title: Determinants of adolescent identity development: a cross-sequential study of boarding school boys.
abstract: A sociometric measure of identity status was developed based on Marcia's (1966) four ordinal levels of ego identity achievement: Identity Achievement, Moratorium, Foreclosure, and Diffusion. Boarding school adolescent boys (N = 197) rated their dormitory mates on each dimension twice with an interval of six months. Results indicate age differences in identity status for young adolescents, identity development associated with time, and a strong relation between adolescent behavior problems and levels of identity status. Efforts to relate identity status to child-rearing values, social problem-solving, stress, health concerns, and independence were inconclusive.
authors.affiliation: Family Counselling Center, Fairfax, VA.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Wires
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Barocas
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Hollenbeck
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015331:Cohort Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D011340:Problem Solving; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012649:Self Concept; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology