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Comparing Psychological and Sociological Approaches to Identity: Identity Status, Identity Capital, and the Individualization Process.
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Cote, James E.; Schwartz, Seth J. – Journal of Adolescence, 2002
Explores a link between the psychologically oriented identity status paradigm, and the sociologically oriented individualization theory. The primary link between these two approaches appears to be that the individualization process can be operationalized in terms of agency in identity formation. Concludes that identity statuses representing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification (Psychology), Individual Development, Personal Autonomy
Traditionalism and Feminism: A Typology of Strategies Used by University Women to Manage Career-Family Conflicts.
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Cote, James E. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1986
Presents an Eriksonian analysis of the impact of traditionalism and feminism on the identity formation of university-attending women and postulates four "identity strategies": traditionalism, ambivalent semi-traditionalism, confident semi-traditionalism, and feminism. Describes a study assessing the reliability and validity of an…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Feminism, Foreign Countries
The Genesis of the Humanistic Academic: A Second Test of Erikson's Theory of Ego Identity Formation.
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Cote, James E.; Levine, Charles G. – Youth and Society, 1992
Extends previous research on the theory of ego identity formation of E. Erikson by investigating the role of several factors in the psychosocial development of university professors. A survey of 623 Canadian academics supports Eriksonian ideas about childhood superego formation and psychosocial crises experienced during adolescence. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adolescent Development, College Faculty, Foreign Countries