Identity and Self-Esteem: A Look at Self-Verification in African American Literature

Individuals are born in family, race, culture, and country, but rarely feel the individuality as a young child. The psychological sense of separating them from their families or caregivers does not appear to be important before they think of themselves as independent self. This applies to all people in all cultures, but seems to play a more important role in being alienated, having an independent identity and acquiring self-esteem.

Research on self-esteem and self-concept has played an important role in the history of African Americans. Self esteem, self-concept and racial identity are more self-characterizing than any other topic in African American psychology. It is widely believed that the view that African Americans are suffering from low self-esteem due to repressive history is not yet endorsed. These self-attributes not only contribute to their own research, but more importantly, the relationship between these structures and the happiness and management of African-Americans (academic achievement, social relations) , And physical and mental health)

Identity and Self-esteem: Identifying Self Identity in African American Literature - Identity and Self-Esteem: Self-certification individuals born in families, races, cultures and countries in African-American literature are seen, but very Children's individuality not as young as strong The psychological feeling of separating them from their families or caregivers does not appear to be important before they think of themselves as independent self. Treatment for African Americans: From 1865 to 1895 - in the 30 years from 1865 to 1895, blacks experienced the most serious series of events in the history of African Americans. Southern blacks face prejudice, detention, slavery, and ultimate survival. Immediately following the approval of the thirteenth revision, it was stated as follows.

Phinney, Cantu, and Kurtz (1997) pointed out that in order to discover that the American identity is only related to non-Hispanic whites, not to African Americans and Hispanic Americans, the identity of the American A single indicator was used. Kiang, Yip and Fuligni (2008) found that in a sample of a multinational youth, there is a certain correlation between American identity and self-esteem, but there is no significant correlation with positive or negative influence It was. In both studies ethnic identity and American identity are positively correlated and suggest biciculturalism