NOTE ON PREFERRED USE OF ETHNIC-IDENTITY LABELS BY ABORIGINAL AND NONABORIGINAL CANADIANS

Authors
BOWD A BRADY P
Citation
A. Bowd et P. Brady, NOTE ON PREFERRED USE OF ETHNIC-IDENTITY LABELS BY ABORIGINAL AND NONABORIGINAL CANADIANS, Psychological reports, 82(3), 1998, pp. 1153-1154
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology
Journal title
Psychological reports → ACNP
ISSN journal
00332941
Volume
82
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Part
2
Pages
1153 - 1154
Database
ISI
SICI code
0033-2941(1998)82:3<1153:NOPUOE>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
86 university students (36 native, 50 nonnative) responded to a questi onnaire assessing attitudes toward natives after being assigned random ly to use one of five ethnic identity labels. Native respondents rated natives uniformly more positively regardless of ethnic identity label , and described their own ethnic heritage most often using tribal term s rat her than identity labels employed by nonnatives.