{"id":1327,"date":"2010-01-18T00:06:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T00:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2014-01-27T21:18:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T21:18:54","slug":"multiracial-self-identification-and-adolescent-outcomes-a-social-psychological-approach-to-the-marginal-man-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial Self-Identification and Adolescent Outcomes: A Social Psychological Approach to the Marginal Man Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/sof.0.0243\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Self-Identification and Adolescent Outcomes: A Social Psychological Approach to the Marginal Man Theory<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/socialforces.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Forces<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/social_forces\/toc\/sof.88.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 88, Number 1<\/a>\u00a0(September 2009)<br \/>\nISSN: 1534-7605 Print ISSN: 0037-7732<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/sof.0.0243\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/sof.0.0243<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.uconn.edu\/faculty\/cheng.html\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Cheng<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouth.edu\/sociology\/people\/kathryn-j-lively\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kathryn J. Lively<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor, Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Dartmouth College<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recent public health research has consistently reported that self-identified multiracial adolescents tend to display more problem behaviors and psychological difficulties than monoracial adolescents. Relying on insights from qualitative analyses using small or clinical samples to interpret these empirical patterns, these studies implicitly assume a pejorative stance toward adolescents\u2019 multiracial self-identification. Building on the social psychological arguments underlying\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_E._Park\" target=\"_blank\">[Robert] Park<\/a>\u2019s and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Everett_Stonequist\" target=\"_blank\">[Everett V.] Stonequist<\/a>\u2019s seminal discussions of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=462\" target=\"_blank\">marginal man<\/a>,\u201d we derive hypotheses indicating that self-identified multiracial adolescents may show more psychological difficulties, but are also likely to have more active social interaction and participation than monoracial groups. We also incorporate later elaborations of the marginal man theory to develop alternative hypotheses regarding multiracial youth\u2019s school and behavioral outcomes. Based on a nationally representative sample of racially self-identified youth, the results suggest that patterns of multiracial-monoracial differences are generally consistent with the hypotheses derived closely from the marginal man theory or its subsequent elaborations. We examine the heterogeneities within these general patterns across different multiracial categories and discuss the implications of these findings.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0the entire article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouth.edu\/sociology\/sites\/dartmouth.edu.sociology\/files\/multiracial_self_identification.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiracial Self-Identification and Adolescent Outcomes: A Social Psychological Approach to the Marginal Man Theory Social Forces Volume 88, Number 1\u00a0(September 2009) ISSN: 1534-7605 Print ISSN: 0037-7732 DOI: 10.1353\/sof.0.0243 Simon Cheng,\u00a0Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Kathryn J. Lively, Associate Professor, Sociology Dartmouth College Recent public health research has consistently reported that self-identified multiracial adolescents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394],"tags":[1827,430,16857,58,824,1828,233,429],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-everett-stonequist","tag-kathryn-j-lively","tag-kathryn-lively","tag-marginal-man","tag-robert-e-park","tag-robert-park","tag-simon-cheng","tag-social-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","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=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}