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Multiple Identities and Religious Transmission: A Study Among Moroccan‐Dutch Muslim Adolescents and Their Parents
Author(s) -
Verkuyten Maykel,
Thijs Jochem,
Stevens Gonneke
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01794.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , psychology , immigration , identification (biology) , identity (music) , developmental psychology , religious identity , social identity theory , social psychology , religiosity , social group , sociology , anthropology , botany , physics , archaeology , biology , acoustics , history
This study investigates the relation between religious group identification and ethnic and national identity among Moroccan‐Dutch Muslim adolescents (11–18 years) and their parents ( n = 369). Compared to their parents, adolescents showed higher national identification and lower religious and ethnic group identification. However, for adolescents and their parents, there were similar positive relations between Muslim and ethnic identifications, and both identifications were negatively related to Dutch identification. For early adolescents, parent’s religious group identification was strongly related to their religious identification and ethnic and national identifications. These associations were not significant for middle adolescents. It is concluded that research on children from immigrant Muslim families should not only focus on ethnicity but on religious identity in particular.