Identitate nazionalaren garapena Euskal Herriko haur eta nerabeengan

Abstract

This study investigated the development of national identity in Basque children who are growing up in different sociolinguistic contexts. It was found that both national identification, evaluations of, and feelings towards, national in-groups and out-groups and positive and affective distinctiveness ascribed to the in-group differed in the three linguistic subgroups. Compared with the range of differences which occurred as a function of linguistic group, there were relatively few differences which occurred as a function of the children’s ages. It is concluded that traditional cognitive-developmental theories are unable to explain the socio-cultural variability that is exhibited in the development of national identity, and that SRT and SIT may provide more useful conceptual frameworks for understanding children’s development in this domain.