APORTES A LA COMPRENSIÓN DE LA IDENTIDAD ÉTNICA EN NIÑOS, NIÑAS Y ADOLESCENTES DE GRUPOS ÉTNICOS MINORITARIOS

The present article reviews international literature on ethnic identity among ethnic minority children, presents a summary of the principal empirical data on this area, and discusses three theoretical approaches widely used in the psychosocial analysis of these results, namely, the Social Identity T...

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Author: Smith Castro, Vanessa
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2023
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repository:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/56399
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/sociales/article/view/56399
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Identity
minority group
aculturation
Identidad
grupos minoritarios
aculturación
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Summary:The present article reviews international literature on ethnic identity among ethnic minority children, presents a summary of the principal empirical data on this area, and discusses three theoretical approaches widely used in the psychosocial analysis of these results, namely, the Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979), Berry’s (1984, 1997) bidimensional acculturation model, and ethnic identity formation approaches based on Erikson’s (1973) Ego-Identity Development Theory. The literature shows that the development of ethnic identity is a multidimensional and dynamic process shaped by interindividual, contextual and sociocultural factors.