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Identity Project: An Intervention Targeting Adolescents' Ethnic-Racial Identity Development

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During adolescence, the question “Who Am I?” is constantly on teens’ minds as they develop their identities and figure out who they are and who they will become. Teens sometimes think about their race, ethnic heritage, or culture when answering this...

Contexts of Adolescent Ethnic-Racial Identity Development: A Mixed Methods Approach

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Most available quantitative research on ethnic-racial identity (ERI) development has used traditional survey methods, limiting a more integrated understanding of how contextual influences in adolescents’ daily lives (e.g., schools, peers, families) inform...

Identity and Positive Youth Development across Cultures

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The Identity and Positive Youth Development across Cultures ( IPYDAC) Project is a mixed-method study designed to examine Colombian and Chilean adolescents’ perceptions of marginalization as a function of race and ethnicity, as well as to explore the...

Identity Project Germany-Potsdam

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Hello! We are the Identity Project 2 (IP2) Team at the University of Potsdam: Linda Juang, Sharleen Pevec-Zimmer, Zhihao Zhong, and Oktay Balci. In collaboration with the research team in Halle, the IP2 aims to develop a training programme to provide...

Adriana Umaña-Taylor

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Dr. Adriana Umaña-Taylor is Professor of Education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual...

Adriana Umaña-Taylor

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Dr. Adriana Umaña-Taylor is Professor of Education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual...

TIDES

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As U.S. adolescents become more ethnically diverse, all youths' social and academic success depends in part on their experiences with diverse peers in school. Among those from ethnic or racial minority backgrounds, having a strong Ethnic-Racial Identity...

Familial Ethnic Socialization Measure (FESM)

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Familial Ethnic Socialization The Familial Ethnic Socialization Measure (FESM) was originally developed as a 9-item version (Umaña-Taylor, 2001) and designed to assess the degree to which participants perceived that their families socialized them with...

Identity Project Global

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Intervening in cultural development: the case of ethnic-racial identity

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The literature on developmental psychopathology has been criticized for its limited integration of culture and, particularly, the lack of research addressing cultural development in relation to psychopathology. In this paper, I present how the study of...

Two Top Cited Articles in 2023

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Two of our journal articles were top cited articles in 2023 We have some great news to share today — two recently published pieces of work, published in Child Development Perspectives, on behalf of Society For Research In Child Development , were ranked...

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