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ERIC Number: EJ883413
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jun
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1050-8392
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Personality Characteristic Adaptations: Multiracial Adolescents' Patterns of Racial Self-Identification Change
Terry, Rodney L.; Winston, Cynthia E.
Journal of Research on Adolescence, v20 n2 p432-455 Jun 2010
For multiracial adolescents, forming a sense of self and identity can be complicated, even at the level of classifying themselves in terms of racial group membership. Using a Race Self Complexity (Winston et al., 2004) theoretical framework, this study used an open-ended question to examine the racial self-identification fluidity of 66 adolescents during the 7th, 8th, and 11th grades. This sample included 22 Black/White multiracial adolescents, as well as a matched sample of 22 Black and 22 White adolescents. Seventy-three percent of the multiracial adolescents changed their racial self-identification in the form of two time change patterns with a number of consolidating and differentiating racial self-identification variations. There was no change for the monoracial adolescents. These results suggest that within the lives of multiracial adolescents, the process of racial self-identification may be a personality characteristic adaptation to the meaning of race in American society that may change across time, place, and role.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 11; Grade 7; Grade 8
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Language: English
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