How the future orientation of traditional Israeli Palestinian girls links beliefs about women's roles and academic achievement

Rachel Seginer, Sami Mahajna

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    Abstract

    A model in which future orientation links perceived fathers' and girls' beliefs about traditional women's roles and academic achievement was tested on data collected from traditional Israeli Palestinian girls (N = 295) attending a Moslem all-girl senior high school. LISREL analyses estimated two empirical models pertaining to educational and family future orientation. The estimated models showed that fathers' perceived beliefs were directly linked to academic achievement and future orientation partially mediated the relationships between girls' beliefs about women's roles and academic achievement. Girls' beliefs were negatively linked to the educational future orientation and positively linked to the family future orientation, and the educational model explained a larger percent of the variance of academic achievement than did the family model.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)122-135
    Number of pages14
    JournalPsychology of Women Quarterly
    Volume28
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jun 2004

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Gender Studies
    • Developmental and Educational Psychology
    • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
    • Psychology (all)

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