Identity Formation in Adolescents from Italian, Mixed, and Migrant Families

Autor/inn/en	Crocetti, Elisabetta; Fermani, Alessandra; Pojaghi, Barbara; Meeus, Wim
Titel	Identity Formation in Adolescents from Italian, Mixed, and Migrant Families
Quelle	In: Child & Youth Care Forum, 40 (2011) 1, S.7-23 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1053-1890
DOI	10.1007/s10566-010-9112-8
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Immigrants; Self Concept; Comparative Analysis; Foreign Countries; Personality; Ethnicity; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Selbstkonzept; Ausland; Personalität; Ethnizität; Italien
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to compare identity formation in adolescents from Italian (n = 261), mixed (n = 100), and migrant families (n =148). Participants completed the Italian version of the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale that assesses identity processes in educational and relational domains. Within a variable-centered approach we found that adolescents from migrant families reported significantly higher levels of reconsideration of commitment than did their peers from Italian and mixed families. Similarly, within a person-centered approach, adolescents from migrant families were more represented in the searching moratorium status than their counterparts from Italian and mixed families. Overall, these results indicated that migrant adolescents face more difficulties to define their personal identity. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10