2013/01/22 by Melinda Gonzales‐Backen, Melinda A. Gonzales‐Backen
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Anthropology #Conceptual framework #Developmental psychology #Empirical research #Epistemology #Ethnic group #Identity (music) #Identity formation #Migration, Health and Trauma #Psychology #Racial and Ethnic Identity Research #Self-concept #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology #Social science #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00749.x
crossref issued 2013/01/22 · crossref published 2013/01/22 · crossref published-online 2013/01/22 · openalex publication_date 2013/01/22 · crossref created 2013/01/22 · crossref published-print 2013/02/01 · crossref deposited 2023/11/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05 · crossref indexed 2026/08/05
A body of literature has increased our understanding of ethnic identity formation among ethnic minorities, but there remains a dearth of research focused on the ethnic identity formation of biethnic adolescents. Biethnic adolescents are likely to have unique experiences related to ethnicity that significantly alter the course of their ethnic identity formation. As such, a conceptual framework of biethnic identity is needed to guide future empirical work on biethnic identity and, ultimately, increase the field's understanding of this critical developmental process among biethnic adolescents. This article provides a review of theoretical and empirical work on ethnic identity among monoethnic adolescents, and, guided by the cultural ecological framework, an ecological framework of biethnic identity development is proposed.