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Abstract
The study on which this article is based investigated the salience of nationality in adolescents’ self-concept as a function of the diversity of the school context. According to the distinctiveness postulate, people selectively attend to and encode aspects that are most distinctive. We therefore predicted that students in the nationally heterogeneous school environment would mention nationality more frequently in their spontaneous self-concept when questioned than would those in the more homogeneous school setting. Furthermore, we expected minority members to mention nationality more frequently. These predictions were confirmed and implications will be discussed.
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Author biographies
Elke Murdock is a Researcher (Chercheur en Formation) at the University of Luxembourg. She has a degree in Psychology from the Saarland University, a Master’s degree from Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA, which focused on cross-cultural psychology, and an MBA from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Since 2010 she has been working on her PhD project: ‘The construal of national identities within a multinational context’ at the University of Luxembourg.
Franziska S Hirt earned a trilingual Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Luxembourg. Her Bachelor’s thesis, with the title ‘Salience of nationality in the spontaneous self-concept: A comparison between a homogeneous versus heterogeneous national context’, brought her into contact with cross-cultural research. Currently, she is completing a Master’s degree in work and organisational psychology at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Dieter Ferring is Professor of Developmental Psychology and Geropsychology and Head of the Integrative Research Unit on Social and Individual Development at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. His main research areas and publications cover life-span development and ageing, including intergenerational relations, self-regulative processes and identity under a life-span perspective, coping and regulation of subjective well-being in old age, as well as technology use and ageing.
