ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the values held by both adolescents and parents concerning family relationships. It examines disagreements, or discrepancies, between adolescents and parents on these values. The chapter investigates demographic factors related to intergenerational value discrepancies between immigrant and national families and explores the relationship of value discrepancies to adolescent adaptation. It suggests that parents' acculturation attitudes also vary. The chapter shows that whether immigrant adolescents' and parents' acculturation attitudes are related to value discrepancies. It also suggests that value discrepancies to be greater when parents and adolescents differ in their attitudes or preferences toward the ethnic and national cultures. The chapter provides the values regarding family relationships held by adolescents and parents in both immigrant families and families from the national societies of settlement. It analysses the differences in values between adolescents and parents and between immigrant and national families, to gain an understanding of the relationship between acculturation processes and these differences.
