Integrating Identities: The Relationships of Racial, Gender, and Ego Identities Among White College Students

Miville, Marie L.; Darlington, Pat; Whitlock, Brian; Mulligan, Timothy P.

doi:10.1353/csd.2005.0020

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“…Supporting the principle that identity is an integrative construct (Roberts & Donahue, 1994;Reid & Deaux, 1996), individuals with stronger or more developed personal identities may also have more strongly developed ethnic identities. Of particular note, this pattern emerged for both White (Miville et al, 2005) and non-White (Miville et al, 2000) Americans, supporting our contention that cultural concerns are becoming important for ethnic majority as well as minority individuals.…”

Section: How Should Cultural Identity and Personal Identity Be Related?supporting

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“…Some groundwork has already been established for generating hypotheses in this line of research. Identity status (a dimension of personal identity) and ethnic identity (a dimension of cultural identity) have been studied together in a few instances (Branch, Tayal, & Triplett, 2000; Miville, Darlington, Whitlock, & Mulligan, 2005; Miville, Koonce, Darlington, & Whitlock, 2000; St. Louis & Liem, 2005).…”

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Broadening the Study of the Self: Integrating the Study of Personal Identity and Cultural Identity

Schwartz

Zamboanga

Weisskirch

2008

Social & Personality Psych

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This article reviews what is known and what remains to be studied, regarding the association between personal identity and cultural identity. Although these two conceptions of identity have inspired separate literatures and have developed independently of one another, globalization and mass immigration have increased the need to study these two conceptions of identity together. The article puts forth recommendations for integrating the literatures on personal identity and cultural identity. These recommendations include using multidimensional constructs to represent both personal identity and cultural identity, refining the measurement of personal identity and of cultural identity, and of studying these conceptions of identity across various ethnic, cultural, and national groups.

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Section: How Should Cultural Identity and Personal Identity Be Related?supporting

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Broadening the Study of the Self: Integrating the Study of Personal Identity and Cultural Identity

Schwartz

Zamboanga

Weisskirch

2008

Social & Personality Psych

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“…Although several studies have found significant and positive associations between ethnic and personal identity among adolescents (e.g., Branch, Tayal, & Triplett, 2000; Miville, Darlington, Whitlock, & Mulligan, 2005), most have been cross-sectional. Moreover, only a handful of these studies have examined the relationship of personal and cultural identity with psychosocial functioning (e.g., Schwartz, Zamboanga, Weisskirch, & Wang, 2010; Usborne & Taylor, 2010).…”

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Personal and cultural identity development in recently immigrated Hispanic adolescents: Links with psychosocial functioning.

Meca

Sabet

Farrelly

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Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Objectives This study examined directionality between personal (i.e., coherence and confusion) and cultural identity (i.e., ethnic and US) as well as their additive effects on psychosocial functioning in a sample of recently immigrated Hispanic adolescents. Methods The sample consisted of 302 recent (<5 years) immigrant Hispanic adolescents (53% boys; Mage = 14.51 years at baseline; SD = .88 years) from Miami and Los Angeles who participated in a longitudinal study. Results Results indicated a bidirectional relationship between personal identity coherence and both ethnic and US identity. Ethnic and US Affirmation/Commitment (A/C) positively and indirectly predicted optimism and negatively predicted rule breaking and aggression through coherence. However, confusion predicted lower self-esteem and optimism and higher depressive symptoms, rule breaking, unprotected sex, and cigarette use. Results further indicated significant site differences. In Los Angeles (but not Miami), ethnic A/C also negatively predicted confusion. Conclusion Given the direct effects of coherence and confusion on nearly every outcome, it may be beneficial for interventions to target personal identity. However, in contexts such as Los Angeles, which has at least some ambivalence towards recently immigrated Hispanic adolescents, it may be more beneficial for interventions to also target cultural identity to reduce confusion and thus promote positive development.

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“…As mentioned above, personal and ethnic identity have inspired separate literatures in relation to psychosocial functioning. Only a handful of studies (Branch, Tayal, & Triplett, 2000;Miville, Darlington, Whitlock, & Mulligan, 2005;Miville, Koonce, Darlington, & Whitlock, 2000;St. Louis & Liem, 2005) have included both personal and ethnic identity, and no single study has examined the relationships of both personal and ethnic identity to psychosocial functioning.…”

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The relationships of personal and ethnic identity exploration to indices of adaptive and maladaptive psychosocial functioning

Schwartz

Zamboanga

Weisskirch

et al. 2009

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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Identity exploration has often been associated with maladaptive aspects of psychosocial functioning such as anxiety and depression. It is not known, however, whether maladaptive psychosocial functioning is related to both personal and ethnic identity exploration. In the present study, we examined the relationships of personal and ethnic identity exploration to adaptive (self-esteem, purpose in life, internal locus of control, and ego strength) and maladaptive (depression, anxiety, impulsivity, and tolerance for deviance) psychosocial functioning, as well the extent to which these relationships were mediated by identity confusion. A multi-ethnic sample of 905 White, Black, and Hispanic university students completed measures of personal and ethnic identity exploration, as well as of adaptive and maladaptive psychosocial functioning. Current personal identity exploration was negatively associated with adaptive psychosocial functioning and was positively associated with anxiety, depression, and impulsivity. An opposite pattern of relationships emerged for past personal identity exploration. All these relationships were mediated by identity confusion — positively for current exploration and negatively for past exploration. Ethnic identity exploration was not directly associated with psychosocial functioning and evidenced only a weak association through identity confusion. These findings were consistent across gender and across the three ethnic groups studied. Implications for identity theory, research, and intervention are discussed.

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Integrating Identities: The Relationships of Racial, Gender, and Ego Identities Among White College Students

Cited by 13 publications

References 31 publications

Broadening the Study of the Self: Integrating the Study of Personal Identity and Cultural Identity

Broadening the Study of the Self: Integrating the Study of Personal Identity and Cultural Identity

Personal and cultural identity development in recently immigrated Hispanic adolescents: Links with psychosocial functioning.

The relationships of personal and ethnic identity exploration to indices of adaptive and maladaptive psychosocial functioning

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