title: At the interface of cultures: multiethnic/multiracial high school and college students.
abstract: Data from 2 studies conducted in the United States--1 with high school students and 1 with college students--are reported. Two hundred forty-one multiethnic/multiracial youths (also termed biethnic/biracial, mixed ethnic/mixed racial, and interracial) were selected using 2 large surveys and compared with 1,041 of their monoethnic peers. Although more than 10% of the students across both studies were multiethnic, less than one third of these respondents labeled themselves as such. Ethnic self-labels varied with setting, type of question, and parental ethnicity. Multiethnic youths did not differ from monoethnics regarding self-esteem. In some cases, multiethnic students had more positive attitudes toward other groups than monoethnics did.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, California State University, Los Angeles 90032, USA.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Phinney
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Alipuria
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002140:California; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012928:Social Desirability; D012931:Social Environment; D012933:Social Identification; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*