The name is absent

Comparison of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal response

to Statement 24 - the confirming of identity by others

1.0      74.5

24.32 (c) Discussion

The hypothesis was not supported.

Both Aborigines and non-Aborigines agreed that they wished they
knew what people thought of them (30.3 per cent of non-Aborigines
agreed strongly).

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These responses can be seen on the part of Aborigines not as

evidence of uncertainty of identity, but evidence of an orientation

to social integration, a wishing to have one's identity confirmed by          .

others, a notion basic to sociological theory on the social construction

of identity (Berger, 1971:194ff.) and to psychological theory on
identity formation.

The point to notice here is that the response of Aborigines was
not greater than that of non-Aborigines - there was no support for the

notion that they were over-occupied with this problem.

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24.33 Strain towards withdrawal

The desire to do something bad to prove one's existence was seen
as a mark of socialization into a negative identity, an identity
capable of initiative but in negative ways.

Withdrawal is taken as being associated with identity-diffusion.

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