Role-based identity development in Latinx adolescents from immigrant families: The development of language broker role identity

• Main Authors: SIM, Lester, KIM, Su Yeong, VÉLEZ, Melissa M., SHEN, Yishan, ZHANG, Minyu
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Adolescent; Identity development; Role identities; Latinx; Immigrant families; Language brokering; Family, Life Course, and Society; Multicultural Psychology; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3727; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86426-2_8
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Identity research on adolescents from immigrant families focuses primarily on ethnic identities, yet other forms of social identities have been neglected in the literature. Specifically, the adoption of different roles can vary one’s self-concept and manifest in the construction of distinct role-bas...