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The Developmental Factors of Identity Strategies Variation among Schooled Central African Adolescent Refugees in the East-Region of Cameroon
Open Journal of Educational Research
| Vol 1, Issue 1
Table 1. Gender in the construction of identity strategies among Central Africanrefugee adolescents and their socio-emotional adaptation
| Indicators | Average/Standard deviation | |||
| Girl refugees (n = 77) | Boy refugees (n = 107) | z-test | Probability (p) | |
| Identity strategies | ||||
| Self redefinition | 7.10/3.33 | 9.47/3.51 | -4.606 | .008 |
| Self-display | 6.75/3.25 | 8.96/3.37 | -4.464 | .000 |
| Self repair | 6.05/2.87 | 7.76/3.68 | -3.390 | .000 |
| Self/other cancellation | 4.69/2.20 | 5.99/4.94 | -2.167 | .01 |
| Emotion Regulatory strategies | ||||
| Revaluation | 28.68/7.67 | 27.99/7.90 | 0.587 | .032 |
| Deletion | 17.04/5.89 | 17.36/6.13 | -0.361 | .017 |
| Cognitive Coping of Emotions | ||||
| Adaptive | 64.77/5.39 | 65.60/5.29 | -0.318 | .001 |
| Not adaptive | 45.10/5.05 | 43.17/5.64 | 0.883 | .0379 |