“…However, research points to two contradictory directions. Some studies found no relationship between membership of an ethnic group and self-concept dimensions (Edwards, 1974;Wylie, 1979;Verkuyten, 1988), while others reported a significantly more positive self-concept among young people in certain ethnic minorities, e.g., blacks in the US (Rosenberg and Simmons, 1972;Trowbridge, 1972). Negative conceptions of self were not found in the present study, at least to the extent that they were explored within the Identity/Self-concept category.…”