Carlsson, Johanna (2015). Evolving identities: Contents and processes of identity development among people in their late twenties. The overall aim of this thesis was to study contents and processes of identity development among people in their late twenties. The studies are based on identity status interviews and surveys performed with participants in the GoLD (Gothenburg Longitudinal study of ...

This study was an endeavor to develop a model of identity among Iranian EFL learners. To achieve this end, a multiphase design was implemented. Initially, it attempted to investigate different factors of identity to propose and validate a model. Thus, 120 EFL learners studying in different English language institutes in Iran were randomly selected, and 36 learners were interviewed about their v...

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The association between racial and ethnic discrimination and psychological distress was examined among 2,047 Asians (18 to 75 years of age) in the National Latino and Asian American Study, the first-ever nationally representative study of mental health among Asians living in the United States. Stratifying the sample by age in years (i.e., 18 to 30, 31 to 40, 41 to 50, 51 to 75) and nativity sta...

Ethnic and American identity, as well as positivity and negativity toward multiple social groups, were assessed in 392 children attending 2nd or 4th grade in various New York City neighborhoods. Children from 5 ethnic groups were recruited, including White and Black Americans, as well as recent immigrants from China, the Dominican Republic, and the former Soviet Union. For ethnic minority child...

Community mobilisation among sex workers is recognised as an important HIV/STI prevention strategy. However, factors such as poverty and stigma often negatively influence participation in activities that attempt to mobilise around a common identity of 'sex workers'. A qualitative study was conducted to explore the relationship between social identity and participation among 24 sex workers enrol...

We examine four sociobehavioral theories – identity theory, social identity theory, comparison theory, and status theory – and we find that all four share a common core of three basic elements: personal quantitative characteristics, personal qualitative characteristics, and primordial outcomes. Though all four theories retain substantial areas outside the common core, nonetheless the existence ...

activation has been demonstrated in the absence of conditioned fear, subjects have not been required to make a forced-choice response about the nature of the unseen expression. That is, they were not engaged in the sort of guesswork undertaken by blindsight patients. It is plausible that GY, a much-practised observer, is able to monitor his auto-nomic responses and use them to mediate above-cha...