Investigates the relationship between cognitive developmental level and the ideal self in adolescence, sampling 223 male and female 12- and 13-, and 15- and 16-year-old working and middle class English comprehensive school students, hypothesizing that maturity of the ideal self would be related to cognitive development. (Author/RK)

Hypothesized that women who were more profeminist in their attitudes toward women's roles would score significantly higher on a measure of identity achievement than women whose attitudes were more traditional. Measures were administered to a random sample of 300 female college students. Results strongly supported the hypothesis. (Author)

Discusses Psychomat groups, which were concerned with student anonymity, a reach out'' to lonely students, dealing with identity crisis, concretizing one's purpose in life and also dealing with student attitudes with regard to major social issues. (Author/RK)

Article searches for educational developments in the inter-related areas of personal development and social relationships. (Author/RK)

This study is a replication and extension of the work of Forbes and Ashton (1998). Seventy-seven African American high school students completed the revised version of the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status. Most of the students were found to be in uncommitted identity statuses. Similar results were found in both ideological and…

Examines identity development of African-American students in both the interpersonal and the ideological domain. Results show that most of the students were engaged in the identity-exploration process. Results for the interpersonal domain were similar to those for the ideological domain. (Author/GCP)