{"id":27314,"date":"2013-01-06T02:11:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T02:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27314"},"modified":"2013-01-06T18:44:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T18:44:41","slug":"why-do-pacific-people-with-multiple-ethnic-affiliations-have-poorer-subjective-wellbeing-negative-ingroup-affect-mediates-the-identity-tension-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27314","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Pacific People with Multiple Ethnic Affiliations Have Poorer Subjective Wellbeing? Negative Ingroup Affect Mediates the Identity Tension Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11205-012-0220-8\" target=\"_blank\">Why Do Pacific People with Multiple Ethnic Affiliations Have Poorer Subjective Wellbeing? Negative Ingroup Affect Mediates the Identity Tension Effect<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11205\" target=\"_blank\">Social Indicators Research<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online: December 2012<br \/>\n18 pages<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11205-012-0220-8\" target=\"_blank\">10.1007\/s11205-012-0220-8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Manuela<\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Auckland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.auckland.ac.nz\/uoa\/chris-sibley\" target=\"_blank\">Chris G. Sibley<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Lecturer in Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Auckland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We argue that multi-ethnic affiliation as a member of both the Pacific and majority (European) group creates tension in psychological wellbeing for Pacific peoples of mixed ancestry. Study 1 showed that <em>multi-ethnic Pacific\/non-Pacific<\/em> people were lower in Pacific Familial Wellbeing relative to <em>mono-ethnic Pacific<\/em> and <em>multi-ethnic Pacific\/Pacific<\/em> people (<em>n<\/em> = 586). Study 2 replicated this effect in a New Zealand (NZ) national probability sample using a measure of self-esteem (<em>n<\/em> = 276). Study 2 also modelled the mechanism driving the identity tension effect, and showed that group differences in negative affect toward Pacific peoples fully mediated the effect of ethnic mixed or mono-ethnic group affiliation on self-esteem. This currently affects the one-third of Pacific people who identify as Pacific\/non-Pacific in NZ and occurs because multi-ethnic identification promotes the endorsement of negative societal attitudes toward Pacific peoples. Our model indicates that endorsement of such attitudes produces a more negative self-evaluation and generally corrodes subjective wellbeing and family integration. Population projections indicate that this potentially at-risk Pacific\/non-Pacific group may increase dramatically in subsequent generations (upwards of 3.3% of the population by 2026). Implications for the study of Pacific wellbeing, and avenues for applied research targeting this newly-identified emerging social problem are discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007%2Fs11205-012-0220-8\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Do Pacific People with Multiple Ethnic Affiliations Have Poorer Subjective Wellbeing? Negative Ingroup Affect Mediates the Identity Tension Effect Social Indicators Research Published online: December 2012 18 pages DOI: 10.1007\/s11205-012-0220-8 Sam Manuela Department of Psychology University of Auckland Chris G. Sibley, Senior Lecturer in Psychology University of Auckland We argue that multi-ethnic affiliation as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,4405],"tags":[13279,13280,1000,13278,13281],"class_list":["post-27314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-chris-g-sibley","tag-chris-sibley","tag-new-zealand","tag-sam-manuela","tag-social-indicators-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27314","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=27314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}