Parental Identity Processes Across Cultures: Commitment, In-Depth Exploration and Reconsideration of Commitment Among Parents from the United States, Israel, Poland, South Africa and Japan
Parental Identity Processes Across Cultures: Commitment, In-Depth Exploration and Reconsideration of Commitment Among Parents from the United States, Israel, Poland, South Africa and Japan
StatusPost-Print
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Authors
Piotrowski, Konrad
Cohen-Malayev, Maya
Hihara, Shogo
Janowicz, Kamil
Morgan, Elizabeth
Naude, Luzelle
Saiga, Satoko
Schachter, Elli
Sugimura, Kazumi
Monograph
Monograph (alternative title)
Date
2023-05-13
Publisher
Journal title
Identity
Issue
3
Volume
23
Pages
Pages
193-207
ISSN
1528-3488
1532-706X
1532-706X
ISSN of series
Access date
2024-05-13
Abstract PL
Abstract EN
The goal of the present study was to assess the similarities and differences between parents from different cultures in terms of the intensity of parental identity processes described in the three-dimensional model of identity formation. The cultural measurement invariance of the questionnaire used, the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale-Parental Identity (U-MICS-PI), was also assessed. Participants were 2340 parents (51.4% of mothers) aged from 30 to 59 (M = 43.54; SD = 8.26). The study included parents from North America (USA), the Middle East (Israel), Central Europe (Poland), Africa (South Africa), and Eastern Asia (Japan). Results indicated the full configural, partial metric, and partial scalar invariance of the U-MICS-PI. A comparison of parents from the countries analyzed revealed that the parents from the United States and South Africa were characterized by a more firm commitment and lower level of reconsideration of commitment than those from Poland and Japan.
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Keywords PL
Keywords EN
Parental identity
processual approach
U-MICS
cross-cultural
measurement invariance
commitment
reconsideration
exploration
processual approach
U-MICS
cross-cultural
measurement invariance
commitment
reconsideration
exploration