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Relationships Between Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Attitudes, and Acculturative Stress in Tunisian Individuals in Early and Middle Adolescence

2016

Framed from an integrative approach, the current article examined the associations between ethnic identity exploration (EIE), ethnic identity commitment (EIC), and acculturative stress by investigating the mediating role of ethnic attitudes (i.e., in-group favoritism and out-group derogation) in these relationships. Additionally, the moderating role of age was analyzed. A multiple-group path analysis was performed on data collected from 256 Tunisians in early and 248 in middle adolescence living in Italy, which is an interesting and understudied immigrant group characterized by similarities and differences with the host population. In younger adolescents, EIE and EIC were indirectly and po…

Sociology and Political Sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectImmigrationPopulationSelf-conceptEthnic group050109 social psychologyStructural equation modelingDevelopmental psychologySettore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Psicologia Dell'EducazioneDevelopmental and Educational Psychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesLife-span and Life-course StudieseducationPath analysis (statistics)media_commonethnic identity exploration ethnic identity commitment ethnic attitudes acculturative stress adolescentseducation.field_of_studyDerogation05 social sciencesSettore M-PSI/03 - PsicometriaAcculturationPsychologySocial psychologySocial Sciences (miscellaneous)050104 developmental & child psychology
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Children’s understanding of ethnic belonging and the development of ethnic attitudes

2005

The chapter is a state-of-the-art review of the research focused on children’s understanding of ethnic belonging and the development of ethnic attitudes, in which classic theories as well as recent changes and trends in this field of research are summarised. This review is explained in terms of a progression from the Piagetian stages model of development to the current emphasis on affective processes, socio-cultural context and children's own naiive theories about ethnic belonging and ethnic groups. In this perspective, the chapter deals with some key topics of developmental social psychology, such as the theoretical explanations of children’s ethnic identity and ethnic attitudes, the opera…

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