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Promotion of Ego-Identity Development: Can Short-Term Intervention Facilitate Growth?
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Markstrom-Adams, Carol; And Others – Journal of Adolescence, 1993
Two studies assessed perspective-taking training strategies for effectiveness in promoting ego-identity formation among older adolescents. Found advances in ideological achievement among experimental groups. Further significant findings were absent. Given limited findings of both studies, it was concluded that it may be very difficult to create…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Individual Development
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
An Existentialist Account of Identity Formation.
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Bilsker, Dan – Journal of Adolescence, 1992
Gives account of Marcia's identity formation model in language of existentialist philosophy. Examines parallels between ego-identity and existentialist approaches. Describes identity in terms of existentialist concepts of Heidegger and Sartre. Argues that existentialist account of identity formation has benefits of clarification of difficult…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Existentialism, Foreign Countries, Models
Moratorium-Achievement (Mama) Cycles in Lifespan Identity Development: Value Orientations and Reasoning System Correlates.
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Stephen, Joanne; And Others – Journal of Adolescence, 1992
Examined significance of instrumental versus experiential orientation and of formistic versus dialectical thinking in identity research. Among 60 college students, those in identity status characterized by formation and maintenance of structure (Foreclosure) were instrumentally oriented whereas those characterized by openness to change and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Narrative Structure and Parental Influence in Career Development.
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Young, Richard A.; And Others – Journal of Adolescence, 1994
Examined parental influence as retrospectively constructed through narratives of young adults (n=50). Identified five narrative types: progressive narrative with dramatic turning point, progressive narrative within positive evaluation frame, progressive narrative with negatively evaluated stages, anticipated regressive narrative, and sad…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Career Development, Foreign Countries, Narration
Adaptive Regression and Ego Identity.
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Bilsker, Dan; Marcia, James E. – Journal of Adolescence, 1991
College students (n=71) completed inventory of adaptively regressive experiences and Identity Status Interview. Found that Moratorium status students (actively engaged in identity formation) showed greater disposition to adaptive regression than did individuals in other statuses. Findings support view that adaptive regression may serve function in…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, College Students, Coping