Emerging Commitments and Identity-Processing Style in Middle Adolescence.

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Authors

SOKOLIOVÁ Michaela BOUŠA Ondřej MACEK Petr

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference European Conference on Developmental Psychology, 23. – 27. 8. 2011, Bergen, Norway.
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Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Field Psychology
Keywords Commitments; exploration; identity processing style
Description This study examines processual and content aspects of identity during middle adolescence. The main question is how identity processing style (informative/normative/diffuse) affects the content of identity (in terms of exploration and commitment) in different domains of life. The sample includes 256 Czech adolescents who have participated in the long-term longitudinal research ELSPAC (age 17). As instruments, the Czech adaptation of the Groningen Identity Development Scale (GIDS; Bosma, 1985) and the Czech version of the Identity Style Inventory (ISI4, Berzonsky et al., 2007) were administrated. We analyze the content of commitments, strength of these commitments, and the amount of exploration in different life domains (school, occupation, leisure-time activities, philosophy of life, friendship, and romantic relationships). These identity/commitment variables are related to three identity styles. Results indicate that adolescents who prefer an informative identity processing style are not committed yet. Adolescents who adopt normative style report commitments in some life domains, however certain number of them are very weak. Those who relied on a diffuse/avoidant identity processing style lacked firm commitments.
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