Adolescents require meaningful and achievable musical possible selves to imagine a future that includes music. Previous research has investigated how support tertiary music students in their career identity development; however, adolescents make consequential decisions regarding study intentions secondary school. This article reports on the intersections conflicts between adolescent boys’ selve...

Abstract This essay develops a theory of identities, selves, and ‘the self’ that both explains the sense in which selves are narratively constituted also how self relates to person's individual autobiographical identity their various social identities. I argue identities contents structured representations, some hosted individually form, others collectively biographical form. These turn, give r...