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Does a Mediterranean Model of Family Functioning in the Perception of Italian and Spanish Adolescents Exist? A Cross-National Study
Marco CacioppoChiara LaudaniValentina Lo CascioGiovanni GuzzoUgo Pacesubject
Mediterranean climateFamily tiesEnmeshmentGeneral Arts and Humanitiesmedia_common.quotation_subjectFamily functioningGeneral Social Scienceslcsh:Social Scienceslcsh:HPerceptionFamily modelEmpirical evidencePsychologyGeneral Economics Econometrics and FinanceSocial psychologyCross nationalmedia_commondescription
The current study explored the influence of belonging to a different areas, South of Italy and Spain, on perception of parenting and family functioning adolescents in order to highlight the similarities and differences among two samples and verify if Mediterranean model of family exists”. Empirical evidence of the existence of a Mediterranean family model has been conducted to verify which common and differentiating features exist in the perception of family ties among adolescents. Data highlighted that adolescents belonging to these areas report similar levels in different component of familial ties that can be defined as “Links and Roles”: On the contrary, important differences were underlined on the perception of levels of rigidity and enmeshment within family: on the base of Marcia’s model of identity status, we called this dimension “Foreclosure status”. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n1p377
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 | Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences |