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L'image de soi chez l'adolescent immigré marocain

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Jan. 1, 1987

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Paris 13

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Abstract EN:

The objective of this study is the evaluation of the impact of immigration on the development of young moroccan immigrants. For this purpose, we choose to study the immigrant self image. The image given by an individual of himself or of his environment, instruct us on his living conditions, his evolution and the characteristics he recognizes as his own. The self image is studied from a differential point of view in order to find out the variations existing between groups of young people formed according to the five selected variables. The sample comprises three hundred and two subjects in fourty five schools in the urban community of lille. The four means of investigation used enabled us to get from our subjects answers to the problem raised. The obtained results indicate that the big majority of young people describe themselves and their environment according according to criteria particular to their original culture and according to what they are more than to what-they do. In fact, they make no distinction between the roles taken by their different social partners. The majority give a valorized image of themselves and their families. They feel more integrated in their family circle than in the groups of their comrades, but think that they look like the latter more than the former. A quarter of the population is somehow pervious to french culture values which they use to define themselves and others. Their status of immigrants and their socio-economic and cultural conditions influence their behaviour and reactions. Though these young people feel obliged to take what they think necessary to their social life from french culture, this kind of adaptation and this deviation from the group of origin do not alter their basic personality; they preserve the dominant characteristics of their original culture.

Abstract FR:

L'objectif de ce travail est l'evaluation de l'impact de l'immigration sur le developpement des jeunes marocains. Notre choix s'est porte sur l'etude de l'image de soi. L'image qu'un individu donne de lui-meme ou de son entourage informe sur ses conditions d'existence, d'evolution et sur les caracteristiques qu'il reconnait comme siennes. Elle est etudiee dans une perspective differentielle afin de detecter les variations qui existent entre les groupes des jeunes constitues en fonction des cinq variables retenues. L'echantillon se compose de trois cent deux sujets provenant de quarante cinq etablissements scolaires de la communaute urbaine de lille. Les quatre moyens d'investigation utilises ont permis d'induire chez les sujets les elements de reponse a la problematique posee. Les resultats obtenus montrent que, dans leur grande majorite, les jeunes se definissent et definissent leur entourage a partir des criteres de jugement propres a leur culture d'origine et a partir de la maniere d'etre plus que des roles assumes. En effet, ils ne discriminent pas les roles tenus par leurs differents partenaires sociaux. La majorite d'entre eux donnent, d'eux-memes et de leur famille, une image valorisante. Ils se sentent integres dans leur milieu familial plus que dans leurs groupes de camarades, mais estiment ressembler a ces derniers plus qu'aux premiers. Le quart de cette population est assez permeable aux valeurs de la culture francaise qu'il utilise pour se definir et definir autrui. Leur statut d'immigre et leurs conditions socio-economique et culturelle influencent leur facon de se comporter et de reagir. L'immigration oblige ces jeunes a emprunter a la culture francaise ce qui leur est necessaire a la vie sociale, mais ces ajustements adaptatifs, ces deviations par rapport au groupe d'origine n'alterent en rien leur personnalite de base. Cette jeunesse conserve les traits dominants de sa culture d'origine.