Decision-Making Influence in the Family
A Comparison of Turkish Families in Germany and in Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2967847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ute Schonpflug (Entwicklungspsychologie, Martin-Luther-Universität, Brandbergweg 23, 06099 Halle/Saale, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 219-230 |
| Publication date | 2001-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/jcfs.32.2.219 |
| OpenAlex | W2940017287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
In a longitudinal study including 200 Turkish male adolescents from two regions in Germany and 100 in Turkey, power attributions and power discrepancies in decision-making influence between positions in familial dyads were explored. The power attributions were measured by assessing the childrens ratings of their own and their parents influence in decision-making in four main domains: financial issues, childrens affairs and general family decisions. Discrepancy measures were computed for each familial dyad separately (father-mother; father-child; motherchild). Furthermore, the impact of personal resources and normative social attitudes on the attributions were explored. The results show that the family power structure as perceived by male adolescent children are influenced by the cultural context favoring father dominance in Turkish families independent of cultural context. Furthermore, the attributions of decision-making showed a reversed relationship to fathers resource of education. The more educated the fathers the less powerful they were perceived by their sons. With increasing age the sons attributed more power to themselves in Germany but less power to their parents in Turkey. Thus, during adolescent development sons use two different mechanism for reducing power discrepancies between themselves and their parents depending on cultural context. Turkish mothers seem to profit from fathers empathetic parenting style in Germany but not in Turkey. The results were interpreted as favoring a nonnative resource theory that takes into account that with some levels of resources, e.g. education, different social normative attitudes are associated; these attitudes may counterbalance a positive linear resource effect
Attribution · Developmental psychology · Dominance (genetics) · Dyad · Economics · Normative · Political science · Power (physics) · Power structure · Resource dependence theory · Sociology · Turkish · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Early Childhood Education and Development · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.37 |
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| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |