Intergenerational Conflict

In Rasmi and Daly’s article, “Intergenerational Conflicts in Arab Families” (2015), they utilize a mixed-methods approach to identify and investigate intergenerational issues that are salient to Arab adolescents and emerging adults. They develop and validate a scale that captures the identified issues across various studies. Both of them had teach in Middle East University for quite some time. Dr. Sarah Rasmi had published a total of 29 studies on social conflicts and the psychology, and currently the member the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and the Society for Research in Child Development. Compare to Dr. Rasmi, Dr. Timothy M. Daly appeared less professional in this filed, but his previous published studies on Canadian

They have subdivided their article into various sections, each section presenting a specific idea regarding the research topic. For instance, they start by describing the significance of their study by referring to the work by Abi-Hashem (2008) and Dwairy, Achoui, Abouserie & Farah (2006) that acknowledges that the “existing studies on European-American families do not apply to Arab families since the structure and socialization goals of the two groups differ significantly” (p. 2). This finding works in their favor because it captures the attention of the readers, who will be interested in finding how the two groups differ and why the existing research on European-American families is not a suitable way to be used in analyzing Arab families. Therefore, they will realize that the Arabic and European-American families have differing characteristics and; hence, the conflicts arising within these families are not similar. Furthermore, they have used the statistical findings from their survey to identify and explore the various conflicts among the Arab adolescents. They have done this by conducting a variety of studies, which they term as “Study 1: Focus Groups”, “Study 2:

For instance, an interview with a 17-year-old Egyptian female, she claims that “if you are a business student people look at you like it’s not that you chose to study business, it’s that you could not get grades high enough to take you to other schools ” (p. 5). This finding works in their favor since it will capture the attention of the reader, who will be more interested in determining the perceptions of Arabic families regarding the education of their children and why they believe engineering and medicine are successful majors over other