Relationship between familism and ego identity development of Puerto Rican and immigrant Puerto Rican adolescents

dc.contributor.authorReguero, Julia Teresaen
dc.contributor.committeechairFu, Victoriaen
dc.contributor.committeememberBenson, Marken
dc.contributor.committeememberLichtman, Marilyn V.en
dc.contributor.committeememberSawyers, Janet K.en
dc.contributor.committeememberSporakowski, Michael J.en
dc.contributor.departmentFamily and Child Developmenten
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:21:29Zen
dc.date.adate2005-10-19en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:21:29Zen
dc.date.issued1991en
dc.date.rdate2005-10-19en
dc.date.sdate2005-10-19en
dc.description.abstractPuerto Rican adolescent ego identity development was studied within the frameworks of Erikson's psychosocial theory and Heller's conceptualization of familism. Ego identity was measured by the Revised Version of the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status-2, an instrument based on Erikson's theoretical formulations. The Heller's Familism Scale was utilized to measure familism. It was hypothesized that there is a relationship between familism and the four identity statuses: achievement, moratorium, foreclosure, and diffusion. It was also hypothesized that familism, gender, age, parent's education and occupation, and number of years living in the United States mainland affect an individual's identity status. There were two sample groups; one living in Puerto Rico (n= 180), and one living in Florida (n= 107). Correlations and multiple regression analyses were utilized to test the hypotheses of this study. The regression analysis showed that the independent variables, age, parental level of education, familism, and, for the immigrant group, number of years living in the United States mainland help explain the variance in some of the statuses scores. Some of the variance in the achievement scores can be explained by the independent variables for immigrant male and female adolescents. The independent variables helped explain the variance in the moratorium scores of the male adolescents living in Puerto Rico, and both male and female immigrant adolescents. The variance in foreclosure scores could only be explained by the independent variables when the subjects were female immigrant adolescents. Finally, the independent variables helped explain the variance in the diffusion scores for the female subjects, regardless of sample group. An analysis of variance revealed a main effect for gender in achievement scores, and diffusion scores. ANOVA also revealed a Significant difference among the subject groups diffusion scores. ANOVA identified a significant interaction between gender and sample group for the foreclosure status. Furthermore, ANOVA revealed a significant difference between male and female foreclosure scores. Also, ANOVA revealed a significant difference between sample groups. Because the independent variables explain only a small percentage of the variance in the four ego identity status scores, caution should be exercised in arriving at conclusions about the relative importance of the independent variables on ego identity.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.extentx, 211 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-10192005-113303en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10192005-113303/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/39959en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V856_1991.R448.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 24449376en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V856 1991.R448en
dc.subject.lcshPuerto Rican familiesen
dc.subject.lcshSelf-perception in adolescence -- Puerto Ricans -- United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshSelf-perception in adolescence -- Puerto Ricoen
dc.titleRelationship between familism and ego identity development of Puerto Rican and immigrant Puerto Rican adolescentsen
dc.typeDissertationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineFamily and Child Developmenten
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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