The role of language, parents, and peers in ethnic identity among adolescents in immigrant families

To construct a model of the influences on ethnic identity among adolescents in immigrant families, WP surveyed adolescents and their parents from 81 A rmenian families, 47 Vietnamese families, and 88 Mexican families. Adolesce nts completed measures of ethnic language proficiency in-group peer social interaction, and ethnic identity Parents completed a measure of support for cultural maintenance. Across all groups, ethnic language proficiency, and in-group peer interaction predicted ethnic identity, and parental cultural maintenance predicted adolescent ethnic language proficiency However becaus e of differences among the groups, a separate model Mins required for each ethnic group, The results suggest both common processes and group differenc es in the factors that influence ethnic identity.