[Identity status in the transition from adolescence to young adulthood: an empirical comparative study of psychiatric patients and healthy control probands].
The identity concept of Erikson has been operationalised by Marcia. Its basic dimensions are the exploration of possible alternatives in the various areas of psychosocial life and the commitment to personal solutions. Accordingly four status of identity are differentiated: identity achievement, foreclosure of identity, moratorium, identity diffusion. Patients and controls hold a similar position regarding identity achievement, but controls more decisively reject the remaining identity statuses thereby reaching an identity profile of higher maturity. Both groups show a strong endeaver not to solve the issues of identity by mere assimilation of extern role patterns via their parents. Among non-psychotic patients compared to psychotic patients this very endeaver is more pronounced. Patients with affective disorders show a comparably mature profile of identity. Among schizophrenic patients those with a disorganized type seem to indicate that they are lest able to invest the logic of identity formation by exploration and commitment or cannot even understand it. The subjective measures in relation to identity status are opposed to a list of events indicating an "adolescent crisis" in the developing years from puberty to late adolescence for patient and control group.
Psychiatrische Klinik, Universität München.
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D000184:Acting Out; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment
Identitätsstatus im Ubergang von Jugend und jungem Erwachsenenalter: Eine empirische Vergleichsstudie bei psychiatrischen Patienten und gesunden Kontrollprobanden.