Emerging Ethnic Identity and Interethnic Group Social Preferences in Middle Childhood: Findings from the Children of Immigrants Development in Context (CIDC) Study

Autor/inn/en	Marks, Amy Kerivan; Szalacha, Laura A.; Lamarre, Meaghan; Boyd, Michelle J.; Coll, Cynthia Garcia
Titel	Emerging Ethnic Identity and Interethnic Group Social Preferences in Middle Childhood: Findings from the Children of Immigrants Development in Context (CIDC) Study
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31 (2007) 5, S.501-513 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025407081462
Schlagwörter	Ethnicity; Children; Immigrants; Intergroup Relations; Age Differences; Hispanic Americans; Asian Americans; Longitudinal Studies; Individual Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnizität; Child; Kind; Kinder; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Intergruppenbeziehungen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Individuelle Entwicklung
Abstract	This study characterizes several aspects of emerging ethnic identity in childhood and its associations with interethnic group social preferences. Understanding these processes is important, as early interethnic group social practices may form a foundation for later interethnic group attitudes and behaviors in adolescence. Children of Cambodian, Dominican, and Portuguese heritage (aged 6-12 years) consistently and accurately identified with labels of their family's nationality of origin across the three study years, and reported strong ethnic pride. In support of existing developmental models of ethnic identity in adolescence, older children demonstrated greater ethnic identity exploration than younger children. Importantly, for second-generation children, a positive sense of ethnic identity was not only associated with ingroup social preferences, but also ethnic outgroup social preferences. Findings are discussed with regard to existing models of ethnic identity development. (Contains 1 figure, 7 tables and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10