PARENTAL ATTITUDES - A STUDY OF GERMAN, GREEK, AND 2ND GENERATION GREEK MIGRANT ADOLESCENTS

The adaptation of attitudes toward parents following migration was tes ted in a transnational study of Greek, German, and second-generation i mmigrant Greek adolescents in Germany (N = 342). Three major factors r esulted on the first section of the Attitudes Towards Parents Inventor y and these corresponded to parental involvement, achievement motivati on, and family cohesion. Principal component analysis of the second se ction extracted the two factors obedience and parental conflict. Greek s per se (i.e., migrants and nonmigrants) shared the characteristic of higher levels of achievement motivation, otherwise the second generat ion Greeks were more similar to adolescents from their ''host'' countr y. Several gender differences emerged. The results are discussed withi n the framework of cultural integration vs. pluralism.