Measurement invariance of self-continuity strategies: Comparisons of early adolescents from Brazil, Canada and Colombia

Developmental Significance of the Social Context as an Additional Self-Continuity Strategy: A Comparison of Emerging Adults From Brazil and the United States

“…Our findings supported these assertions and provided the initial groundwork to use the social context as another self-continuity strategy. The findings from this study replicate others (Santo et al, 2013) in that essentialism and narrativism are two separate strategies that emerging adults use to justify their self-continuity. To our knowledge, the social context as a self-continuity strategy has not been explored before.…”

“…Self-continuity strategies were assessed using a previously established measure that uses a 5-point Likert scale ranging from "Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree" (as validated by Santo et al, 2013). Self-continuity and discontinuity were measured using three items for each (see Table 1 for the specific items).…”

“…Given the increased importance of social relationships during emerging adulthood, personal persistence theory (Chandler et al, 2003) would dictate that the social context as a strategy would be more strongly related to self-continuity as young people get older (i.e., hypothesizing that the latent construct of the social context would be positively associated with age). Finally, we expected that the factor structure was invariant across two samples, one from North America and the other from Brazil, two countries for whom measures of self-continuity and, more importantly, the specific strategies of self-continuity have been validated (Santo et al, 2013).…”