Expectations of Trust
Expectations of Trust
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Issue Date
1984
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Eldor, Ofra
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In this research, the intention was to find out if people who were raised in the collective kibbutz, where separated living arrangements occur, have more expectations from others than people who were raised in a typical nuclear family. In the kibbutz movement, and especially in the kibbutz Artzie, due to the separated living arrangement, the emphasis is on the peer group rather than on the family and the individual. Therefore, the source of love, trust, approval, and security is derived from the group from early infancy. The hypothesis was that what a kibbutz child learns from early infancy manifests itself later in adulthood. Therefore, possible problems may arise when an individual from the kibbutz seeks another type of lifestyle and attributes his/her early childhood experiences to the outside world during the period of adjustment. This research was designed as an exploratory study: seven (7) men from kibbutz backgrounds and six (6) city-raised men, all from Israel, were interviewed. It was not the intention of this research to make final conclusions. Rather, the intention was to explore the subject, collect information from the interviews, and possibly come up with more research questions. It was confirmed from the data collected from the interviews that kibbutz-raised men had more expectations from others and experienced more disappointments from other people since leaving the kibbutz and Israel. Based on the information gathered from the interviews, this researcher came up with an assumption that the separated living arrangement may be the source of certain personality characteristics, such as grandiosity and narcissism, and certain control issues, among the kibbutz-raised adults, which were clearly observed and expressed by the city-raised men.