The identity imperative: mentoring as a tool for Christian young adult identity formation

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Samuel Brailey ◽  
Stephen Douglas Parker
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Adult Identity

scholarly journals Becoming Backpack: Towards a Counter-Inscription of Young Adult Collegian Identity Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-179
Author(s):  
Kelly Clark/Keefe
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Student Identity ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Adult Identity ◽  
Prose Narratives ◽  
Poetic Prose ◽  
Participatory Arts ◽  
Opening Up

This article invites readers to encounter the author’s early attempts at engaging creatively with data produced during a research project called Life Lines: The Art of Being Alive to Young Adulthood. Launched in January 2019, the Life Lines project was conceived as a critical participatory arts-engaged research endeavor aimed at opening up conventional theoretical wisdom about the nature of young adult college student identity formation. In addition to providing details of the inquiry project’s design and aims, a series of visual and poetic prose narratives open and become threaded throughout the article. These multimodal expressive forms function as a type of creative counter-inscription device, working both to complicate identity development models that limit subjectivity to human consciousness and agency, and to illustrate a more expansive, somatically attuned, and materially-entangled set of practices and productions of young adult identity work’s work and its study.

scholarly journals How do adult twins experience and view their identity?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 16-30
Author(s):  
Madhuri Fichtmüller
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Ego Development ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Intuitive Inquiry ◽  
Transpersonal Development ◽  
Adult Identity ◽  
Adult Twins ◽  
Participant Perspectives

Adult identity formation and individuation have been well documented in psychological and world spiritual literature. Identity and individuation differ for twins because of their physiological and psychological connection. Although the literature has to some extent explored twin identity at prepersonal and personal stages of ego development, little research literature exists which looks to unravel transpersonal phases of twins’ individuation. With a focus on transpersonal development, this research used intuitive inquiry to investigate “How adult twins experience and view their identity.” Individual twins derived from a single ovum (monozygotic) and from two separate ova (dizygotic), were interviewed to understand their personal experience of their identity development. The researcher’s own experience of twin identity was reported through embodied writing and poetry. Results allowed for the formation of an emerging model of Twin Identity Development, which outlined a possible trajectory for twin identity development, introducing the transpersonal as a connecting thread between the prepersonal and personal twin identity. Participant perspectives on identity development indicated the possibility for twins to embrace both an individual and a joint identity and in some cases, transcend both. Embracing all aspects of both identities created a sense of wholeness for twins. Further investigation into different twin identities and parenting of twins could validate the research.

scholarly journals Voice and Silence in Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. BB102-BB118
Author(s):  
Helma Van Lierop-Debrauwer
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Voice And Silence

In 2014, the American writer Jacqueline Woodson published Brown Girl Dreaming, the story of her childhood in free verse, which was classified as young adult literature. Most US reviewers characterized and appreciated the book both as a human rights narrative of a young brown girl’s coming of age against the socio-political background of racism and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of the 1960s, and as a personal history of her development as a writer. In this article the major focus will be on how Brown Girl Dreaming as both a political memoir and an autobiographical narrative of identity formation is fleshed out. On the basis of my analysis of these two plot lines, I will further argue that its categorization as young adult literature disguises that the novel addresses a dual audience of adult and young readers. In my argumentation related to the political and personal character of the novel, as well as in my discussion of the crossover potential of Brown Girl Dreaming, I will focus on the presence of voice and silence.

Identity in life narratives

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary S. Gregg
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Structure Model ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Tonal Music ◽  
Story Structure ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Generative Theory ◽  
Identity Based

In the spirit of Jerome Bruner’s call for the study of individuals’ appropriation of cultural meanings, this paper outlines a “generative” theory of identity based on study-of-lives interviews conducted with young adult Americans and Moroccans. This theory holds that multiple self-representations tend to be integrated by structurally-ambiguous key symbols and metaphors whose meanings can change via figure-ground like shifts in the salience of their features — and that identity-formation employs some of the same cognitive structures as tonal music to organize personal meanings. This “generative” theory of multiple identities complements McAdams’ story structure model and Hermans’ dialogical model.

scholarly journals Adolescent Family Context and Adult Identity Formation

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 1265-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janel E. Benson ◽  
Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Adult Identity

Young Adult Daughters of Lesbian Mothers Speak: A Qualitative Study on Identity Formation

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 465-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia K. Padovano-Janik ◽  
Virginia M. Brabender ◽  
Philip A. Rutter
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Adult Daughters ◽  
Lesbian Mothers

Self-identity of young people leaving state care

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyuan Shang ◽  
Karen R. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young People ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Care Approach

This chapter analyzes the self-identity, with reference to social inclusion, of the young people in care in their transition to adulthood and the possibility of independent living. It focuses on how the various aspects of social inclusion during childhood and young adult years might affect their identity. In addition to the usual dynamic identity formation of teenagers, young people leaving care also negotiate the shedding of an identity as someone in the care of the state and the acquiring of an identity as an independent young adult. These processes have important policy implications because they imply that transition to independence of children in state care requires a care approach and environment that are supportive to positive identity formation during childhood and adolescence.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document