Many young people aging out of foster care struggle to achieve economic self-sufficiency during their transition to adulthood.1 However, these young people are also a heterogeneous population, and becoming economically self-sufficient can be more of challenge for some compared with others.2 Although prior research has looked at racial and ethnic differences in the self-sufficiency of young peop...

The aim of the article is to present self-stereotype people with homosexual orientation. For this purpose, study involved application Twenty Statements Test developed by Manford Kuhn, used describe oneself and perceive oneself. theoretical basis for considerations theory biculturalism in relation acquisition identity a minority group. It shows process acquiring „biculturalism” orientation, whic...

The development of national identity in a highly multicultural nation begins by identifying oneself to particular ethnic group and realizing that multiculturalism is the bridge between both identities. This research aims discover link identity, Indonesia, specifically for Javanese. study utilized three measurement scales: (1) National Identity Scale measure identity; (2) Ethnic sense belongingn...

The article considers the possibility of applying theoretical approaches to study intra-ethnic competition among ethnic parties in national movements. fact that formation based on principle is allowed many states and they become an institutionalized instrument movements deserves special attention. research John Hutchinson's ethno-symbolic concept ethnicity strategies parties, which were reveale...

Limited attention has been given to the role of cultural orientation towards different ethnic groups in multi-ethnic settings without a dominant host culture. We evaluated whether acculturation levels, reflecting other groups, were associated with obesity and related lifestyle behaviors cosmopolitan Asian population. conducted current study based on data from Singapore Multi-Ethnic Cohort (N = ...

This study examines how Greek-Cypriot students aged 12 to 18, an understudied group of students, construct their ethnic identity in a complex setting such as Cyprus and what motivates the students in the selection of ethnic identity labels. The choice to focus on students aged 12-18 was made on the hypothesis that young children, who did not experience the 1974 war in Cyprus, may have a differe...

PURPOSE To examine the performance of various items measuring sexual orientation within 8 school-based adolescent health surveys in the United States and Canada from 1986 through 1999. METHODS Analyses examined nonresponse and unsure responses to sexual orientation items compared with other survey items, demographic differences in responses, tests for response set bias, and congruence of resp...

The authors examined the extent to which Berry's (1997) acculturation orientation categories--assimilation, integration, separation, and marginalization--would emerge from a latent class analysis of continuous acculturation indices. Hispanic college students (N = 436) from Miami participated in the study. The authors used measures of heritage and American cultural orientations to create the lat...

this study extends prior researches by exploring the effect of organizational orientations on export performance. building on the already extensive literature, we developed a model of relationship. a total of 120 usable questionnaires were received from the iranian food industry smes. the results indicated that entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and learning orientation positively ...