Ethnic Identity and Personal Identity.

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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ACCOMODATION STRATEGY IN BUYING AND SELLING CONVERSATIONS AT GANG BARU TRADITIONAL MARKET CHINATOWN SEMARANG

HUMANIKA ◽

10.14710/humanika.v26i2.24791 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 81

Author(s):

Catur Kepirianto ◽

Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo ◽

Suhandano Suhandano

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

The Other ◽

Interpersonal Interaction ◽

Traditional Market ◽

Research Problems ◽

Convergence And Divergence ◽

Descriptive Qualitative

Language is a means of communication to convey idea, mind, and feeling to the other. The research problems are the accommodation in buying and selling conversation between buyers and sellers in Gang Baru traditional market Chinatown Semarang and the accommodation direction. This research applies descriptive qualitative method. To collect data, it applies observation, tapping, and recording. Then the data are analyzed descriptively based on the theory of accommodation. The findings show that there is an accomodation in the conversation between buyers and sellers in traditional market Chinatown Semarang. The direction of accommodation are both convergence and divergence. In the convergence, the speakers adapt positively, otherwise in the divergence, the speakers adapt negatively. The interpersonal interaction provides the speech in a conversation. Each talk or speech has its own function and becomes the component to arrange the comprehensive relation in a conversation. There are functions on convergence and divergence accommodation. The convergence accommodation has functions to maintain the symmetric speech, to reactualize the solidarity, to keep cooperative speech, to reduce interpersonal difference, to consider the other view, and to provide adaptation. While the divergence accommodation has functions to bargain, to retain the argument, to keep personal speech, to maintain the identity, to keep personal identity, to maintain ethnic identity, to retain the distance, to keep asymmetric speech, and to maintain idiosyncratic speech. It is implied that the speech accommodation in Gang Baru traditional market Chinatown Semarang represents such markers as solidarity, cooperative, symmetric, asymmetric, tolerant, identity, and ethnic markers.

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The Place of Ethnic Identity in the Development of Personal Identity: A Challenge for the Jewish Family

Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195128208.003.0001 ◽

1999 ◽

pp. 3-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Peter Y. Medding

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Jewish Family

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Submerged Layers of Slovenian Identity in Krissy Kneen’s Writing

Acta Neophilologica ◽

10.4312/an.53.1-2.21-31 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 53 (1-2) ◽

pp. 21-31

Author(s):

Igor Maver

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Identity Formation ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Gut Microbiome ◽

The Other ◽

Literary Production ◽

Maternal Grandmother ◽

Non Fiction ◽

To Come ◽

First Time

The article for the first time ever explores the recent non-fiction and poetry by the contemporary Australian writer Krissy Kneen, who has Slovenian roots through her maternal grandmother. Kneen’s writing, a literary tribute to her late grandmother Dragitca (Dragica Marušič), shows a desire to come to terms with her partly ‘Slovenian’ gut microbiome and DNA, as she herself claims. They, in her view, along with the other elements in the process of identity formation, interestingly importantly help to constitute an ethnic identity and, for that matter, any personal identity. This makes her writing very original within the extant diasporic literary production.

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The Code of Discursive or Ideological Truth

Real to Reel ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9780993071768.003.0009 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 183-216

Author(s):

Martin Sohn-Rethel

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Dominant Role ◽

Social Reality ◽

The Other ◽

Power Imbalance ◽

Ethnic Inequality ◽

Spike Lee ◽

The Right ◽

Do The Right Thing

This chapter studies the realism code of discursive or ideological truth, which marks out films where questions of personal identity link to messages and values about power or lack of power in society. It is the battle of ideas in constructing individual and social reality that assumes a dominant role here. Realism under this code can assume whatever guise a film maker chooses in order to highlight the interplay and struggle of contesting ideas. A prime example of this can be found in Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989). Do the Right Thing is a film of ideas which refuses to tell its audience what to think. And this is in large part why it is such an effective vehicle of ideological realism. The other reason is that it does not pull its punches; its ideas penetrate right through to the economic, cultural, and political roots of ethnic inequality and disharmony: to the acute power imbalance triggered by ethnic identity. The chapter also looks at Michael Haneke's Hidden (2005) and The White Ribbon (2009).

