Ethnic Identity in Arab Americans: Gender, Religious Upbringing, and Age Differences.

ABSTRACT: Arab Americans constitute a diverse, sizeable ethnic minority in the United States. However, limited research has examined the content of Arab American ethnic identity and whether this ethnic identity differs by demographic factors. In the present study, we developed measures of Arab American ethnic identity and cultural practice, and assessed differences in those variables by gender, religious affiliation (Muslim, Christian), and age. Arab American adults recruited online from Amazon Mechanical Turk (N = 391) completed an adaptation of the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity and a measure of cultural practice that was created for this study based on pre-existing scales. Items loaded onto dimensions of identity (ethnic centrality, private regard, public regard), and subscal

SUBMITTER: Rahal D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021341 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature