Identity Status, Gender, and Social Comparison among Young Adults

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanny Gyberg ◽  
Ann Frisén
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Global Identity ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Social Comparison Orientation ◽  
And Diffusion

The aim of this study was to investigate identity status globally and across identity domains among young Swedish adult women and men. Also, potential differences in social comparison between identity statuses were evaluated. The results showed that most of the 124 participants (50% women, Mage 33.29 years) were assigned to an achieved global identity and had made identity-defining commitments across domains. Gender differences in identity status were found in the occupational and parenthood domains. In addition, differences in social comparison orientation were found only in the parenthood domain, whereas those assigned to moratorium scored higher in social comparison than did those assigned to foreclosure and diffusion. These results bring important knowledge to our understanding of identity during young adulthood.

scholarly journals Pán Péterek? - avagy létezik-e kapunyítási pánik a szakképzésből kikerülő fiataloknál - egy vizsgálat utóélete

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kricsfalusi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Peter Pan ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Avoidance Strategy ◽  
Key Questions

A tanulmány a Pán Péter Szindrómát, valamint a Kapunyitási Pánikot, az utóbbi évtized közkedvelt kifejezéseit és jelenségeit vizsgálja a felnőttkorba lépő, szakképzésből kikerülő fiatalok körében. Központi kérdései: Miért alakulhatott ki? Miért most? Létezik e valóban, vagy csak az elkerülési stratégiák egyik válfajáról van szó? Milyen jelenségek együttese okozza a kialakulását? Vannak- e életkori sajátosságok, amik hajlamosító tényezőkké válhatnak? Vannak-e nemi különbségek a jelenség megjelenésénél? A kérdések megválaszolásával próbálom igazolni, hogy Pán Péter szindróma helyett inkább egy speciális, életciklus váltás okozta krízis állapotról beszélhetünk. Kulcsszavak: Pán Péter szindróma, kapunyitási pánik, krízisállapot, quaterlife crisis, fiatalok, posztadoleszcencia, emerging adulthood, korszakváltás, identitás státusz, szorongás, elkerülési stratégia, depresszió Diszciplina: pszichológia, szociológia, neveléstudomány The study examines the Peter Pan Syndrome and the Quarterlife Crisis, two well-known phenomena which occur among young adults finishing their vocational training.The key questions are: Why do they happen? Why at this time? Do they really exist or are they just some types of avoidance strategies? What circumstances cause their emergence? Are there any age-related factors that may predispose their occurrence? Are there any gender differences in their appearance?Answering these questions I have come to the conclusion that instead of the Peter Pan Syndrome what we face is rather a special state of crisis caused by the life cycle transition. Keywords: Peter Pan Syndrome, quaterlife crisis, crisis status, young adults, post-adolescent, emerging adulthood, identity status, anxiety, avoidance strategy, depressionDisciplines: psychology, sociology, pedagogy

Correlates Contributing to Involvement in Violent Behaviors Among Young Adults

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Williams ◽  
Richard A. Van Dorn ◽  
J. David Hawkins ◽  
Robert Abbott ◽  
Richard F. Catalano
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Preventive Intervention ◽  
Violent Behavior ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Antisocial Behaviors ◽  
Prevention Study ◽  
Environmental Correlates ◽  
Violent Behaviors

The study examines the extent to which gender, personality attributes, household, community, and environmental factors are associated with violent behaviors in young adulthood. The authors present findings from a sample of 765 21-year-old individuals participating in a drug and delinquency prevention study. Personality attributes, opportunities, and social acceptability of antisocial behaviors were identified as accounting for gender differences and having more influence on violent behavior than environmental correlates. Implications for preventive intervention are discussed.

Identity Status, Gender, and Social Comparison Among Young Adults

Identity ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanny Gyberg ◽  
Ann Frisén
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Identity Status

scholarly journals Przywiązanie, parentyfikacja i trauma relacyjna a status tożsamości w okresie wyłaniającej się dorosłości

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-239
Author(s):  
Jakub Róg-Mazurek
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Diffuse Type ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Relational Trauma ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Guardian

Nowadays, it is young adults, not adolescents, who face the challenge of determining their own identity. This process, compared to previous generations, takes place in qualitatively different conditions. Moreover, the current attributes of an adult have become obsolete. For this reason, making the vision of oneself reality may be associated with various difficulties. The root of the failure to clarify identity is to be found in the original bond with the guardian and in all experiences that disrupt attachment. Among these types of experiences, relational trauma and parentification are worth mentioning. Relational trauma can be said to be when a child experiences repeated neglect in the context of a close relationship. A similar phenomenon is parentification.The aim of the research is to check 1) whether there are significant differences between the identified identity statuses and 2) whether the variables (attachment style, experience of parentification and relational trauma) differentiate the identity status in the period of emergingadulthood. Three identity statuses are distinguished: Identity of anxiety type (N = 23), identity of diffuse type (N = 30) and identity of type achieved (N = 43). Each type differs in terms of both the experiences and the severity of the identity dimensions.

Does substance use play a role in gender differences in residential independence and returns to the parental home?

