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Abstract
A growing internationally mobile community is served by international schools. Their students are seen as adjusting to moves by identity development, acquiring new values and norms through cultural influences from national, individual and perhaps global sources. This occurs by emotional attachment to significant others and subsequent adoption of values which form consonant sets. Identity structure analysis was used to investigate this in a cohort of students over the course of a year. Results demonstrated their use of national and individual value-sets, forming a mosaic of identities rather than a blend.
Keywords culture, identity, Identity Structure Analysis, somatic markers, values
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