Ethnic Identity Development in Inter-Country Adopted Early Adolescent Girls

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dc.contributorBinder, Katherineen_US
dc.contributorShilkret, Roberten_US
dc.contributorTessler, Richarden_US
dc.contributor.advisorWendt, Sallyen_US
dc.contributor.authorMulllin, Elizabethen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-16T13:47:18Z
dc.date.available2011-02-16T13:47:18Z
dc.date.gradyear2006en_US
dc.date.issued2011-02-16
dc.date.submitted2006-06-21 12:19:06en_US
dc.description.abstractThe current study addressed the following questions: (a) How are parent practices related to the development of ethnic identity in early adolescent girls adopted from China; and, (b) Do ethnic identity and national identity explain a significant amount of variance in global self-esteem relative to other dimensions of self-esteem in early adolescent girls adopted from China? The investigator recruited 38 Chinese-born adopted girls, ages 9-13, with White parents who completed surveys assessing parent practices, family demographics, child s ethnic identity, child s national identity, and child s self-esteem. Parents uniformly positive beliefs towards bicultural education were related to ethnic identity. These children had independently high scores in both ethnic identity and national identity. At this point in the developmental process, both ethnic identity and national identity are related to global self-esteem, but do not explain as much unique variance as other age-appropriate domains of global self-esteem (i.e., peer relations and body image).en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipPsychology & Educationen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/723
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rights.restrictedpublic
dc.subjectinter-country adoptionen_US
dc.subjectearly adolescent developmenten_US
dc.titleEthnic Identity Development in Inter-Country Adopted Early Adolescent Girlsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke Collegeen_US

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