Affective Personality Characteristics Associated with Undergraduate Ego Identity Formation

Dellas, Marie; Jemigan, Louise P.

doi:10.1177/074355489053004

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“…This task is particularly complex since individuals have to enact significant choices in multiple domains: while some of them can assume relevant commitments in both ideological (e.g., vocation, religion, politics) and interpersonal (e.g., relationships with friends and partners) domains most youth may endorse salient commitments in one identity domain but not in another one (Bosma and Jackson 1990). In fact, as documented by empirical studies (Dellas and Jernigan 1990;Goossens 2001;Fadjukoff et al 2005;Pastorino et al 1997), there is low congruence in identity statuses across domains.…”

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Correlates of Identity Configurations: Three Studies with Adolescent and Emerging Adult Cohorts

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Scrignaro

Sica

et al. 2011

J Youth Adolescence

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Adolescence and emerging adulthood are two core developmental periods in which individuals can develop a meaningful identity across domains. However, there is a lack of studies exploring correlates of different identity configurations. The purpose of this article was to fill this gap in examining correlates of configurations characterized by identity stability or instability in both ideological and relational domains or identity stability in one domain and instability in the other domain. Three studies were presented. In the first study, we investigated links between identity configurations and internalizing problem behaviors in early and middle adolescents (N=1,891; M (age) =14; 55% female); in the second study, we focused on associations between identity configurations and identity functions in late adolescents and early emerging adults (N=1,085; M (age) =19; 63% female); in the third study, we investigated relationships between identity configurations, sense of coherence, and basic psychological need satisfaction in emerging adults (N=489; M (age) =21; 71% female). Overall, findings highlighted that participants experiencing a condition of identity stability in both domains reported a better profile than their peers displaying a condition of instability in both realms. Further, individuals with identity stability only in one domain reported intermediate scores and the effect provided by each domain varied according to the correlate examined and the age group taken into account. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 84%

Correlates of Identity Configurations: Three Studies with Adolescent and Emerging Adult Cohorts

Crocetti

Scrignaro

Sica

et al. 2011

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Identity status literature also confirms the existence of a strong link between anxiety and identity. In fact, a series of studies has highlighted that individuals in the various Marcia's identity statuses differed in anxiety levels (Adams et al 1985;Dellas and Jernigan 1990;Marcia 1967;Marcia and Friedman 1970;Oshman and Manosevitz 1974;Rotheram-Borus 1989;Schenkel and Marcia 1972). Therefore, it is worth considering which identity statuses are characterized by low anxiety and which, in contrast, are characterized by high anxiety.…”

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Anxiety Trajectories and Identity Development in Adolescence: A Five-wave Longitudinal Study

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Klimstra

Keijsers

et al. 2008

J Youth Adolescence

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The aim of this five-wave longitudinal study was to investigate the relationship between anxiety and adolescent identity development. Participants were 1,313 adolescents who annually completed measures of anxiety and identity. Growth Mixture Modeling (GMM) analyses demonstrated that the adolescent population was best typified by two latent growth trajectory classes: a low anxiety class (n = 1,199) characterized by a low initial level of anxiety that decreased over time and a high anxiety class (n = 114) characterized by a higher initial level of anxiety that increased over time. To answer our research question, we tested a model in which the anxiety classes predicted initial levels and rates of change of three identity dimensions: commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment. Findings indicated that the high anxiety adolescents displayed a more troublesome identity development than their low anxiety peers, since their commitments became weaker with age, and they reconsidered them intensively.

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“…In this context, it was speculated in the present study that should survivors of (acquaintance) rape have lower levels of ego-identity achievement (McEwan et al, 2002), and should ego-identity in turn be linked to locus of control (Adams & Shea, 1979;Dellas & Jernigan, 1990;Troy, 1996), then women who were raped by a person they knew should report greater external locus of control compared to women who were not assaulted. This relationship between acquaintance rape and external locus of control would be mediated by low egoidentity achievement.…”

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“…The difference in personal control referred to by Erikson very much resembles Rotter's (1975) internal-external locus of control construct, which deals with one's belief about the degree of control one has over the events of one's life and one's ability to cope with them. Indeed, Adams and Shea (1979), Dellas and Jernigan (1990), and Troy (1996) found an association between a strong personal identity and internal locus of control (the belief that one is in control of one's life as opposed to the expectation that luck, chance, or powerful others control what happens).…”

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Acquaintance Rape, Ego-Identity Achievement, and Locus of Control

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One hundred and thirteen women participated in a study of the relationship between acquaintance rape, ego-identity achievement, and locus of control. Results showed that, compared to women who had not been assaulted, survivors of acquaintance rape reported lower ego-identity achievement and greater beliefs that the outcomes of their lives were controlled by luck, chance, or powerful others. It was further found that the relationships between acquaintance rape and the respective forms of external locus of control (Chance and Powerful Others) were mediated by level of ego-identity achievement.People make assumptions about themselves and about the world. These assumptions form the basis of a personal theory of reality which allows them a sense of self, a sense of efficacy, and a sense of order, and which influences their choices and actions. However, these assumptions often cannot account for traumatic events (Janoff-Bulman, 1985;Janoff-Bulman, 1989;Janoff-Bulman & Hanson-Frieze, 1983).Rape is an interpersonal trauma that may be defined as the nonconsensual sexual penetration of a person, obtained by physical force, by threat of bodily harm, or when the victim is incapable of giving consent by virtue of mental SOCIAL

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Affective Personality Characteristics Associated with Undergraduate Ego Identity Formation

Cited by 18 publications

References 18 publications

Correlates of Identity Configurations: Three Studies with Adolescent and Emerging Adult Cohorts

Correlates of Identity Configurations: Three Studies with Adolescent and Emerging Adult Cohorts

Anxiety Trajectories and Identity Development in Adolescence: A Five-wave Longitudinal Study

Acquaintance Rape, Ego-Identity Achievement, and Locus of Control

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