Profiles of Multi-cultural Identity Integration in a Conflictual Context |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Education, Beit-Berl College, Beit Berl, 4490500, Israel;2. School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;3. ICREA and Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain;1. Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;2. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement NSCR, The Netherlands;3. Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands;1. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)/CIS-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal;2. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands;1. Aarhus University, Denmark;2. University of Miami, USA;1. School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore;2. University of Dayton, United States;3. University of Michigan, United States;1. Université Laval, Canada;2. Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada |
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| Abstract: | This study addressed the phenomenon of multiple social identities in a conflictual context. It examined the case of Palestinian-Christians living in Israel, a nation imbued with ethno-religious conflict, a complex combination of three distinct collective identities: national (Palestinian-Arab), ethno-religious (Christian), and civic (Israeli). The current study proposed a conceptual and methodological expansion of the “Bicultural Identity Integration” (BII) model (Benet-Martinez & Haritatos, 2005) as a way to assess different levels of integration between three types of identities (national, ethno-religious, and civic) in a sample of 383 Palestinian Christians with Israeli citizenship. Results revealed that the three integrations of BII (Arab-Christian, Arab-Israeli, Christian-Israeli) are positively predicted by favorable intergroup contact with Jews and Muslims and negatively by discrimination by these groups. Further, Latent Profile Analyses revealed four distinct identity profiles: two (“Pro-Arab” and “Pro-Israel”) were highly conflictual and characterized by both discrimination and negative intergroup contact, and two (“Ambivalent” and “Peaceful”) were characterized by less conflict across pairs of identities. These findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical contribution to the study of multiple social and collective identities in contexts of conflict, and their practical implications for the groups under study. |
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| Keywords: | Bicultural Identity Integration (BII) Identity profiles Discrimination Intergroup contact Palestinian Christians Arabs Latent Profile Analysis |
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