Sikkens Elga, van San Marion, Sieckelinck Stijn, de Winter Micha
1Department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht University, PO Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2Research Institute Risbo, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
J Child Fam Stud. 2018;27(7):2276-2284. doi: 10.1007/s10826-018-1048-x. Epub 2018 Mar 14.
Radicalization of young people might be influenced by the way parents react towards the development of political or religious ideals. However, these reactions have hardly been explored. This study aimed to discover how parents reacted to the development of extreme ideals, and why they responded in the way that they did. To gain knowledge about the influence of parents on adolescents who developed extreme ideals, 82 in-depth interviews were held with adolescents and young adults who held extreme ideals. Interviews were also held with the parents or siblings of each adolescent and young adult. In line with parenting style theory, it was found that parents react in four possible ways: (1) by rejecting, (2) applauding, (3) ignoring, or (4) discussing the (extreme) ideals of their children. Few parents discuss ideals and values with their child, and this paper tries to show why (e.g., powerlessness, disassociation, occupation with other problems, believing it to be a phase that will pass, or that their reaction would not help). Most parents struggle to cope with radicalization and do not know how to react. Support and control are potentially important tools for parents to use to combat the development of extreme ideology.
年轻人的激进化可能会受到父母对政治或宗教理想发展的反应方式的影响。然而，这些反应几乎没有得到探讨。本研究旨在发现父母如何应对极端理想的发展，以及他们为何会以那样的方式做出反应。为了了解父母对形成极端理想的青少年的影响，我们对82名持有极端理想的青少年和年轻人进行了深入访谈。同时，也对每个青少年和年轻人的父母或兄弟姐妹进行了访谈。根据养育方式理论，研究发现父母可能会有四种反应方式：（1）拒绝；（2）赞同；（3）忽视；或（4）讨论孩子的（极端）理想。很少有父母会与孩子讨论理想和价值观，本文试图说明其中的原因（例如，无能为力、脱离关系、忙于其他问题、认为这是一个会过去的阶段，或者认为他们的反应无济于事）。大多数父母难以应对激进化问题，不知道如何做出反应。支持和控制可能是父母用来对抗极端意识形态发展的重要工具。
