Social identity and Self-esteem of Children from China and Scotland

ISBN-13: 9783659719868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 340 str.

Dai Qian

Opis

Identity is a interesting and important topic to discuss in social psychology. Developmental understanding of identity can be different from culture, gender, and age. This book taking a cross cultural approach to tell you what is identity and self-esteem of children living in Mainland China, Hong kong, Chinese immigrant children living in Scotland and White Scottish children. For those who are living in both cultures, such as Chinese immigrant children living in Scotland, embracing contrasted ethnic and national identity, what do they think of who they are, and how do they perceive their identity, as well as negotiate intergroup attitudes can be challenging. This book will tell you what is the attitudes of this group of children toward their ethnic identity and national identity. Highlighted points in this book is that they applied vignettes task an an innovative tool to investigate childrens identity.

O autorze

I am a lecturer and counselor at Sichuan University, China, holding MSc Education and having been awarded PhD at the University of Edinburgh since 2013. My main research interests focused on children's developmental understanding of social identity, positive education in higher education and parents mind mindfulness in influence on ToM.