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The Impact of the Family Environment on the Ethnic Identity Development of Multiethnic College Students
Author(s) -
Jourdan April
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2006.tb00412.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , identity (music) , psychology , social psychology , sociology , anthropology , physics , acoustics
In this qualitative study of 5 multiethnic college students, the findings indicate that family environment played a significant role in the participants' ability to develop secure ethnic identities. The participants who described their family members as supportive of their multiple ethnic backgrounds also felt confident about their ethnic identity, whereas the participants who described their family members as unsupportive of their multiple ethnic backgrounds maintained that they often felt insecure about their ethnic identity.