Original articleAcculturation and Well-Being among Arab-European Mixed-Ethnic Adolescents in Israel
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Sample
A total of 127 European-Arab adolescents living in Israel (64 males and 63 females) participated in this study. The sample had a mean age of 15.63 years (SD = 1.20), with the youngest participants being 13 and the oldest 18 years old. About 93% of the participants were born in Israel and the remainder in their mothers’ country; all, however, had lived in Israel from early childhood. All fathers of the adolescents were from Israel and all mothers from Western or Eastern European countries. In
Differences in Ethnic Identity and Measures of Well-Being by Demographic Variables
Preliminary regression analysis revealed nonsignificant relationships between age and Arab or European ethnic identification, and age and each of the measures of well-being. Based on the Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA), there were no significant mean differences for Arab identity, European identity, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and positive relations with others across mothers’ origin (Western or Eastern European), participants’ gender, or socioeconomic class, or any interaction
Discussion
In dealing with the first research question, this study found evidence that Arab ethnic identification and European ethnic identification were uncorrelated among Arab-European adolescents in Israel. The absence of a correlation between the two heritages confirmed the first hypothesis, emphasizing that mixed-ethnic adolescents’ identification with one heritage is independent of their identification with the other. This finding is consistent with previous research on minority mono-ethnic
Acknowledgments
My thanks are expressed to the Gates Cambridge University Trust, the Overseas Research Student Award Scheme, the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, and Wolfson College, who made funds available for work on this study.
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