Multiple identities juggling game: types of identity integration and their outcomes

Abstract

ABSTRACT In order to analyze how individuals socialized into multiple cultures integrate their different socio-cultural belongings, Benet-Martinez and colleagues introduced the construct of Bicultural Identity Integration. More recently, this construct has been applied to the study of identity dynamics beyond ethnicity under the more general rubric of Identity Integration (II), and with the goal of examining how other types of self-aspects intersect with each other. This Special Issue showcases current work on II and illustrates how this approach has become an effective theoretical tool to study identity processes in different social contexts. The multiplicity of methodologies used, the differing participants’ backgrounds, and the various identity domains explored, confirm that the II framework is useful to understand the complexity of multiple identifications.