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cody Warner ◽  
Emily Cady
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Adolescent Females ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood ◽  
Home Leaving

Young adults are co-residing with their parents at higher rates now than in the past, and recent research has explored the correlates of both leaving and subsequently returning to the parental home. Of relevance here, females tend to leave home earlier than their male counterparts, and research finds that drinking and drug use are also linked to residential transitions. This research note explores if substance use during adolescence and young adulthood plays a role in gender differences in home-leaving and home-returning. We find that marijuana use plays a role in both home-leaving and home-returning, with adolescent females who use marijuana the most at risk for early exits from home, and marijuana using males the most at risk for home-returning.

Concurring patterns of women’s identity status, attachment styles, and understanding of children’s development

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne L. MacKinnon ◽  
James E. Marcia
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Identity Diffusion ◽  
Identity Achievement ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development

A total of 96 mothers of preschool children participated in a study examining the relationships among identity status and the variables of family attachment style and understanding of children’s development. Results indicated that women in the committed identity statuses of identity achievement and, contrary to expectation, foreclosure, were highest in secure attachment. Fearful attachment predominated among the uncommitted identity statuses of moratorium and identity diffusion. Achievement women were the highest and diffusion women lowest in their understanding of children’s development. Examination of attachment styles as categorical variables, for achievements and foreclosures, revealed two different patterns within each status: secure and insecure. When achievements and foreclosures were grouped according to their attachment classifications and their perspectivistic scores analysed, achieved-insecure women had relatively high perspectivistic scores (in fact, the highest among the statuses) and foreclosed-insecure women had relatively low ones (almost as low as diffuse women). These results suggest that there may be two distinct patterns of both foreclosure and achievement for adult women.

scholarly journals Internet Use, Identity Development and Social Anxiety Among Young Adults

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Mazalin ◽  
Susan Moore
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Developmental Phase ◽  
Identity Statuses

AbstractContradictory evidence exists regarding the benefit of the Internet for social and personal wellbeing, with some studies indicating deleterious effects and others possible social enrichment. The potential for increased social isolation from ‘overinvolvement’ in online activities or, conversely, the Internet's possibilities for enhancing social relationships, may be particularly salient during young adulthood and adolescence because of the special importance of the peer group during this developmental phase. This study was an investigation of the relationships between the levels of identity development, Internet use and social anxiety among a sample of 161 older adolescents/young adults aged between 18 and 25. Results indicated that, for males only, higher levels of social anxiety and less mature identity statuses were associated with more frequent Internet use, specifically time spent in chatrooms, online browsing for personal use, and games. For females (who were in this sample less socially anxious, more identity-developed, and lower users of the Internet than males), social anxiety and identity status were not significantly associated with time spent online. Discussion centred around the potential roles of Internet use in reinforcing already-existing social anxiety or, alternatively, in supporting and maintaining social contacts in those with lower levels of social deficit.

On the question of an identity status category order: Rasch model step and scale statistics used to identify category order

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amjed Al-Owidha ◽  
Kathy E. Green ◽  
Jane Kroger
Keyword(s):  
Rasch Model ◽  
Ego Development ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Optimal Order ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
General Support ◽  
And Diffusion

The question of whether or not a developmental continuum underlies James Marcia's identity statuses has been a topic of debate among identity researchers for nearly 20 years. This study addressed the prefatory question of whether the identity statuses can be empirically ordered in a theoretically optimal way. This question was addressed via use of Rasch model threshold and scale statistics, which effectively differentiated empirically optimal from suboptimal category orders. All permutations of Marcia's 4 identity statuses were generated in relation to stages from Loevinger's model of ego development and Kegan's model of self—other differentiation. The optimal identity status order found was diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, to achievement in 2 sets of analyses, and diffusion combined with foreclosure to moratorium, to achievement in 2 additional sets of analyses. The order diffusion, foreclosure, achievement, to moratorium performed nearly as well in one set of analyses. Results, in general, support the theoretically optimal category order. Rasch model threshold and scale statistics can be effectively applied to place categories into an empirically optimal order or to assess the match between theoretical and empirical category orders.

Me, Myself, and Mobility: The Relevance of Region for Young Adults‘ Identity Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Schubach ◽  
Julia Zimmermann ◽  
Peter Noack ◽  
Franz J. Neyer
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
World Region ◽  
Dimensional Identity ◽  
Latent Profile

As residential mobility is a common life event that particularly affects young adults, regional identity may be relevant for young adults. We therefore extended the three–dimensional identity model to the regional domain. The development of regional identity was studied using a prospective design over six months with a sample of 1,795 post–secondary graduates (71% female, mean age of 24.54 years), containing both movers and non–movers. Latent profile analyses and latent profile transition analyses revealed three main findings: First, solutions with four regional identity statuses—moratorium, searching moratorium, closure, and achievement—were found to be most interpretable. Second, the emergent statuses differed substantially in terms of Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction, as well as with moving experience. Third, the stability of identity status membership across a period of six months was highest for the non–movers group. Comparatively less stability across time was found for the movers, underscoring the relevance of transitions for identity development. Taken together, these findings show that even in a mobile world, region matters in identity development. Copyright © 2016 European Association of Personality Psychology

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