Abstract
This study examined the relationship between objective and subjective vitality, in-group language use, and life satisfaction among two groups of bilingual Hungarians adolescents living in Romania: a low objective vitality group from Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár, where Hungarians are the demographic minority, and a high objective vitality group from Sfântu Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy, where Hungarians are the demographic majority. Consistent with predictions, the high objective vitality group reported higher subjective Hungarian vitality, lower subjective Romanian vitality, more frequent use of the Hungarian language, and higher life satisfaction, compared with the low objective vitality group. The effects of objective vitality on language use were partially mediated by subjective Romanian (but not Hungarian) vitality. Conversely, the effects of objective vitality on life satisfaction were fully mediated by subjective Hungarian (but not Romanian) vitality.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 431-450 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Journal of Language and Social Psychology |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 1 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2017.
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by a grant from the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland |
Keywords
- ethnolinguistic vitality
- intergroup
- language use
- life satisfaction
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Psychology
- Education
- Language and Linguistics
- Anthropology
- Sociology and Political Science
- Linguistics and Language