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| Posted by: | Nicole Shelton |
| Title/Position: | Associate Professor |
| School/Organization: | Princeton University |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP |
| Date posted: | April 1st, 2009 |
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are looking to identify a postdoctoral fellow with whom we can apply for a minority supplement to our currently funded NICHD study on ethnic identity development among African American, Asian American, European American and Latino adolescents (please see abstract below). Applicants should come from underrepresented minority groups in the sciences.
The PIs for the study are Tiffany Yip and Nicole Shelton, and the postdoctoral fellow will be housed in the Psychology Department at Fordham University. We are currently finishing the first year of a 3-year study and anticipate applying for a 2-year postdoctoral position with the right candidate.
Qualifications for the position include: (a) experience working with large longitudinal datasets; (b) an interest in understanding the development of ethnic identity; and (c) experience with quantitative analyses of nested, longitudinal datasets.
We anticipate that the postdoctoral fellow will engage in the following types of activities: (a) data collection, (b) data analyses, (c) writing publications and presenting at conferences, and (d) applying for additional funding.
We anticipate applying for funding in April 2009 and the position will begin in the summer or fall of 2009. Applicants should submit a statement of their research interests, a CV, and the names of 3 individuals who could serve as references.
Application materials should be emailed to Tiffany Yip (tyip@fordham.edu) as soon as possible. Review of materials will begin immediately.
Tiffany Yip
Department of Psychology
Fordham University
332 Dealy Hall
Bronx, NY 10458
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Abstract:
This study examines the role of ethnic identity in the everyday lives of African, Asian and Latino American youths. Adolescence is a development period of identity search and construction; and for minority youth, this identity may be particularly complex given the meaning and significance that United States society places on ethnicity. While many theorists have discussed the fluidity of ethnic identity, there is surprisingly little empirical support and even less longitudinal research. Incorporating developmental and social psychological theories, we take a person by situation approach to our study by examining the fluidity of ethnic identity as youths move through their natural environments and settings. As such, the proposed research examines the impact of context, at a global and immediate level, on the fluidity of ethnic identity salience. Since youths bring certain personal characteristics (e.g., stable ethnic identity) into each setting it is also important to examine the unique experiences of ethnic identity salience for the same individual across different contexts as well as for different individuals in the same contexts. To this end, we employ a combination of experience sampling, daily diary and survey methods to measure ethnic identity at more than on level. As well, the literature on ethnic identity suggests that it is related to how youths feel about themselves; therefore, this study will examine how the fluidity of ethnic identity salience is associated with the fluidity of psychological feelings across days and situations. Finally, we will examine these associations over a three-year period in order to examine how everyday experiences impact the development and maintenance of stable ethnic identity over time. Developmental theorists have suggested that it is youths repeated experience in settings that culminate over time to influence the development and maintenance of more stable traits, we will test this theory by examining ethnic identity.
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