This process would naturally encourage movement along this status continuum, optimally reaching the achieved status, where adolescents have progressively shown commitment to a specific identity. ... Rotheram-Borus (1989) examined 330 Caucasian, African-American, Puerto Rican and Filipino students in an integrated USA high school. Caucasian students in senior grades showed significantly higher moratorium scores and perceived themselves as more likely to have explored and be committed to their ethnic role than the other minority groups. ...

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