The national and supranational identity in Italian and Ukrainian adolescents: A cross-cultural comparison.

The development of national and European identity: A cross-cultural comparison between Italian and Ukrainian children and adolescents.

The development of children’s identification: A cross-cultural comparison between Bulgaria, Italy and Ukraine

The study presented here analyses the development of self-categorisation, national, supranational, local and regional identification of Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Italian children and adolescents growing up in Bulgaria, Ukraine and Italy. The sample consisted of 541 children aged 6, 9, 12 and 15 years. It was found that national, supranational, local and regional identifications differ in the three national groups. It is argued that the cognitive-developmental account of the development of national identification is unable to explain the patterns of findings which were obtained. Social representations theory and Social identity theory, however, are able to explain the different patterns of im…

The development of children's identification with their own national, supranational, local and regional groups: A cross-cultural comparison in Italian and Ukrainian children and adolescents.