TY - JOUR
T1 - The mother and the motherland
T2 - Their internal representations among immigrant and non-immigrant adolescents
AU - Walsh, Sophie D.
AU - Tartakovsky, Eugene
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - This paper studies associations between internal representations that adolescents hold for their mothers and internal representations of the country they belong to, and the extent to which such internal representations impact on psychological adjustment. Two studies were conducted: the first with 328 Russian adolescents in Russia, and the second with 178 Jewish adolescent immigrants from Russia in Israel. In both samples, representations of the mother as caring were significantly related to the adolescents' positive attitudes towards their country of living. In addition, the adolescents' positive attitudes towards country of living were significantly related to their psychological adjustment, over and above internal representations of mother. Findings suggest the importance of theories of internal representations for understanding the dynamics of the adolescents' attachment to social objects and their psychological adjustment.
AB - This paper studies associations between internal representations that adolescents hold for their mothers and internal representations of the country they belong to, and the extent to which such internal representations impact on psychological adjustment. Two studies were conducted: the first with 328 Russian adolescents in Russia, and the second with 178 Jewish adolescent immigrants from Russia in Israel. In both samples, representations of the mother as caring were significantly related to the adolescents' positive attitudes towards their country of living. In addition, the adolescents' positive attitudes towards country of living were significantly related to their psychological adjustment, over and above internal representations of mother. Findings suggest the importance of theories of internal representations for understanding the dynamics of the adolescents' attachment to social objects and their psychological adjustment.
KW - Israel
KW - Russia
KW - attachment to social objects
KW - high-school adolescents
KW - internal representations of a country
KW - internal representations of mothers
KW - psychological adjustment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858666872&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14616734.2012.661231
DO - 10.1080/14616734.2012.661231
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AN - SCOPUS:84858666872
SN - 1461-6734
VL - 14
SP - 185
EP - 204
JO - Attachment and Human Development
JF - Attachment and Human Development
IS - 2
ER -