IPPI Scientific Evenings - Competition and Culture: Chinese mothers' socialization goals and Arab immigrants in Hungary
28th of November, 2023
https://ppk-elte-hu.zoom.us/j/93341927639
Meeting ID: 933 4192 7639
Program:
18:00 – 18:05 Welcome speech
Prof. dr. Győri János, ELTE PPK IPPI
18:05-18:30 How Chinese mothers socialize their children to competition
Prof. Márta Fülöp, DSc, HUN-REN Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre of Natural Sciences
18:30–18:45 Q/A Discussion
5 minutes break
18:50–19:15 Arab immigrants acculturation in Hungary: the role of competitive and cooperative relations
Mariem Jebali, PhD student, ELTE PPK PDI / Prof. Márta Fülöp, DSc, HUN-REN Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre of Natural Sciences
19:15–19:30 Q/A Discussion 19:30–19:35
Closing speech
Prof. dr. János Győri, ELTE PPK IPPI
Prof. Márta Fülöp, DSc How Chinese mothers socialize their children to competition
China has openly transformed into a highly competitive society, both in terms of the school system, business life, and the labor market, and this is changing the worldview, value system, and psychological characteristics of young people (H. Sun, 2006; Wu et al., 2007, Bai et al., 2008). Bian et al (2022) studied Chinese mothers’ parenting goals and found that they care more about their children’s academic competitiveness and personal well-being than their mothers’ generation.
The talk will focus on the parental goals Chinese mothers and fathers in different places of residence in China have and especially what kind of competitive attitude they attempt to socialize for their children being able to withstand the intensely competitive Chinese society. The talk will also focus on the ideas and socialization practices of adaptive coping with winning and losing as part of the competitive emotional and behavioral process. (NKFIH- OTKA-K 135963)
Prof. Márta Fülöp is scientific advisor and head of the Social and Cultural Research Group in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre of Natural Sciences and a professor of social and cultural psychology in the Department of Social and Intercultural Psychology, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church. She is secretary general of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and president of Children’s Identity and Citizenship: European Association.
Mariem Jebali / Márta Fülöp Arab immigrants acculturation in Hungary: the role of competitive and cooperative relations
There were approximately 12 000 immigrants of Arab ethnicity living in Hungary according to the latest Microcensus (2016). The number has been growing since significantly.
According to TÁRKI Social Research Institute in 2015 94% of the Hungarian respondents refused refugees of Arab ethnicity specifically (Vidra, 2018). Given the attitudes towards immigrants in Hungary it is an outstanding issue to understand how these immigrants, specifically immigrants of Arabic ethnicity are able to integrate into the Hungarian society, what kind of acculturation processes are characteristic to them. Although the first generations of Arabs arriving in Hungary took place in the 1970s and 1980s, the research on this ethnic group in different domains is scarce and close to non-existent.
Csepeli and Örkény (2021) studied Arab immigrants attachment to Hungary and found that it surpasses both their solidarity with the diaspora at large and their own ethnic group in Hungary. Besides, Arabs are most trusting toward fellow Arabs of their home country, have more faith in “the Hungarians” than in the Arabs living next door. The talk will focus on the acculturation orientation of Arabs from different nationalities moving to Hungary for different motives and their perception of the role of in-group and out-group competition in their acculturation. Participants were asked to associate to the word Hungary and to their own country and to the words competition and cooperation (AGA Technique, Szalay and Brent, 1967) followed by semi-structures interviews. The talk will highlight different acculturation strategies in relation to these competitive experiences.
Mariem Jebali, a Ph.D. student in Socialisation and Psychology of Social Processes Programme at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, ELTE. Graduated with an Master degree in Clinical and Health psychology from the same faculty. Currently researching the topic of “Acculturation of the Arab immigrants into the Hungarian society: the cooperation and competition strategies”. Currently working as a recruiter for GE Steam Power.