When the Family Occupies the Future – Self-Processes and Well-Being of Kyrgyz Children and Young People

Doris Bühler-Niederberger () and Jessica Schwittek ()
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Doris Bühler-Niederberger: University of Wuppertal
Jessica Schwittek: University of Duisburg-Essen

Child Indicators Research, 2022, vol. 15, issue 4, No 5, 1179-1207

Abstract: Abstract The paper focuses on the question of how young people in the post-Soviet country of Kyrgyzstan deal with the structural and cultural demands of a society characterized by strong obligations of intergenerational solidarity and the normative pattern of submission under the authority of elders. Based on three preponderantly qualitative empirical studies on kindergarten children, teenagers and young adults, young people’s commitment to that order is mapped out, defining their reasons for acceptance on the one hand and the limits of their acceptance on the other hand. Concerning the latter, a special focus is laid on processes of the “self” as well as notions of a “generation gap”. We can then deduce what the hierarchical age order means for the well-being of young people.

Keywords: Generational order; Independence and interdependence model of solidarity; Generation gap; Post-soviet society; Childhood and youth; Well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s12187-021-09873-6

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