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Sep 22, 2009 · There is evidence that ethnic identity promotes self-esteem, academic achievement, and psychosocial adjustment, especially among minority culture youth. Finally, we will summarize new findings that describe the correlates of adolescent ethnic identity.
- Brett Laursen, Vickie Williams
- 2002
Jul 14, 2014 · The study on which this article is based investigated the salience of nationality in adolescents’ self-concept as a function of the diversity of the school context. According to the distinctiveness postulate, people selectively attend to and encode aspects that are most distinctive.
- Elke Murdock, Franziska S Hirt, Dieter Ferring
- 2014
Salience of ethnicity in the spontaneous self-concept as a function of one’s ethnic distinctiveness in the social environment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 511–520.
By integrating these perspectives, we gain insight into the complex ways in which adolescents negotiate ethnicity into their formation of self-concept. Such knowledge can help us better understand the role that ethnicity plays in the developmental processes.
- Self-Complexity and Self-Concept Clarity
- Self-Awareness
- Overestimating How Closely and Accurately Others View Us
As we have seen, the self-concept is a rich and complex social representation of who we are, encompassing both our internal characteristics and our social roles. In addition to our thoughts about who we are right now, the self-concept also includes thoughts about our past self—our experiences, accomplishments, and failures—and about our future self...
Like any other schema, the self-concept can vary in its current cognitive accessibility. refers to the extent to which we are currently fixing our attention on our own self-concept. When our self-concept becomes highly accessible because of our concerns about being observed and potentially judged by others, we experience the publicly induced self-a...
Although the self-concept is the most important of all our schemas, and although people (particularly those high in self-consciousness) are aware of their self and how they are seen by others, this does not mean that people are always thinking about themselves. In fact, people do not generally focus on their self-concept any more than they focus on...
- Charles Stangor
- 2014
As predicted, self-concept was related to both cultural tightness and collectivism. Specifically, interdependent self-concepts were more likely to occur in tight and collective cultures, whereas independent self-concepts occurred in individualistic and loose cultures.
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Jul 14, 2014 · We therefore predicted that students in the nationally heterogeneous school environment would mention nationality more frequently in their spontaneous self-concept when questioned than would those in the more homogeneous school setting.
