Abstract:

Background: Exposure to ethnic- and race-related stress (e.g., racism, racial discrimination, and micro-aggression) can impair parenting and parent-child relations. Objective: This study examines the exposure of Palestinian parents in Israel to two levels of racism, interpersonal racism (IPR) and perceived collective racism (PCR), and the relationship of each to perpetrating child abuse. Further, the study examines the moderating role of coping strategies on these relationships. Participants and setting: The study was conducted among a systematic semi-random sample of 770 Palestinian parents in Israel (500 mothers and 270 fathers) aged 21–66 (M = 38.

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Funding Information: This article is based on a study supported, in part, by the Fay Kaufman Memorial Prize and Yad Ora Foundation for Research in Ethnography and Middle Eastern Geopolitics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Elsevier Ltd