Refugee Parenting in Ethiopia and the Netherlands:Being an Eritrean Parent Outside the Country

Refugee parents often experience post-traumatic stress due to their past experiences, but how does this affect their parenting? Surprisingly, this study found a high level of parental self-efficacy among Eritrean refugee parents in the Netherlands and Ethiopia. However, this raises concerns about the emotion regulation skills of refugee parents, who have a high level of emotional control and may have learnt to value self-reliance, which can impact on the socio-emotional development of their children. This requires further research as it may affect the long-term development of children of refug... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Mouton, Benedicte
Schoenmaeckers, Rick
van Reisen, Mirjam
Dokumenttyp: bookPart
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Verlag/Hrsg.: Langaa RPCIG
Schlagwörter: Refugee parents / Post-traumatic stress disorder / Eritrea / Emotion regulation / Parental self-efficacy / Generational trauma
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27602956
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/40d54a20-e85b-4832-bafe-fac48effe117

Refugee parents often experience post-traumatic stress due to their past experiences, but how does this affect their parenting? Surprisingly, this study found a high level of parental self-efficacy among Eritrean refugee parents in the Netherlands and Ethiopia. However, this raises concerns about the emotion regulation skills of refugee parents, who have a high level of emotional control and may have learnt to value self-reliance, which can impact on the socio-emotional development of their children. This requires further research as it may affect the long-term development of children of refugee parents and contribute to generational trauma.