The role of ethnic–racial and national identities on U.S. Latino adolescents’ global identity coherence and adjustment.
The role of ethnic–racial and national identities on U.S. Latino adolescents’ global identity coherence and adjustment.
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族裔——种族和民族身份对美国拉丁裔青少年——全球身份一致性和调整的作用。
DOI：
10.1037/cdp0000535
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Martinez-Fuentes, Stefanie
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作者：
Safa, M. Dalal;Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.;Martinez-Fuentes, Stefanie
目的少数民族青少年的任务是同时发展和平衡他们的族裔-种族和国家认同。本研究通过与全球认同一致性的关联，考察了这两种社会认同与美国拉丁裔青少年心理适应的关系。方法这项横断面研究包括370名自认为拉美裔中晚期青少年(男性=16.14岁；SD=1.12；范围：14-18岁；52.8%女性；96.2%出生在美国；50%至少有一位外国出生的父母)，他们在课堂上完成了书面调查。结果表明，社会认同的各个成分通过与认同一致性的独特关联(即综合和困惑)来解释青少年心理适应的显著差异(即较低的抑郁症状；较高的生活满意度和自尊)。结果在青少年性别中普遍存在，但受到家庭移民身份的限制(即，没有外国出生的父母与至少有一名外国出生的父母)。结论本研究强调了多方面、多成分的社会认同发展的重要性，并举例说明了社会地位因素可能会使青少年走上不同的发展道路。
ObjectivesEthnic–racial minoritized adolescents are tasked with concurrently developing and balancing their ethnic–racial and national identities. The present study investigated the extent to which these two social identities were simultaneously associated with US Latino adolescents’ psychological adjustment via their associations with global identity coherence.MethodThis cross-sectional study included 370 self-identified Latino middle-to-late adolescents (M age= 16.14 years; SD= 1.12; range: 14–18; 52.8% female; 96.2% US-born; 50% had at least one foreign-born parent) who completed paper surveys in class. Structural equation path analyses with bias-corrected bootstrapping were conducted to test a theoretical mediational model of identity and adjustment.ResultsFindings indicated that each social identity component explained significant variance in adolescent psychological adjustment (ie, lower depressive symptoms; higher life satisfaction and self-esteem) via its unique association with identity coherence (ie, synthesis and confusion). Results generalized across adolescent gender but were qualified by family immigrant status (ie, having no foreign-born parent vs. having at least one foreign-born parent). Additionally, there was no support for an alternate model with the order of predictors and mediators reversed.ConclusionsThis study highlights the importance of multifaceted, multicomponent social identity development and exemplifies ways in which social position factors may set adolescents onto different developmental pathways.