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The research aims at exploring the social identity and the emotions
associated with it of 200 adolescent Palestinian refugees Born and living in
Diaspora.
The 200 adolescents were living in seven different refugee camps in Jordan, mean
age 16.53 and gender balanced. For the beginning, and after realizing the
participants’ multi layered social identities (Roccas and Brewer, 2002), it was
decided to have a pilot study to explore the main layers of their social
identity defined by them, and using the Twenty Statements Test (TST: Kuhn &
McPartland, 1954; Cousins, 1989) asking the participants to answer twenty times
to the question “Who-Am- I?”, in order to extract the main layers of identity
emerging from these participants’ spontaneous self-definitions. The results of
the pilot study demonstrated that the participants’ main layers of identity
were: Palestinian, Palestinian refugee, Arab, Young person, and Muslim.
The research is as an empirical contribution to the ongoing field of social
identity theory and the social representations theory, linking the two together.
The research when considering and understanding the Adolescent Palestinian
refugees’ identity had to weight their collective history and the past violence
suffered by the in-group which is shaping their reality, and the complexity of
their social identity. As well as the developmental approaches as adolescents
are a central concern of our research.
The research being explorative is divided into three studies, starting from the
general to the more specific and building on the findings.
The first study has to deal with the Adolescent Palestinian refugees spontaneous
self definitions and the emotions associated with them.
The second study has to deal with the content and structure of the participants’
self definitions, to understand the participants self definitions and its
contents not only through the frequency of their occurrence but also from their
order of evocation, and will be discussed in terms of how socially shared and
accessible to the memory were those contents. The second study will also explore
more of the adolescent Palestinian refugees’ through collecting their negation
of self identities.
The third study will discuss the manipulation carried out through this study by
making one layer of social identity salient to the participants to record the
changes of the content produced (including emotions), and not only the content
but the structure of that content, and according to each layer of their social
identity to make a comparison within participants and in between groups.