Abstract
Differences in emotional‐ and identity‐relatedness with parents were explored across two cultural groups (863 university students from the USA and Turkey, representing individualist and collectivist societies, respectively) in Study 1, and across two socioeconomic status (SES) groups (353 high school students from the upper and lower SES in Turkey) in Study 2. In both studies, within‐cultural differences in emotional‐ and identity‐relatedness with parents were also explored in terms of: (i) self‐directed and other‐directed value orientations; and (ii) self‐types, as suggested by the Balanced Integration‐Differentiation Model. Results indicated cultural groups to be quite similar in emotional‐relatedness, but to differ in relatedness of identities, with Turks reporting more related identities. Similarly, in Turkey, SES seemed to have more impact on identities than on emotional closeness, the lower SES adolescents reporting more relatedness with parents than upper SES adolescents. Thus, relatedness of identities appeared to be more important than emotional relatedness in differentiating between cultural and SES contexts. Results involving different self‐types and value orientations pointed to both cross‐cultural similarities and within‐cultural diversity in the two domains of relatedness. Theoretical implications of cross‐ and within‐culture differences in emotional‐ and identity‐relatedness with parents are discussed.
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