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Sociopolitical Identity of Turkish Emerging Adults: The Role of Gender, Religious Sect, and Political Party Affiliati

Sociopolitical Identity of Turkish Emerging Adults: The Role of Gender, Religious Sect, and Political Party Affiliation. Vanessa Victoria Volpe. Acknowledgements. Faculty Mentor: Dr. Selcuk R. Sirin Dalal Katsiaficas Dr. Gigliana Melzi The Spencer Foundation. Sociopolitical Identity.

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Sociopolitical Identity of Turkish Emerging Adults: The Role of Gender, Religious Sect, and Political Party Affiliati

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  1. Sociopolitical Identity of Turkish Emerging Adults: The Role of Gender, Religious Sect, and Political Party Affiliation Vanessa Victoria Volpe

  2. Acknowledgements • Faculty Mentor: Dr. Selcuk R. Sirin • Dalal Katsiaficas • Dr. Gigliana Melzi • The Spencer Foundation

  3. Sociopolitical Identity Political Context Social Interaction Individual

  4. Sociopolitical Identity • Sociopolitical identity: the evaluation of one's political group identity as it is experienced through social interaction (Tajfel & Turner, 1979). • Maintaining a defined sociopolitical identity is an important developmental task for emerging adults (e.g., Arnett, 2000; Flanagan & Sherrod, 1998; Schildkraut, 2005). Individual

  5. Components of Sociopolitical Identity • A defined sociopolitical identity involves four components. • Sociopolitical identity has been linked with • civic and political engagement (Schildkraut, 2005) • the maintenance of interpersonal relationships (Neumann, 1993). (Luhtanen & Crocker, 1992)

  6. The Risk of Social Identity Stress • Social identity stress: the social experience of being criticized for holding viewpoints of a distinct political group (Hayes, Scheufele, & Huge, 2006). • Often results in damaged personal relationships, feelings of displacement, and feeling that one's identity is not valuable (Neumann, 1993). • Might result in a lack of exploration for emerging adults, which may then lead to limiting social engagement with members of other political groups.

  7. The Potential of Own-Group Preference • Own-group preference: limiting social and cultural engagement with members of political out-groups • Limiting engagement to in-group significantly enhances positive feeling about in-group (e.g., Brewer, 1979). • Own-group preference might buffer the impact of social identity stress on sociopolitical identity.

  8. Current Study Rationale • Social identity stress and own-group preference have never been examined in a political context. • There is a paucity of research on how emerging adults experience and define their sociopolitical identity in political contexts. • Research on sociopolitical identity may inform future research on intergroup relations and political engagement practices.

  9. The Case of Turkey • Turkish emerging adults represent the majority of the 75 million Turkish nationals. • Conflicting viewpoints on the nature of the political context: polarized vs. harmonious. • Three important contextual considerations: • Gender • Religious Sect • Political Party Affiliation

  10. Research Questions • How do emerging adults in Turkey report their social identity stress, own-group preference, and sociopolitical identity? • Are there gender, religious sect, and/or political party affiliation differences on social identity stress, own-group preference, and sociopolitical identity?

  11. Research Questions • Does own-group preference moderate the predictive relation between social identity stress and sociopolitical identity? Own-Group Preference Social Identity Stress Sociopolitical Identity

  12. Participants • Diverse nationally representative sample of Turkish emerging adults (N=1242) • Between the ages of 18 and 28 (M=21.50, SD=2.29) • Gender: 50.6% female • Religious Sect: 65% Sunni, 11% Shafi, 9% Alevi • Political Group: • 44% CHP (Secularist) • 33% AKP (Moderate) • 15% MHP (Islamist) • 8% Other

  13. Measures

  14. Procedure • Data were taken from a larger national study of Turkish emerging adults (Political Identity in Conflict Study, PI: Selcuk R. Sirin) • Self-report surveys collected in over 50 locations were adapted by a multidisciplinary team of Turkish researchers to be culturally and linguistically appropriate.

  15. Results: Sample Characteristics Note: 131 participants reported no own-group preference

  16. Social Identity Stress by Gender t(1240) = 4.45, p < .01

  17. Own-Group Preference by Gender t(1109) = -4.05, p < .01

  18. Sociopolitical Identity by Gender t(1240) = -2.21, p < .05

  19. Social Identity Stress by Religious Sect F(2,1240) = 31.91, p < .01

  20. Own-Group Preference by Religious Sect F(2,1109) = 3.12, p < .01

  21. Sociopolitical Identity by Religious Sect F(2,1240) = 5.79, p < .01

  22. Social Identity Stress by Political Party F(2,1240) = 17.39, p < .01

  23. Own-Group Preference by Political Party F(2,1109) = 7.03, p < .01

  24. Results: Moderation Model • Contrary to the first hypothesis, own-group preference did not predict sociopolitical identity when controlling for gender, religious sect, and political party affiliation, F(4, 1240) = 2.64, p = .71. • Therefore, the role of own-group preference was not assessed, ΔR2 = 0, F(6, 1240) = 14.61, p = .51.

  25. Discussion • The Rejection-Identification Model (Branscombe, Schmitt, & Harvey, 1999) may not be uniform for all national contexts or social identity domains. • The structure of identity as flexible and multi-dimensional (Katsiaficas, Futch, Fine, & Sirin, in press; Seider & Gardner, 2009; Sirin & Fine, 2007). • Researchers should consider the intersections of gender, religious sect, and political party affiliation in order to more fully map the sociopolitical identities of Turkish emerging adults. • Results may shed light on the co-existence of western and secular ideologies within the political landscape in Turkey and highlight a generational difference.

  26. Thank you Questions?

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