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Racial-Ethnic Self-Schemas

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    Oyserman, Daphna
    Kemmelmeier, Markus
    Fryberg, Stephanie
    Brosh, Hezi
    Hart-Johnson, Tamera
    Date
    2003
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    Abstract
    Racial-ethnic minorities are at risk of academic disengagement: pulling back effort in school. Our model focuses on implications of content of racial-ethnic self-schemas (RES) for disengagement. We postulate that risk increases when individuals are either "aschematic" (do not have an RES) or "in-group only" RES schematic (when RES incorporates only the in-group without reference to membership in larger society), and that risk decreases when RES contains both in-group and larger society. This latter RES can take the form of a "dual identity," in which one is a member of both in-group and larger society, or a "minority identity," in which one is a member of an in-group that must fight to overcome obstacles to attain larger societal resources. Three studies involving African American, Hispanic, American Indian and Arab-Palestinian Israelis corroborate the positive effect of dual and minority RES versus in-group only RES or RES aschematic status. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
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