4 modes of reacting to the late adolescent identity crisis were described, measured, and validated. Criteria for inclusion in 1 of 4 identity statuses were the presence of crisis and commitment in the areas of occupation and ideology. Statuses were determined for 86 college male Ss by means of individual interviews. Performance on a stressful concept-attainment task, patterns of goal setting, a...

PURPOSE We examined the adjustment to societal change following the fall of communism in a group of Soviet war veterans from Russia and the Ukraine. The focus of the study was on the dynamics of identity development, and especially generativity, in a period of intense social upheaval. DESIGN AND METHODS We administered measures of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and generativity to 50 World W...

This paper intends to evaluate cultural capital & social identity of different dimensions of cultural capital through self-description of people. Then it may study any correlation of cultural capital with different indexes of social identity. Cultural capital in accordance with the viewpoint of Borodino has three dimensions including: Conceptual dimension, Real dimension and finalized dimension...

This paper describes a model of identity resilience developed within social psychology and derived specifically from the basic tenets Identity Process Theory (IPT). refers to extent which an individual possesses structure that: facilitates adaptive coping in face threat or uncertainty, can absorb change while retaining its subjective meaning value, is perceived be able cope with trauma without ...

The aim of this five-wave longitudinal study of 923 early to middle adolescents (50.7% boys; 49.3% girls) and 390 middle to late adolescents (43.3% boys and 56.7% girls) is to provide a comprehensive view on change and stability in identity formation from ages 12 to 20. Several types of change and stability (i.e., mean-level change, rank-order stability, and profile similarity) were assessed fo...

The article examines the inter-relations between self-identity and organizational change in advanced capitalist societies characterized by deregulation of markets,privatization and globalizing economic relations. It compares two contrasting perspectives on selfhood: the reflexive self (Giddens, 1991) and the corroded self (Sennett, 1998). Giddens suggests that contemporary organizations, rather...

The purpose of these studies was to examine the relationship between perceptions of exercise-related changes (i.e., perceived mastery and physical change) and certainty with regard to the self-as-exerciser. It was hypothesized that seeing "change" would be associated with more favorable levels of exercise self-certainty and behavior relative to "no change." Online surveys were repeatedly admini...

background: despite all the positive features of the internet, there are serious concerns about the use and effects of this technology on human mental health. this study aimed to determine the relationship between the internet addiction and students’ social self-efficacy, identity styles and gender differences. methods: in a descriptive-correlational study, 200 undergraduate and graduate studen...

This paper tries to study the effective factors involving in social identity among high school students in Amol (Northern Iran) from three different viewpoints: Religion, family and national ones. This research is done by survey and questionnaire method. The sample were 372 Boys and girls. The findings show variables like self satisfaction, rationalization of affairs, and self-steastm influen...

People often spontaneously apply “recency beliefs” to form predictions of future outcomes based on prior outcomes. Different recency beliefs in the same context (e.g. that future outcomes are either positively or negatively correlated with recent outcomes) can lead to starkly different anticipations for the same future outcome. We propose that these anticipations of future outcomes can have a d...