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

Table 2

Age in the construction of identity strategies among Central Africanrefugee adolescents and their socio-emotional adaptation

Indicators Average/Standard deviation
12 to 14 years old
(n = 17)
15 to 18 years old
(n = 167 )
z-test Probability
(p)

Identity Strategies
Self redefinition 8.35/3.28 8.49/3.66 -0.149 .002
Self-display 9.12/3.87 7.92/3.43 1.346 .041
Self repair 6.88/3.67 7.06/3.45 -0.201 .043
Self/other cancellation 6.18/3.18 5.37/4.16 0.777 .002

Emotion Regulatory Strategies
Revaluation 29.53/8.34 28.14/7.75 0.695 .003
Deletion 16.82/6.42 17.27/5.99 -0.291 .010

Cognitive Coping of Emotuion
Adaptive 63.13/4.97 65.47/5.37 -0.515 .001
Not adaptive 35.44/6 44.85/5.25 -2.605 .031