{"id":11293,"date":"2011-01-06T18:36:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11293"},"modified":"2015-02-11T18:12:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:12:26","slug":"ethnic-identity-ego-identity-and-psychological-well-being-among-mixed-ethnic-arab-european-adolescents-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11293","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic identity, ego identity, and psychological well-being among mixed-ethnic Arab-European adolescents in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1348\/026151005X59196\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnic identity, ego identity, and psychological well-being among mixed-ethnic Arab-European adolescents in Israel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)2044-835X\" target=\"_blank\">British Journal of Developmental Psychology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/bjdp.2006.24.issue-4\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 24, Issue 4<\/a> (November 2006)<br \/>\npages 669\u2013679<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1348\/026151005X59196\" target=\"_blank\">10.1348\/026151005X59196<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hisham Motkal Abu-Rayya<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Unit of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>\u00c5bo Akademi University, Turku, Finland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This study explored the relationship between ethnic identity, ego identity, and psychological wellbeing among mixed-ethnic adolescents with European mothers and Arab fathers in Israel. One hundred and twenty-seven mixed-ethnic adolescents (13 to 18 years) were instructed to respond to a modified version of <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1348\/026151005X59196\/full#b28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"references:#b28\">Phinney&#8217;s (1992)<\/a> Multigroup ethnic identity measure (MEIM), to <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1348\/026151005X59196\/full#b6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"references:#b6\">Bennion and Adams&#8217; (1986)<\/a> ego identity measure (EOM-EIS) and to <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1348\/026151005X59196\/full#b36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"references:#b36\">Ryff&#8217;s (1999)<\/a> psychological well-being scale. It was found that Arab and European ethnic identities, composed of ethnic behaviours, affirmation and belonging, and achievement of a sense of oneself as part of an ethnic group, were significantly positively correlated with participants&#8217; psychological well-being. Findings revealed also that the ego identity statuses Achievement and Moratorium were associated with higher levels of psychological well-being, while the statuses Foreclosure and Diffusion were associated with lower levels of well-being. Arab and European ethnic identities and ego identity were found to be formed independently among the participants.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1348\/026151005X59196\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic identity, ego identity, and psychological well-being among mixed-ethnic Arab-European adolescents in Israel British Journal of Developmental Psychology Volume 24, Issue 4 (November 2006) pages 669\u2013679 DOI: 10.1348\/026151005X59196 Hisham Motkal Abu-Rayya The Unit of Psychology \u00c5bo Akademi University, Turku, Finland This study explored the relationship between ethnic identity, ego identity, and psychological wellbeing among mixed-ethnic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8],"tags":[5073,5072,5071,5070,5074],"class_list":["post-11293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-british-journal-of-developmental-psychology","tag-hisham-abu-rayya","tag-hisham-m-abu-rayya","tag-hisham-motkal-abu-rayya","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}