Date of Award

1-1-2010

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Organizational Unit

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

First Advisor

Martha E. Wadsworth, Ph.D.

Second Advisor

Anne P. DePrince

Third Advisor

Arthur Jones

Fourth Advisor

Debora Ortega

Fifth Advisor

Stephen R. Shirk

Keywords

Adolescents, Ethnic identity, Ethnic socialization, Family, Mexican-descent, Peers

Abstract

The current cross-sectional study had two goals: present the Peer Ethnic Socialization Measure, (PESM) to assess peer contributions to the process of ethnic socialization (the promotion of pride, cultural knowledge and cultural traditions), and explore how family and peer (in-group and out-group peers) ethnic socialization uniquely contributes to the process of ethnic identity development in Mexican descent adolescents (N=111, M age = 14.5 years, SD = 1.2 years). The PESM is a modified version of the Umaña-Taylor Familial Ethnic Socialization Scale (2001). Results indicated that the PESM is a reliable scale, but that it will benefit from refinement and additional work on its psychometric soundness given lack of evidence to support convergence-validity criteria. Family ethnic socialization was more predictive of total ethnic identity and its sub-indices of ethnic identity exploration and affirmation than peer ethnic socialization in this sample. However, out-group peer ethnic socialization was significantly associated with adolescent's ethnic identity exploration, suggesting peers of different ethnicities play some role in the process of Mexican-descent teens' ethnic identity formation.

Publication Statement

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Rights Holder

Christine M. Reinhard

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

132 p.

Discipline

Clinical psychology

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