Albert Isabelle, Coimbra Stephanie Barros
Faculté des Lettres, des Sciences Humaines, des Arts et des Sciences de l'Education, Campus Belval, Maison des Sciences Humaines, University of Luxembourg, 11, Porte des Sciences, L-4366, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2017 Jun;51(2):205-222. doi: 10.1007/s12124-017-9381-y.
Intergenerational family relations are embedded in family cultures which influence how families regulate their relations over the whole life span with regard to key issues, such as autonomy and relatedness, or support exchange and reciprocity, and which may vary inter- and intraculturally. Migrant families undoubtedly face a special situation as values and expectations from the culture of origin and from the host cultural context might differ. Not much is known yet about how migrant families adapt their family cultures to the host cultural context. The present article will focus on aspects of intergenerational family regulation by taking into account family cultures of migrant compared to non-migrant families in a life span perspective. We will illustrate our theoretical outline by presenting first results from the IRMA-study comparing Luxembourgish and Portuguese immigrant families living in Luxembourg. We focus on issues of family cohesion, enmeshment and normative expectations regarding adult children's support for their ageing parents, by drawing both on quantitative questionnaire as well as qualitative interview data. Implications for the experience of ambivalence and conflicts as well as well-being of family members from both generations will be discussed.
代际家庭关系嵌入于家庭文化之中，这些家庭文化影响着家庭如何在整个生命周期内就关键问题（如自主性与亲密关系、支持交换与互惠）来调节其关系，而且这些文化在不同文化之间以及同一文化内部可能存在差异。移民家庭无疑面临着一种特殊情况，因为来自原籍文化和东道国文化背景的价值观与期望可能不同。关于移民家庭如何使其家庭文化适应东道国文化背景，目前所知甚少。本文将从生命周期的角度，通过考虑移民家庭与非移民家庭的家庭文化，聚焦代际家庭调节的各个方面。我们将通过展示IRMA研究的初步结果来说明我们的理论框架，该研究比较了生活在卢森堡的卢森堡族和葡萄牙族移民家庭。我们通过定量问卷调查以及定性访谈数据，关注家庭凝聚力、相互纠缠以及关于成年子女对年迈父母支持的规范性期望等问题。我们将讨论这对两代家庭成员的矛盾心理、冲突体验以及幸福感的影响。
