Description
This study aims to deepen the understanding of how Third Culture Kids (TCKs) receive and maintain long-term perceptions of positive identity. The literature review surveys bodies of research related to Third Culture Kids, intercultural communication conceptions of identity, and communication strategies of identity management. The research framework is a response to Martin and Nakayama’s (2010) call for a dialectical approach to the study of intercultural communication, and reflects an interpretive/critical/activist dialectic paradigm.
This qualitative multi-method research project gathered survey, interview, and visual data through online platforms. Participants were TCKs over age 40 who self-selected as having a positive identity. A modified grounded analysis revealed several key findings connected to agency development, choice making, communication filters, and framing of positivity. Factors contributing to characteristics of a positive identity included sending organization, total number and frequency of moves, and degrees of difference among their cultural contexts.
This qualitative multi-method research project gathered survey, interview, and visual data through online platforms. Participants were TCKs over age 40 who self-selected as having a positive identity. A modified grounded analysis revealed several key findings connected to agency development, choice making, communication filters, and framing of positivity. Factors contributing to characteristics of a positive identity included sending organization, total number and frequency of moves, and degrees of difference among their cultural contexts.
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Title
- Communication strategies contributing to the positive identities of third culture kids: an intercultural communication perspective on identity
Contributors
- Jung, Amy Christine (Author)
- Broome, Benjamin (Thesis advisor)
- Martin, Judith (Committee member)
- Tracy, Sarah (Committee member)
- Cottrell, Anna (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2016
Subjects
- Communication
- Identity
- Intercultural communication
- Positive Research
- Qualitative
- Third Culture Kid (TCK)
- Third-culture children--Foreign countries--Social conditions.
- Third-culture children
- Third-culture children--Foreign countries--Psychology.
- Third-culture children
- Adult children--Foreign countries--Social conditions.
- Adult children
- Adult children--Foreign countries--Psychology.
- Adult children
- Social interaction in children--Foreign countries.
- Social interaction in children
- Intercultural communication--Foreign countries.
- Intercultural communication
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Note
- thesisPartial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2016
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 105-115)
- Field of study: Communication
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Statement of Responsibility
by Amy Jung