The Structure of Ethnic Identity of Young Adolescents from Diverse Ethnocultural Groups

Journal of Early Adolescence - Tập 19 Số 3 - Trang 301-322 - 1999
Robert E. Roberts1, Jean S. Phinney2, Louise C. Mâsse1, Y. Richard Chen1, Catherine Ramsay Roberts1, Andrea J. Romero3
1The University of Texas-Houston
2California State University, Los Angeles
3Stanford University

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The purpose for this study was to examine the structure and construct validity of a measure of ethnic identity among young adolescents from diverse ethnic groups. Students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades (N = 5,423) from diverse ethnic groups completed the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM), measures of psychological well-being and a measure of salience of ethnicity. Factor analyses of data for the three largest ethnic groups (European American, African American, Mexican American) yielded a two-factor structure that corresponded to two theoretical approaches to ethnic identity, as hypothesized. Similar patterns in magnitude of loadings were observed across groups, indicating that the MEIM could be used as a global composite index of ethnic identity. Ethnic identity was related positively to measures of psychological well-being such as coping ability, mastery, self-esteem and optimism, and negatively to measures of loneliness and depression. MEIM scores also were moderately strong and positive with salience (the importance of a person’s own ethnic background in his or her life), across ethnic groups.

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Journal of Early Adolescence

Tập 19 Số 3

301-322

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