Content and predictors of the ethnic identity of Russian-speaking immigrant adolescents in Finland

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 209-219

  Jasinskaja Lahti, Inga ^a   Liebkind, Karmela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Adolescents; Ethnic identity; Immigration from Russia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RUSSIA; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 0032246074     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9450.00081     Document Type: Article

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