Multiple Social Identities in Relation to Self-Esteem of Adolescents in Post-communist Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Kosovo, and Romania

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72616-8_13" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72616-8_13</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72616-8_13" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-72616-8_13</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Multiple Social Identities in Relation to Self-Esteem of Adolescents in Post-communist Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Kosovo, and Romania

Original language description

This chapter investigates multiple social identities and their relationship to selfesteem of adolescents in Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Kosovo, and Romania. Due to economic and political changes, the young generation of these countries has to negotiate the past communist history and democratic transition in complex processes of establishing and developing a sense of self and the emergence of multiple social identities. In addressing these processes, we study ethnic identity (e.g., the degree of identification with the own culture and society, including feelings of belonging and commitment to that society, Phinney & Devich-Navarro, 1997), familial identity (e.g., identification with the familial group, Lopez, Huynh, & Fuligni, 2011), religious identity (e.g., sense of group membership to a religion or set of religious convictions, Nesbitt & Arweck, 2010), and their relationship to selfesteem of youth. We therefore tackle multiple identities through a strength-based perspective of adolescence to outline identities that promote optimal psychological functioning. In so doing, we focus on identity strengths of young people with the aim of better equipping them for the transition to adulthood. Relatedly, in line with increasingly relevant positive psychology approach, it is crucial to advance knowledge that can be translated into applicable interventions. The premise of this chapter is therefore to provide the reader with a better understanding of the contextual conditions which foster optimal identity assets for youth in a multicounty crosscultural perspective as to advance knowledge on identity resources underlying positive adaptation in youth in Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Kosovo, and Romania.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Changing Values and Identities in the Post-Communist World

ISBN

978-3-319-72615-1

Number of pages of the result

17

Pages from-to

225-241

Number of pages of the book

431

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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