The Developmental Factors of Identity Strategies Variation among Schooled Central African Adolescent Refugees in the East-Region of Cameroon

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