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Tikhonov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. From discrimination to identity integration: the mediating role of ethnic and national identities. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-ym2m-9578

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TitleFrom discrimination to identity integration: the mediating role of ethnic and national identities
NameTikhonov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (author); Hoggard, Lori (chair); Sanchez, Diana T (member); Wilder, David A (member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2022
Other Date2022-01 (degree)
SubjectSocial psychology, Bicultural identity harmony, Discrimination, Ethnic Identity, National identity
Extent88 pages : illustrations
DescriptionRacial and ethnic minority (REM) immigrants most often identify both with their ethnic group of origin (i.e., ethnic identity) and their receiving society (i.e., national identity; Sam & Berry, 2006). Bicultural identity integration (BII) describes the degree to which these two identities exist in harmony (vs. conflict) and are blended (vs. compartmentalized; Huynh et al., 2018). Ethnicity-based discrimination by race/ethnic majority members may lead to stronger ethnic identity and weaker national identity (i.e., rejection-dis/identification; Branscombe et al., 1999; Jasinskaja-Lahti et al., 2009) and less bicultural identity harmony (Huynh et al., 2018) among REM immigrants. Given the documented relations between bicultural identity harmony and ethnic/national identity (Huynh et al., 2018; Tikhonov et al., 2019), I tested whether ethnicity-based discrimination would lead to increased discordance between ethnic and national identity commitment and if this increased discordance would mediate the association between ethnicity-based discrimination and bicultural identity harmony. Two hundred and seventy-four, first and second-generation REM immigrants to the U.S. were either included in or excluded from a game of Cyberball, an online ball tossing game by two gender and age matched “Players” (i.e., bots in actuality) described as White American/Caucasian. Contrary to what I had hypothesized, participants in the exclusion condition did not score higher on a measure of ethnic identity commitment and lower on national identity commitment and bicultural identity harmony relative to those in the inclusion condition. Furthermore, a cultural identity commitment discordance score did not mediate the relation between experimental condition and bicultural identity harmony. However, a significant limitation of this study was a majority of participants indicating that they were aware of playing Cyberball with bots and not actual human beings.
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NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-ym2m-9578
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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