This study compared Israeli adolescents of Eastern (African-Asiatic) and Western (European-American) descent. Results confirmed the hypothesis that more internal locus of control (LOC) orientation and more relativistic moral judgment would be associated with Western patterns of socialization. No within-group relationship between LOC and moral…

The present study assessed the extent to which kindergarten children's performance on the Bender-Gestalt Test is related to sex and sociocultural variables and to children's social behavior. Two distinctly different Israeli populations were included: the Druze and the Jews. Significant correlations between perceptual indicators and social…

Gender-differential socialization within/across the home, school, and informal youth association were examined using self-reports of 220 Israeli adolescents in grades 8-10. Three components of socialization arenas--openness, control, and deviation--were delineated. The deviation of boys was a stronger and more sensitive function of openness and…

Analyzed self-perceived maturation associated with service in the Israeli army according to gender, rank, service trajectory (unit or role), and the socialization environment of the individual (urban or kibbutz). Results for 633 subjects suggest that army service contributes to the maturation of Israeli youth, and maturation is moderately affected…

Sex-determined differences in socialization were investigated in seven families, two of which contained twins, two of which contained triplets and three of which contained quadruplets. Two psychologists observed the families in their homes from the infants fifth month of age until the children were 3 1/2 to 6 years of age. Children's dependency,…

Assessed the relative contribution of gender and gender role orientation to empathy and its development in 119 Israeli 8th and 11th graders. When the contribution of masculinity/femininity was covaried, empathy was found unrelated to gender. Findings are discussed in terms of socialization of emotions and gender role orientation. (SLD)

Examined potential predictors of Israeli adolescents' accuracy in perceiving parental values. Found that accuracy in perceiving parents' overall value system correlated positively with parents' actual and perceived value agreement and perceived parental warmth and responsiveness, but negatively with perceived value conflict, indifferent parenting,…

Intentions to emigrate and attachment to Israel of over 2,300 Israeli high school students were found to be related to a number of indicators of social status and involvement, including ethnicity, religiosity, gender, and SES. Immigrant status had a curvilinear relationship with attachment to Israel. Results support that social integration theory.…

Reports on a study of the link between religiosity, gender, and subjectivity among 37 secondary female students in an all-girls' religious boarding school in Israel. Finds that the girls' experiences shaped a religious subjectivity that was subject to divine law and the male world. (CFR)

Examines how maternal characteristics and work values are related to work values of adolescent children for 93 Israeli eleventh graders and their mothers. Results do not demonstrate that mothers' occupational characteristics affect the level of children's work values. Significant differences in work values are found for sons and daughters. (SLD)