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GSBC Brown-Bag-Seminar by Elif S. Durgel (Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences)

“Parenting Beliefs and Practices of Turkish Immigrant and Dutch Mothers in the Netherlands”

Date: Wed 30th May 2012, 12:00 - 13:30
Location: Room 102 (1st Floor, Bachstr. 18, building K)
Time: 12 s.t.
Language: English

Abstract

Parents all over the world share certain characteristics that are found to be intuitive and universal such as caring and nurturing their children; however, they also differ a great deal in the ways they display the task of taking care of and nurturing their children. Most of the child-rearing beliefs and practices vary depending on the socioeconomic and cultural background of the parents. One of the major tasks of developmental psychology in the last decades has been to explain how cultural and socioeconomic context influences children’s development, and many studies have investigated the relationship between culture and parenting beliefs and practices; however, these studies have mostly examined differences between two cultures. Nevertheless, in the literature, there are few studies that have examined parenting beliefs and practices in relation to immigration and acculturation. Examining parenting beliefs and practices in immigration context would provide us with valuable information on the dynamics of parenting patterns among immigrant mothers. In my research, I aimed to examine how cultural background and socioeconomic factors relate to parenting beliefs and practices. Secondly, I investigated the role of immigration background and acculturation in immigrant mothers’ parenting patterns. In this meeting, I will focus on the research I have done on parenting beliefs and practices of Turkish immigrant and Dutch mainstream mothers in the Netherlands and how Turkish mothers’ parenting pattern is related to their acculturation background.

You are cordially invited to this talk.