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The Third Transitional Identity of Migrant Adolescents. The Case of Hotel House, an Italian Multi-Ethnic Skyscraper-Ghetto
- Source :
- Societies, Vol 11, Iss 2, p 51 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- The adolescent’s identity achievement is a complex task, even more so if they are migrants living in a particular context of ethnic ghettoization. Hotel House is an enormous, isolated condominium situated on the outskirts of Porto Recanati, a small Italian town. It is a unique reality poorly studied from a social psychological perspective. The present paper aims to measure the perceived levels of self-concept clarity, self-determination, ethnic group identification, relationship with parents, depression and life satisfaction in a group of 91 adolescents (11–19 years; 30% females; 1.5 immigrant’s generation) living in this context. The analysis shows low levels of self-concept clarity and self-determination, especially in female adolescents, quite satisfactory relationships with their parents and medium levels of group identification and life satisfaction. The identification with their ethnic subgroups seems to provide a third transitional identity which works as a temporary link between native country values and host country values. The regression analysis shows significant associations: self-determination is negatively associated with depression and positively associated with the perception of life satisfaction; the father’s closeness is a negative predictor for depression and a positive predictor for life satisfaction; mother’s closeness is negatively associated with depression.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20754698
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Societies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.7409b07b9f5454cac40278fa9c344d8
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/soc11020051