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Ethnic Identity Development and Urban Haitian Adolescents
Author(s) -
Bachay Judith
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of multicultural counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.545
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2161-1912
pISSN - 0883-8534
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1912.1998.tb00190.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , psychology , identity (music) , intervention (counseling) , developmental psychology , frontier , clinical psychology , sociology , political science , physics , psychiatry , anthropology , acoustics , law
This experimental study describes the effect of a preventive, psychoeducational, counselor intervention on the ethnic identity development of urban Haitian adolescents. Significant differences were found for gender but not between the control and experimental groups. Boys scored significantly lower ( p < .05) than girls on the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure. Recommendations are made regarding school as a frontier for the enhancement of healthy minority adolescent development.