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Ethnic Identity in Emerging Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa and the USA, and Its Associations with Psychological Well-Being.
- Source :
- Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology; May/Jun2016, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p236-252, 17p, 1 Diagram, 6 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Ethnic identity as a social dimension of identity is argued to be developmentally important for psychological well-being. However, the relationships between these constructs are mainly examined in Western contexts, amongst dominant-non-dominant groups. We investigate ethnic identity across the mainstream group of a prototypical Western society (the USA) and several multi-ethnic sub-Saharan African countries (Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia), as well as how it relates to psychological well-being. A total of 1255 university students (61.8% females, M<subscript>age</subscript> = 20.94 years, SD = 2.97) completed a questionnaire with ethnic identity and psychological well-being measures. Results indicated that ethnic identity was most salient in two different South African ethnocultural samples and least salient in a mainstream US sample. These results suggest that groups that are more exposed to ethnic strain in multicultural societies tend to have more salient ethnic identities. Furthermore, the underlying structure in the ethnic identity psychological well-being relationship was similar across groups. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HYPOTHESIS
ANALYSIS of variance
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CHI-squared test
COLLEGE students
COMPARATIVE studies
STATISTICAL correlation
ETHNIC groups
FACTOR analysis
GROUP identity
MENTAL health
MULTIVARIATE analysis
PARENTS
PROBABILITY theory
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH evaluation
RESEARCH funding
SATISFACTION
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
SELF-evaluation
STATISTICS
DATA analysis
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
WELL-being
EDUCATIONAL attainment
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ONE-way analysis of variance
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10529284
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 114853651
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2247