Transcript Ri-partire. La ricerca qualitativa con adolescenti figli

University of Palermo
Department of Psychology
ADOLESCENTS WITH MIGRATION
BACKGROUND LIVING IN SICILY:
A PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINICAL RESEARCH
Giovanna Di Falco, Ph.D.
EMUNI ReS. 2010
Palermo, June 14, 2010
LITERATURE…
Racial identity
Ethnic identity
Acculturation process involves an adjustment or a change of habits,
values and, indirecly, of the identity
(Heppner, Park, & Wei, 2006)
Acculturation
“ACCULTURATIVE STRESS”
(Berry, 1990; Williams & Berry, 1991;
Rodriquez et al., 2002)
LIMITS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVE OF STUDIES
1) The main part of measures for the evaluation of
acculturative process is valid only for adults
2) The main part of measures regard linguistic
competencies, that are just a little part of
acculturation process
Development
Society
Relationship
AIMS

Understanding the role of cultural belonging for
the identity development (individual identity
and social identity) of adolescents with migrant
parents;

Exploring problems that could be
related in encountering a different
social and political context.
SUBJECTS

The sample is composed of 200 adolescents


100 adolescents with both migrant parents (STR sample)
100 adolescents with Italian parents (IT sample)
1. Born in Italy, or living there since childhood
2. Have both migrant parents (no adopted adolescents)
3. Age range: 14-18 years old

The control group is chosen by
the method of stratified random
sample.
MEASURES

FLS (Symbolic Drawing of Life Family Space)
(Mostwin, 1976);

DAP (“Test della Doppia Luna”: “The double moon
test”, by Greco, 1999, modified to underline
borderline and social belonging features);

Short Interview Schedule –
designed specifically for this
study.
RESULTS
INTERVIEWS CONTENT ANALYSIS
(by means of Taltac2 Software)
Semantic aspects:
•The semantic class “Family” is used by STR sample more
than IT sample (43%)
•The semantic class “Nation” is used by STR sample more
than IT sample (77%)
•The words related to “Cultural aspects”
are disseminated all along the text of STR
sample with a dispersion index of 1
INTERVIEWS CONTENT ANALYSIS
(by means of Taltac2 Software)
PECULIAR LANGUAGE STR - IT
Sqm
Values
Words
Occurrencies
619,6
changing
95
614,6
go out
231
408,0
friends
710
380,1
prefer
549
317,1
confide
73
255,9
spend
34
235,2
teachers
173
224,7
parents
402
209,8
mates
246
198,8
places
63
191,7
visit
224
182,9
chat
196
178,2
mother
394
169,1
dialogue
176
166,9
school
448
It’s possible to extract the main
theme of a document by a
comparison
with
another
vocabulary (in this case: standard
Italian)
The peculiar language extracts
the most representative words
used in the text compared to
standard italian.
In STR and IT texts
the mainly
represented
words refer to
development
aspect, typical of
adolescence.
INTERVIEWS CONTENT ANALYSIS
(by means of Taltac2 Software)
PECULIAR LANGUAGE STR – IT
SUBCORPUS IT & STANDARD ITALIAN
FG>1
Sqm
Words
Values
849,7
change
538,4
trust
534,0
Go out
387,6
friends
325,7
teacher
296,8
attend
295,0
like
263,9
pub
261,7
talk
225,0
fight
217,7
spea
215,7
Go out
204,0
school
168,6
parents
164,5
think
164,2
like
158,9
joke
150,9
guy
143,3
study
136,8
Group of friends
SUBCORPUS STR & STANDARD ITALIAN FG>1
Sqm
Values
686,2
458,7
420,4
418,5
275,3
228,5
214
195,3
189
180,2
178,6
171,2
165,3
164,5
160,2
158,5
156,7
153,6
151,2
149,7
Words
Go out
Like
change
Friends
parents
mother
Spend time
go
colleague
study
aunt/uncle
caste
go
Nice
find
Prefer
teachers
Talk
Play games
Father
FLS ANALYSIS
Richness’ grid & Graphic grid
Sum of
Dependent
squares df F value Sig.
Variable
Type III
Nationality
People
2.88
1
1.56
N/A
Emotion
12.30
1
8.14
< .001
Institution
27.07
1
21.12
< .001
MANOVA on categories of Richness’ grid.
Data show a significative multivariate effect of
Nationality: F(196)=11.44, p < .001.
Homogeneity analysis on Graphic grid.
52.7% inertia; (values of inertia .31 for the
first factor; and .22 for the second one).
DAP ANALYSIS
Richness’ grid & Group belonging

Richness: MANOVA on
categories’ grid


IT sample draws more
symbols
tran
STR:
t
(198)=5.05, p<.0001
IT sample draws more
symbols about People and
Emotion themes.
χ2(3)=12.95, p < .01.
The analysis of correct standardized residual,
in correspondence of each cell, shows that
the difference between observed frequencies
and obtained frequencies is attributable to:
•Number of groups Until 2, z =|2.2|, p< .05
•Number of groups More than 5, z =|3.2|, p< 05

Belongings:
Total of Groups
No Until From 3
one
2
to 5
More
than 5
Tot
Nation- IT
ality STR
0
30
52
18 100
1
45
50
4 100
Total
1
75
102
22 200
DAP ANALYSIS
Group belonging: focusing on family group
Family group - STR
42
present
58
absent
Family group - IT
4
present
absent
96
FLS & DAP COMPARISON
Richness’ grid
Sum of
Dependent Variable squares df F value Sig.
Type III
SUBJECTS
SOGGETTI
8,00
FLS
DAP
1
5.46
1
1.83 N/A
People
5.61
1
2.03 N/A
People x Nationality
28.76
1
10.44 < .001
MANOVA on categories of Richness’ grid.
Regarding symbols that represent people,
multivariate analysis shows an interactive
effect of Nationality and People symbols
drawn: F(196)=10.44, p < .001.
7,75
Medie marginali attese
Nationality
2
7,50
7,25
7,00
6,75
Italiano
Straniero
Nazionalità
DISCUSSION

The (missing) correspondence between narratives
and their graphic representations

“Feeling Italians” Vs. “Being foregneirs”

Difficulty in merging one’s own family, cultural, and
social belongings with individual feelings
CONCLUSION
“ Because in my life I faced many difficulties when I was
young.
But you can learn in your life. When I lived in Mauritius my
cousins didn’t understand me, I felt lonely there. My mum
and my father lived in Italy. I have suffered in Italy, but
also in Mauritius I have suffered.”
Mauritian girl
Thank you
Giovanna Di Falco
[email protected]