出版社：Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research
摘要：The aim of the present comparative study is to find out whether there
are any differences in self-esteem between Pontian and Greek students at the 6th
Grade level. Pontians are a particular type of immigrant in the sense that they are
in fact ‘re-patriated’: they are Greeks whose ancestors lived around Pontos in the
Black Sea area during the seventh century before Christ. They moved to the
interior of the ex-Soviet Union in 1916, and then returned to Greece in 1986.
Although Pontians share a common history, religion, and several cultural
elements with the Greeks, ‘natives’ regard them as ‘foreigners’ and as a result
they are a marginalized population in Greece. This study set out to analyse the
self-concept of a total sample of 1558 students attending 6th Grade. 552 of these
students were Pontian immigrants, 864 were native Greeks while 172 were
Pontian natives. The results of the present research lead us to conclude that there
is a statistically significant difference in the self-concept between the Pontian and
Greek population. It also seems that the marginalized immigrant family, whether
belonging to the same ethnic group or not, comprises a population at risk as far
as the self-concept of the children is concerned
