The Effects of Multicultural Priming on Children's Identity

The present study examined how a person's social context can influence his or her self-construal. It was hypothesized that individuals whose multicultural identity is formed by parents from distinctly different cultural backgrounds will define themselves differently based upon social context. Specifically, the responses of adolescents who were raised in a context that made one parent more salient than the other has been investigated. Thus, it was expected that in this situation they would demonstrate a self-construal consistent with the cultural orientation of that parent. Participants were upper level students at three international schools on the island of Mallorca. In support of our hypothesis, it was found that for children raised by two parents, one from a collectivist orientation and the other from an individualist orientation, priming them to think about their collectivist parent activated an interdependent self-construal whereas priming them to think about their individualist parent activated an independent self-construal.

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Multicultural Identity ； Priming ； Children's Identity ； Identity Formation ； Individualism ； Collectivism ； Bi-Culturalism

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