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Ghoerai, Aroena (2015)

De relatie tussen nationale identiteit, normbesef en externaliserend probleemgedrag: Kaapverdiaanse adolescenten in Nederland onder de loep

Master thesis | Education and Child Studies (MSc)

This research focuses on the relations between national identity, moral reasoning and externalizing behavior problems for 48 immigrant adolescents from Cape Verde, 31 from former Dutch Antilles/Aruba and 152 from the Netherlands, living in the Netherlands. Data from questionnaires showed that family composition and socioeconomic status were not related to the degree of externalizing behavior. Furthermore, no significant differences were found in externalizing behavior and moral reasoning between the three groups. This could be explained by the fact that the adolescents in the sample belong to the same peer group. Therefore it is possible that these adolescents influence and encourage each other to show similar behavior and thus might often apply the same standards. Dutch adolescents had a stronger sense of national identity than the other two groups, however this was not significantly related to the degree of externalizing behavior. Adolescents from the former Dutch Antilles/Aruba...Show moreThis research focuses on the relations between national identity, moral reasoning and externalizing behavior problems for 48 immigrant adolescents from Cape Verde, 31 from former Dutch Antilles/Aruba and 152 from the Netherlands, living in the Netherlands. Data from questionnaires showed that family composition and socioeconomic status were not related to the degree of externalizing behavior. Furthermore, no significant differences were found in externalizing behavior and moral reasoning between the three groups. This could be explained by the fact that the adolescents in the sample belong to the same peer group. Therefore it is possible that these adolescents influence and encourage each other to show similar behavior and thus might often apply the same standards. Dutch adolescents had a stronger sense of national identity than the other two groups, however this was not significantly related to the degree of externalizing behavior. Adolescents from the former Dutch Antilles/Aruba who experienced a weaker sense of national identity, exhibited more externalizing behavior problems, whereas there was no relation between these constructs for the Cape Verdean adolescents. Even though Cape Verdean and former Dutch Antillean/Aruban adolescents differ in the exhibition of externalizing behavior in police reports, the current study did not confirm these reports. Studying ethnic identity, bicultural upbringing, and gender in combination with the constructs within the current study, might lead to a better understanding of why differences are found in externalizing behavior between the groups outside this research. The Cape Verdean community is of special interest, because there is only minimal research on this community, which makes it difficult to understand the problems they are facing in the Dutch society.Show less

Externaliserend probleemgedrag

Nationale identiteit

Normbesef

Author

Ghoerai, Aroena

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Supervisors

Malda, Maike

ECTS Credits

20

Language

nl