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Youth's self-construction in the context of residential care: The looking-glass self within the youth-caregiver relationship
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Youth in residential care typically struggle to construct a positive sense of self, given their often highly adverse
life experiences. However, the processes that explain youth’s self-representations process in residential care have
not been systematically analyzed. Based on the symbolic interactionism theory, this study addressed this gap in
the literature by testing the Looking Glass Self Hypothesis (LGSH) in this development context within the
relationship between youth and their main residential caregiver. Participants were 755 youth from 71 residential
care units in Portugal, 12–25 years old, and their respective main caregiver (N = 300). Through a multi-mediator
model, we examined whether caregivers’ actual appraisals of the youth in care were associated with youth’s selfrepresentations via caregivers’ reflected appraisals (i.e., youth’s perceptions of their main caregiver’ appraisals
of them). Results supported the LGSH in the context of youth-caregiver relationships in residential care,
emphasizing the important role of residential caregivers in youth’s self-construction process.
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Youth Residential care Symbolic interactionism Looking-glass self 16 hypothesis Social relationships
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Silva, C. S., & Calheiros, M. M. (2022). Youth’s self-construction in the context of residential care: The looking-glass self within the youth-caregiver relationship. Children and Youth Services Review, 132, 106328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106328
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Elsevier