War Boosts Self-Esteem Of Iraqi Teens
KNOW that: Baghdad teenagers show heightened sense of self in the face of war
For obvious reasons, few social science researchers have ventured into Iraq since the American-led invasion. However, in 2004, a year into the hostilities, the US Army funded a team of Iraqi interviewers, based at the Asharq Centre for Polls and Marketing Research, to go into ten neighbourhoods of Baghdad to survey the concerns and self-esteem of 1000 teenagers.
The results showed that rather than damaging their sense of self, the war appeared to have bolstered the teenagers’ self-esteem, especially in those who felt most strongly that their country was under threat.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 7:20 am
Everyone knows that you can’t have a strong sense of group identity without having a strong sense of who isn’t part of your group (and nothing draws lines quicker or stronger than a war) - I hope the Americans didn’t pay too much for this research. Or was it all so they could make a press release???