Developing an integrated self: Academic and ethnic identities among ethnically diverse college students

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1590-1604

  Syed, Moin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic major; Ethnicity; Identity; Longitudinal; Mixed methods

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; AWARENESS; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

ACCULTURATION; ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN AMERICANS; AWARENESS; CAREER CHOICE; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PREJUDICE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649239169     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020738     Document Type: Article

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