TY - JOUR
T1 - Parental Identity Processes Across Cultures
T2 - Commitment, In-Depth Exploration and Reconsideration of Commitment Among Parents from the United States, Israel, Poland, South Africa and Japan
AU - Piotrowski, Konrad
AU - Cohen-Malayev, Maya
AU - Hihara, Shogo
AU - Janowicz, Kamil
AU - Morgan, Elizabeth
AU - Naude, Luzelle
AU - Saiga, Satoko
AU - Schachter, Elli
AU - Sugimura, Kazumi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Parental identity
KW - U-MICS
KW - commitment
KW - cross-cultural
KW - exploration
KW - measurement invariance
KW - processual approach
KW - reconsideration
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U2 - 10.1080/15283488.2023.2209581
DO - 10.1080/15283488.2023.2209581
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AN - SCOPUS:85159350996
SN - 1528-3488
VL - 23
SP - 193
EP - 207
JO - Identity
JF - Identity
IS - 3
ER -