The Intergenerational Effect of Maternal Multicultural Experience on Children’s Tolerance: An Example From Palestinians and Jews in Israel

Carmit T. Tadmor; Rony Berger; Alaina Brenick; Hisham Abu-Raiya; Joy Benatov

doi:10.1177/0022022117721973

The Intergenerational Effect of Maternal Multicultural Experience on Children’s Tolerance: An Example From Palestinians and Jews in Israel

Carmit T. Tadmor, Rony Berger, Alaina Brenick, Hisham Abu-Raiya, Joy Benatov

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Abstract

Although recent research has demonstrated the benefits of multicultural experience for reducing personal levels of intergroup bias, the potential for an intergenerational effect has yet to be explored. Using samples of Jewish-Israeli (Study 1a) and Palestinian-Israeli (Study 1b) mother–child dyads, we found that maternal multicultural experience was indirectly related to greater social tolerance among children via lower levels of maternal need for cognitive closure which, in turn, triggered higher levels of maternal social tolerance. These results show that when it comes to multicultural experience, its impact can extend beyond the self to also affect the next generation. Implications for developmental theories of prejudice acquisition and prejudice interventions are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1342-1348
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Volume	48
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022117721973
State	Published - 1 Oct 2017

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was partially supported by the Henry Crown Institute of Business Research in Israel.

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Keywords

children
intergenerational transmission
intergroup tolerance
multicultural experiences
prejudice

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Social Psychology
Cultural Studies
Anthropology

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