The validity of the two explanations was investigated in two studies. Study 1 examined how self-enhancement is related to…
Is Self-Enhancement Negatively Related To Constructive Self-Criticism: Self-Enhancement and Self-Criticism in Israel and in Japan
This study investigates the relations between self-enhancement and constructive self-criticism as reflected in retrospective descriptions of past failures given by Israeli and Japanese university students. The implications of these failures were also described by the participants. The study claims that although self-enhancement is negatively related to emotional self-criticism, it is unrelated to constructive self-criticism. It was found that (a)…
Gender, Self-Enhancement, and Self-Regulation of Learning Behaviors in Junior High School
Culture-Level Dimensions of Social Axioms and Their Correlates across 41 Cultures
Leung and colleagues have revealed a five-dimensional structure of social axioms across individuals from five cultural groups. The present research was designed to reveal the culture level factor structure of social axioms and its correlates across 41 nations. An ecological factor analysis on the 60 items of the Social Axioms Survey extracted two factors: Dynamic Externality correlates with value measures tapping collectivism, hierarchy, and cons…
Lack of Knowledge of a Culture's Social Axioms and Adaptation Difficulties among Immigrants
Social axioms are the prevailing common and basic beliefs that supposedly guide behavior in a culture. Lack of accurate knowledge about them may therefore interfere with adaptation to a culture. The present study investigated the implications of in accurate of knowledge regarding the Israeli social axioms upon how immigrants from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union have adapted to the Israeli society. Central findings were that a lack of knowled…
Unpackaging Cross-Cultural Differences in Initiation Between Israeli Subgroups: Tradition and Control Orientations as Mediating Factors
This study was designed to gain a better understanding of cross-cultural differences in initiation behavior within the relatively Westernized Israeli society. It has been suggested that traditional subgroups in Israel exhibit lower initiation behavior than the majority group and that control orientations mediate this difference based on their high relevance to initiation and their previously established difference in modern versus traditional cul…
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Study Perceptions of Immigrant Youth
This article illustrates the potential of combining qualitative and quantitative methods to increase understanding of social and cultural phenomena. An example of a multimethod study demonstrates the advantages of this combination. The study investigated perceptions of young people who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. The first stage of the study began as a quantitative study of role reversal in immigration and developed into a …
Promotion, Prevention or Both: Regulatory Focus and Culture Revisited
Regulatory focus theory (e.g., Higgins, 1997) presented a differentiation between promotion orientation, focused on growth and advancement, and prevention orientation, focused on safety and security. Cross-culture differences in these systems generally show that that collectivist, Eastern cultures (mostly East-Asian cultures) are considered as prevention oriented whereas Western cultures are considered as promotion oriented. Two main claims that …
Cultural regulatory fit and strategies for coping with unsuccessful outcomes
The present research seeks to explain cross‐cultural differences in two strategies for coping with unsuccessful outcomes (consideration of multiple options and persistence) through regulatory fit, a development of the self‐regulation theory. We propose that, because of regulatory fit, eager consideration of multiple options is more encouraged in promotion‐focused cultures, whereas vigilant persistence is more encouraged in prevention‐focused cult…
Developing and Evaluating the Social Axioms Survey in Eleven Countries: Its Relationship With the Five-Factor Model of Personality
Based on a deductive, culturally decentered approach, new items were generated to improve the reliability of the original Social Axioms Survey, which measures individuals' general beliefs about the world. In Study 1, results from 11 countries support the original five-factor structure and achieve higher reliability for the axiom dimensions as measured by the new scale. Moreover, moderate but meaningful associations between axiom and Big-Five pers…
Changing the World Through Changing the Self: Understanding a New Control Strategy Through Self-Reported Coping Plans in Two Cultures
This study proposes a new control strategy, control via self-improvement, in addition to primary and secondary control. This strategy is aimed at an actual external change (primary target), whereas the means to reach the goal is self-improvement (secondary target-the self). A study conducted in Israel and in Hong Kong indicated that the strategy of control via self-improvement exists in the achievement domain and is more prevalent in Hong Kong th…
Changing Familial Roles for Immigrant Adolescents From the Former Soviet Union to Israel
This article examines how young immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union during their adolescence perceive and cope with the resulting changes in their family roles. Data collected via interviews and focus groups from adolescents and young adults ( N = 34) revealed six distinct roles: language broker, family navigator, breadwinner, cultural broker, self-caretaker, and counselor. These roles were reported to generate negative effects (e.g…
Socializing the uprooted: The case of mothers from South Lebanon (SLA families) residing in Israel
Immigrant's emotional reactions to filial responsibilities and related psychological outcomes
Regulatory Focus as an Explanatory Variable for Cross-Cultural Differences in Achievement-Related Behavior
The main claim of the present study is that regulatory focus (i.e., promotion vs. prevention orientations) is an important explanatory variable of cross-cultural differences in actual and self-reported achievement-related behaviors and preferences, which include a component of autonomy. It adds explained variance in behavior above and beyond that of individualism/collectivism (I/C), and mediates the relations between I/C and behavior. Three studi…
Perspectives on Filial Responsibility Among Uprooted Families From South Lebanon
This study focuses on filial responsibilities among uprooted families. Views of 20 mothers and 20 adolescents and young adults from southern Lebanon residing in Israel were compared to identify the roles that adolescent children assume and the perceived effects of these roles. Eight domains of filial responsibilities were agreed upon: language broker, cultural broker, financial supporter and breadwinner, surrogate parent and sibling caretaker, em…
Stereotype Threat and Stereotype Reactance: The Effect of Direct and Indirect Stereotype Manipulations on Performance of Palestinian Citizens of Israel on Achievement Tests
The role of stereotype threat in performance of Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) on the psychometric exam (parallel to the SAT in the United States) was investigated. Two experiments, conducted in field settings, examined the role of stereotype threat in performance of PCI students in psychometric-like tests. Experiment 1, conducted on 135 Arab high school students, indicated that activation of the stereotype pertaining to the lower academic …
Value Fulfillment and Bicultural Identity Integration
What can facilitate bicultural identity integration (BII)? To answer this question, we introduce a new relevant construct-subjective value fulfillment. We contend that the subjective feeling of value fulfillment within a social identity can enhance the motivation to integrate this social identity with other identities. Furthermore, after distinguishing between central, peripheral, and conflictual identities that differ in level of identification,…
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