Adolescent Ethnic Identity in Social Context: A Commentary.

Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0372725 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1467-8624 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00093920 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Child Dev Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers
Original Publication: [Chicago, etc.] : Published by the University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development [etc.]

Adolescent Behavior* ; Minority Groups*; Acculturation ; Adolescent ; Child ; Ethnicity ; Humans ; Social Identification

Key findings from the various studies of this special section of Child Development are that ethnic identity is embedded in a positive proximal interpersonal context in adolescence and that the links between ethnic identity and the interpersonal context seem to become stronger from the beginning of early adolescence on. Remarkably, the (longitudinal) studies do not show that ethnic identity is a better predictor of developmental outcomes or that it can be better predicted in minority groups than in majority groups. I use one of the articles to demonstate that a longitudinal prediction model is different from a developmental sequence model. Finally, an extension of the present measures of ethnic identity is proposed. This extension would allow for a thorough investigation of the saliency of ethnic identity and its interplay with other identity domains during adolescent development.
(© 2017 The Author. Child Development © 2017 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.)

Comment on: Child Dev. 2017 May;88(3):743-760. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12788. (PMID: 28318013)

Date Created: 20170317 Date Completed: 20190617 Latest Revision: 20211204

20250114

10.1111/cdev.12785

28301041