Stepfathers and Fathers ..in..Law Share the Negative Perceptions With Their Spouses in Cross-Cultural Comparisons | ||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Article 10, Volume 6, Issue 20, January 1995, Pages 1-7 | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.1995.141554 | ||
| Author | ||
| A. Ahmed. Ramadan* | ||
| لايوجد | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Recent research has shown that the attitudes toward mother-in-law stepm’other wen negative, while the feelings toward mother and grandmother were dose and positive (Denmark. Adler, & Ahmed, 1990). rand her associ ates (Adler, Davis I Ahrn ed, ]VIrinal, Mukh erj i & Morgan, 1989) found that the father-in-law shared the negative image of spouse r ross-cultur’allv. This was surprising, since no jokes were ever about the father-in-Iii\\’. The •• mother-in-law jokes” were circulating in Western countries and Arab communities, though in India rel ationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-·law were serious business according to Kumar (1989). As It young bride the Hindu girl moved into her husbands household. Traditionally she had no say about choice of her spouse nor his family. Under such conditions the young ughter-in~1aw was more or less subservient to her mother-in-law. It was therefore surprising that attitudes toward the father-in-law were equally negative as attitudes toward the mother-in-law. Furthermore, the same results were found in the data from the United States of America, the Sudan and Kuwait. (Adler) ct al., 1989.) The investigators realized tha t actually the mother-in-law ”vas not only family member with a negative image -- the stepmother was generally perceived as a disliked family member in myth and fairy tales in European and American countries and the stories of” One Thousand and Night” in Mid-Easteru regions (Adler, Denmark, & Ahmed, 1988). results. of the .studyby Denmark, et al., 1990 confirmed the negative ceptiouo{tlw. steiHn~ther.·· ...A~wasthecasc prcyiously, the responses Yieldcdthes::Jlne.schematainKuwait, the Sudan, and the UnitedStatcs of mcl;ka (Adler,IJeI1ll1ark,&Ahined, 1990 | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Cross-cultural comparisons; Stepfathers and Fathers in law; Stepfathers and Fathersin Law Share the Negative Perceptions With Their Spouses in Cross-Cultural Comparisons | ||
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