Open AccessEmotional and Cognitive Components of Ethnic Identity
Author(s) -
Мышкина Марина Сергеевна
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
socialʹnye âvleniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2305-7327
DOI - 10.47929/2305-7327_2020.01_60-69
Subject(s) - ethnic group , nationality , identity (music) , psychology , developmental psychology , cognition , social psychology , immigration , sociology , geography , psychiatry , physics , archaeology , anthropology , acoustics
The author regards schoolchildren’s awareness and affective evaluation of their belonging to an ethnic community to be among the essential social issues. The paper investigates age-related characteristics of schoolchildren’s ethnic identity. The presented empirical study involved the investigation of emotional and value-oriented components of ethnic identity in schoolchildren of two age groups. The obtained results show that ethnic identity of schoolchildren is mostly complete and constant by the end of adolescence. The awareness of belonging to an ethnic group is of high priority to all adolescent schoolchildren, while the emotional and value-oriented components of this belonging appear of little significance to them. For younger schoolchildren nationality is mostly important, while older schoolchildren attach most significance to the language, emotional and sensory components of ethnic identity.