Identity status and personal construct systems.
The relationship between identity status and the structural features of an individual's personal construct system or self-theory was investigated. Personal constructs relevant to 10 contemporaneous roles (myself as a friend, student, son/daughter, and so on) were elicited from 75 late adolescents who also completed an identity-status measure. Correlational analyses between identity-status scores and structural features of the self-system revealed a theoretically interpretable pattern of interrelationships. The implications of these findings for future research is considered.
Berzonsky
M D
MD
Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Cortland 13045.
Neimeyer
G J
GJ
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D010556:Personality Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D012380:Role