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BAHASA DAN IDENTITAS BUDAYA

Sabda Jurnal Kajian Kebudayaan ◽

10.14710/sabda.v1i1.13266 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 44 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Budi Santoso

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

National Identity ◽

Social Class ◽

Ethnic Group ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Social Group ◽

National Language ◽

Arbitrary System ◽

Group Language ◽

The Social

Language is an arbitrary system of sound used by members of a social group to cooperate, communicate, and identify one self. The paper discusses the use of language to identify personal identity, social class, ethnicity, and nationality. Language can determine the identity of an individual and a group. Language is also used to identify or to show the personal identity of a person. Furthermore, language shows the social class of a person. A person who comes from the low level class has a different language style from those of the higher level class. As ethnic identity, language can be used to denote ethnicity or the membership of a person or group in a certain ethnic group. Language can also become the national identity as well. Thus, every country has its own national language

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Personal and Ethnic Identity in Students: a Cross-Cultural Comparison

Bulletin of Kemerovo State University ◽

10.21603/2078-8975-2019-21-4-962-973 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 962-973

Author(s):

T. G. Bokhan ◽

M. V. Shabalovskaya ◽

J. V. Borodich ◽

O. V. Terekhina ◽

A. L. Ulyanich

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Chinese Students ◽

Test Group ◽

Educational Environment ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cultural Comparison ◽

Social Self ◽

Cross Cultural Comparison ◽

The Social

The research featured a cross-cultural comparison of personal and ethnic identity in university students in the conditions of multicultural educational environment. The study involved 141 students: 48 Russians, 45 students from various European countries, and 48 Chinese students. The psychodiagnostic research methods included the questionnaire "Who Am I?" by M. Kuhn and T. McPartland as modified by T. V. Rumyantseva and the questionnaire "Types of ethnic identity" by G. U. Soldatova, S. V. Ryzhova. The research revealed common and specific features of personal and ethnic identity of each group. The importance of reflection and identification of one’s own educational and professional role position were present in the structure of personal identity of every group. As for the structure of ethnic identity, all groups demonstrated an increased level of positive ethnic identity and an average level of ethnic indifference. In the content of personal identity of Russian students, the Social Self (profession, family), the Perspective Self, and the Reflective Self were more pronounced in contrast with other groups. The European students showed a greater manifestation of ethnic nihilism. The Chinese students demonstrated a greater hyperidentity. In each test group, the authors established two types that differed in the specifics of the relationship between personal and ethnic identity. The results can improve the psychological support of students in the process of their self-identification in the conditions of multicultural educational environment.

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Culture, Brain Transplants and Implicit Theories of Identity

Journal of Cognition and Culture ◽

10.1163/156853706778554968 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 6 (3-4) ◽

pp. 453-462 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ramaswami Mahalingam ◽

Joel Rodriguez

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Social Identity ◽

Social Status ◽

Ethnic Groups ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Group Membership ◽

Implicit Theories ◽

The Social ◽

Brain Transplant

AbstractUsing a brain transplant paradigm (BT), we examined the role of culture and status (privileged group membership) on beliefs about social and personal identity among Indians (Brahmins and Dalits, N = 202) and American participants (N = 114). Participants were presented a vignette about a hypothetical BT between members of two different ethnic groups and asked the following two questions: (a) whether a BT would change how the recipient would act; (b) whether the BT would change the social identity of the recipient. Americans believed that the BT recipient would act as the ethnicity of the donor. By contrast, Brahmin participants believed that a Brahmin recipient of a Dalit (formerly treated as "untouchables") brain would act like a Dalit but a Dalit who received a BT from a Brahmin would not act like a Brahmin. Both Americans and Indians believed that the social identity (the caste, race or ethnic identity) of a person would not be changed by a brain transplant. The role of culture and social status in affecting various implicit theories of identities are discussed.

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