Gender-related needs, challenges, and dangers in the immigration experience in israel of emerging adults from the former soviet union

摘要: In-depth interviews were conducted to examine gender-related patterns of adaptation and maladaptation, the relationship between relationships (parents, friends, romantic partners) for 34 emerging adult immigrants from Former Soviet Union in Israel. Qualitative analysis highlighted needs, difficulties, challenges following immigration experience. Women’s was connected mutually supportive empathic with parents, partners. Maladaption women overly close, nonmutual, enmeshed which led feelings guilt or distant that lacked support intimacy. Adaptation men inner strengths enabled achievement success acculturative tasks, mastery, competence, self-definition combined respect valuing they have their family. In contrast, maladaption among not but a lack needed succeed developmental immigration-related tasks. Despite distinction found less adaptive individuals, young immigrants, alike, more characterized by an ability balance needs self others family relationships. As such, narratives emphasized gender similarities, whereas those differences.