South African-ness among adolescents: The emergence of a collective identity within the birth to twenty cohort study

Journal of Early Adolescence

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-69

  Norris, Shane A ^a   Roeser, Robert W ^b   Richter, Linda M ^c   Lewin, Nina ^a   Ginsburg, Carren ^a   Fleetwood, Stella A ^a   Taole, Elizabeth ^a   Van Der Wolf, Kees ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Developing country; Identity; Nationalism; South Africa postapartheid

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849004628     PISSN: 02724316     EISSN: 15525449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272431607308674     Document Type: Article

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