Change in Ethnic Identity Across the High School Years Among Adolescents with Latin American,Asian, and European Backgrounds |
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| Authors: | Lisa Kiang Melissa R Witkow Oscar A Baldelomar Andrew J Fuligni |
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| Institution: | (1) Wake Forest University, P.O. Box 7778, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA;(2) Willamette University, Salem, OR, USA;(3) University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Changes in adolescents’ ethnic identity (e.g., exploration, belonging) were examined over the 4 years of high school. Results
from 541 adolescents (51% female) with Latin American, Asian, and European backgrounds suggest that, as a group, adolescents
do not report developmental changes in their ethnic exploration and belonging over time. Yet, within-person analyses of change
reveal that individual adolescents exhibited substantial fluctuation in ethnic identity across the years, and this fluctuation
was associated with concurrent changes in family cohesion, proportion of same-ethnic peers, and ethnic centrality. The discussion
focuses on the value of examining intraindividual change over at least several years in order to more fully understand processes
of ethnic identity development during adolescence. |
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