Family obligations and individuation among immigrant youth: Do generational status and age at immigration matter? |
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| Institution: | 1. Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China;2. Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China, China;3. South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen 518055, China;1. Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York;2. Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York;3. Department of Community Health, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia;1. Older Adult Psychology Department, North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, King’s Wood Centre, Colchester General Hospital, Turner Road, Colchester CO4 5JY, United Kingdom;2. School of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom;3. School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, United Kingdom;1. Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany;2. Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany;3. Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany;4. Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich (FZJ), Jülich, Germany;5. Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Germany;6. Division of Medical Genetics, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland;7. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany;8. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany;9. Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Immigrant children and adolescents often assume parental roles in their families and may feel guilty about psychologically separating and individuating from the family. However, little is known about this phenomenon and youth' generational status and age at immigration. We investigated various aspects of family obligations (instrumental and emotional roles, language and culture brokering, perceived unfairness) and individuation among 302 immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel: first-generation (n = 44) and second-generation immigrant adolescents (n = 56); young adults who had arrived in Israel before the age of nine (n = 72) and from this age onward (n = 130). Immigrants who had arrived at age nine and older reported adopting more family obligations than other groups. Among the second-generation immigrants, family obligations were related to lower individuation compared to the first-generation immigrants. Possible explanations for the relations between family obligations and individuation according to generational status are suggested. |
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| Keywords: | Family obligations Role reversal Language brokering Immigrant generational status Age at immigration Individuation |
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