About the project

It is well known that parents and social environment play a crucial role in child's identity formation. While parents impact children's identity formation through education, self-example, and culture at home, the neighborhood, school, and social connections outside child's home can significantly shape child's self-identification.

This research project aims to use Growing Up in New Zealand survey to analyze the role of parents and social environment, such as school, in children's cultural identity formation. Specifically, we will analyze the responses to  questions related to self-identification and questions about the school environment and the environment at home to test the following hypotheses:

1. The degree of child's satisfaction with school and social environment outside home influences child's cultural self-identification.

2. Child's positive (negative) perception about the environment at home influences the likelihood that this child's self-identification is different from his/her/their parents self-identification.

3. Misalignment of children's and their parents' social identification is associated with dissatisfaction with social environment, school policies, or environment at home, as well as family's material well-being.

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Start date: 15/11/2024

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