Objective
The objectives of the project are:
To research the mental-health, self-esteem, and peer relationships of Jewish
and non-Jewish adolescents in Moscow, using standardized measures.
To study the impact of family relationship on the adolescents' psychological
and social functioning among the Russian groups.
To examine patterns of family communication among four groups of families
with adolescents: immigrants to Israel of the 1970s; immigrants of the
1990s; Jewish families in Moscow; and non-Jewish families in Moscow.
To compare the data obtained from the above four groups.
To develop a model of family intervention to help adolescents in Israel and
in Russia, based on our quantitative and qualitative expected results.
The first phase of the study examines the effect of family functioning on the adolescents' self-esteem, mental-health, and relationship with peers, using standardized scales.Two-hundreds Jewish adolescents and two-hundreds non-Jewish adolescents from local high-schools in Moscow will be selected for this phase. <he second phase of the study includes in-depth interviews of families from each of the four -samples of the study. Forty families will be included in this phase of the study (10 of each of the four -groups of the study: Immigrant to Israel of the 1970s, Immigrants of the 1990s, Jewish in Moscow, and Non-Jewish in Moscow). Thus, quantitative and qualitative data will be gathered in this proposed study.
The results of the study are significant both to the Israeli and the Russian society. Russia is undergoing rapid cultural and social changes that are likely to affect family relationship and parent-adolescent communication. The results of this study will help understand family matters in Russia so that models of family interventions could be developed for the Russian population. Likewise, the results will help us to better understand Israeli adolescents with a Russian origin. Such understanding will assist us in developing and testing models of family intervention for the population of immigrant adolescents in Israel.
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84105 BEER SHEVA
Israel