An Investigation on the Anxiety of Turkish Mothers Living in the USA about Their Children’s Future

Sengul Ilgar^1, and Nihat Topac¹

¹Department of Primary Education,Istanbul University, Hasan Ali Yucel Faculty of Education, Istanbul,Turkey

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Sengul Ilgar and Nihat Topac. An Investigation on the Anxiety of Turkish Mothers Living in the USA about Their Children’s Future. American Journal of Educational Research. 2014; 2(9):745-751. doi: 10.12691/education-2-9-7

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the anxiety of Turkish mothers from different socio-economic levels about their adolescence period children’s future. The investigation is a qualitative study composed of 24 mothers. In the analysis of interview results, descriptive analysis method was used in line with qualitative data analysis. When the anxiety of mothers in different socio-economic level families about their children’s future was investigated, all mothers in higher, middle and lower socio-economic levels had the anxiety that their children would alienate from Turkish culture, feel shy about being Turkish, have a cultural dilemma and find our cultural values nonsense. While the children’s being unwilling to learn Turkish and forgetting the language was the first anxiety that middle class family mothers mentioned, higher socio-economic level mothers stated their anxiety about their children’s getting married to a non-Turkish person.

Keywords:
adolescence period anxiety mothers Mothers In The USA

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