Abstract

Abstract This study conducted a survey 212 adolescents in multi-cultural family to measure the level of their discrimination experience and acculturation stress by comparing with social integration analysis frame of D. Heater and examined how it affects them to national identity. Followings are the main results of this study. First, after measuring the discrimination experience level of those surveyed, their average was a bit higher than the normal level, showing 2.63(SD=.72), and their acculturation stress was 2.48(SD=.65) which is average. Second, their level of national identity showed 2.16(SD=.57), which was lower than the normal level, and there was statistically a meaningful difference between the groups depending on their academic level, parents' marital status, mother’s Korean ability. Third, the factors that affected in national identity were in the order of their discrimination experience(β=-.305), parents' marital status(β=.286), acculturation stress(β=-.225), academic level(β=.186), mother’s Korean ability(β=.173). Based on these results, several ways are suggested to improve national identity of adolescents in multi-cultural family

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