title: Ethnicity and adjustment: A study of the self-image of Anglo-, Greek-, and Italian-Australian working class adolescents.
abstract: Two measures of adjustment, the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory and the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire, were administered to a sample of 450 working class Anglo-, Greek-, and Italian-Australian adolescents in years 9 and 11 of 9 Melbourne high schools. Anglo- and Greek-Australian adolescents scored similarly and significantly higher than Italian-Australians on a number of subscales, suggesting that culture conflict may be an influential factor in the adjustment of Italian-Australians, but not Greek-Australians. Significant differences between the minority groups, in favor of Greek-Australians, were interpreted as resulting from the relative differences in institutional support for and press toward assimilation of the two groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, 3052, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Taylor