Arab Family Communication Patterns and Social Adaptation: The Case of Arab Students in Higher Education in Israel

Abstract

The main idea behind the purpose of this research is to allocate the bindings which relate to the impact of family communication patterns on adolescents’ social adaptation at school in the Arab sector within Israel. Although many generalized studies, as well as findings, have been presented concerning this domain, they have mainly been addressing the generalized version of it, without presenting much focus on the area of Israel’s Arab sector. Therefore, the study was aimed at determining impact of family communication patterns on adolescents' social adaptation at school in the Arab sector in Israel. For this purpose, the study conducted surveys and interviews from parents, students, teachers and school principals. Furthermore, the statistical analysis has been used in following that includes frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, normality of dependent variable, and ordinary least square (OLS) to address the research questions pertaining to empirical investigation. Meanwhile, to analyse the interviews data, the thematic analysis technique was applied to address the research questions pertaining to qualitative aspect of the study. The empirical findings of the study suggests that there is a significant and positive impact of family communication patterns on the social adaptation at school in Arab sector Israel. Meanwhile, similarly findings from the thematic analysis suggests that family communication pattern play an important role in Arab culture that influence the social adaptation in the schools. Meanwhile, the study also provide recommendations and practical implications based on key findings and intervention program.