Journal article
Racial self-categorization in adolescence: multiracial development and social pathways
Child development, Vol.77(5), pp.1298-1308
09/2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00935.x
PMID: 16999799
Abstract
Research on multiracial individuals is often cross-sectional, obscuring the fluid nature of multiracial self-categorization across time. Pathways of racial self-identification are developed from a nationally representative sample of adolescents aged 14-18, measured again 5 years later. A significant proportion of multiracial adolescents change racial self-identification across time. Youth who ever report being multiracial are 4 times as likely to switch self-identification as to report consistent multiracial identities. Across this time, more multiracial adolescents either add a racial category (diversify) or subtract one (consolidate) than maintain consistent multiracial self-categorization. Exploratory multinomial analyses show few differences between these pathways on select psychological and social characteristics. Results lend quantitative support to qualitative studies indicating the fluidity of racial self-categorization.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Racial self-categorization in adolescence: multiracial development and social pathways
- Creators
- Steven Hitlin - University of IowaJ. Scott BrownGlen H Elder Jr
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Child development, Vol.77(5), pp.1298-1308
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00935.x
- PMID
- 16999799
- ISSN
- 0009-3920
- eISSN
- 1467-8624
- Grant note
- T32-HD007376 / NICHD NIH HHS T32 AG00155 / NIA NIH HHS P01-HD31921 / NICHD NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2006
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306246402771
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