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Intergenerational Transmission of Gendered Attitudes Among Second-Generation Adolescents: The Role Culture Plays in Modifying the Transmission of Gender Ideology from Immigrant Mothers to Their Children

Gender and Generations: Continuity and Change

ISBN: 978-1-80071-033-7, eISBN: 978-1-80071-032-0

Publication date: 15 March 2021

Abstract

Past literature has focused on the intergenerational transmission of gender ideologies, without considering the role cultural context plays. That is, while it is understood that there is a positive relationship between mothers’ gender ideology and that of their adolescents, how might this relationship differ among foreign-born mothers and their native-born adolescent children? This chapter extends the literature on the construction and transmission of gender ideology between immigrant mothers and their children in two ways. First, using data from the child sample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (N=2,202), it examines adolescent gender ideology as influenced by mothers’ gender beliefs and nativity. Second, it assesses the interaction between maternal gender ideologies and nativity as they influence adolescent ideology. Findings from this study suggest that the nativity of the mother does not affect the adolescent’s ideology, nor does it act as a moderator of maternal influence. The chapter ends with a summary and contextualization of the findings framed in developmental psychology and suggesting that factors external to the household, such as the influence of peers, may work to mitigate the effects of cultural frameworks.

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Acknowledgments

I thank Ian Todd (Dewberry) and Eirini Giannaraki (George Mason University) for their help and insight with contextualizing the findings, and Kevin Nazar, Shannon Davis, and James C. Witte (George Mason University) for their feedback and commentary. Additionally, I am grateful for the audiences at the Center for Social Science Research and Institute for Immigration Research for their insightful and thoughtful contributions to my ongoing research related to adolescents in immigrant households.

Citation

Nooraddini, I. (2021), "Intergenerational Transmission of Gendered Attitudes Among Second-Generation Adolescents: The Role Culture Plays in Modifying the Transmission of Gender Ideology from Immigrant Mothers to Their Children", Demos, V. and Segal, M.T. (Ed.) Gender and Generations: Continuity and Change (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 30), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620210000030003

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