IMMIGRANT CHILDREN’S ETHNIC AND NATIONAL IDENTITY 1 A Longitudinal Investigation of Immigrant Children’s Ethnic and National Identities Laura Froehlich 1 , Sarah E. Martiny 2 , & Kay Deaux 3 1 FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany 2 UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway 3 New York University, USA *Address correspondence to: Dr. Laura Froehlich Department of Social Psychology Insitute for Psychology FernUniversität in Hagen Universitätsstr. 33 D – 58097 Hagen Phone: +49 2331 987 2984 E-Mail: [email protected] Author contribution: All authors designed the study, discussed the results and edited the manuscript. The first author collected and analyzed the data, and was mainly responsible for writing the manuscript. Acknowledgements: This research was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); grant number: 01JC1104. We thank Julia Arendt, Zübeyde Karadeniz, Karoline Müller and Julia Haselberger for their help with collecting the data.