The purpose of this study was to explore the differences between Jews who intermarry and Jews who marry other Jews by examining family of origin relationships at the time of leaving home. The Parental Relationship Inventory (Lich & Silver-Stutman, 1986) measuring the differentiation process at the time of leaving home, the Parentification Questionnaire (Goglia, Jurovic, Wolkin & Sessions, 1985) focusing on family roles, and a background questionnaire exploring the ethnic and religious identification of the family experience of the subjects were used. Intermarried subjects (n = 103) were compared to homogamously married subjects (n = 113) utilizing both bivariate and multivariate analyses. While results indicated that the intermarried group was more parentified and married substantially later, the differences were most apparent when the groups were compared by sex. T-tests, chi-squares, and step-wise discriminant analyses revealed significant differences between intermarried men and homogamously married men on autonomy, respect for intergenerational boundaries, relatedness, mutuality, self-focus and supply-seeking and also parentification indicating that the former group was less differentiated from their families of origin at the time they left home and played a more parentified role. Differences between the groups on ethnic identification and religious observance in the families of origin were insignificant. The implications of the findings are that family of origin factors are influential in the mate selection process and that for the intermarried men in this study their intermarriages were related to being less differentiated and more parentified in relation to their families of origin. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-03, Section: A, page: 1016. / Major Professor: Eileen M. Earhart. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78196 |
| Contributors | Williams, Nancy Rothenberg., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 165 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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