title: A preliminary study of proposed levels of relatedness in identity exploration among female late adolescents in Japan.
abstract: This study examined features of identity exploration among late adolescent Japanese girls from the viewpoint of relatedness. The expanded Ego Identity Interview was administered to 33 female university students. Five levels of relatedness were formulated in a sequence from exploration without relatedness to exploration with disagreements between one's own and others' perspectives. The results support the current view of researchers emphasizing relational aspects of identity and provide detailed features of the identity formation process from the viewpoint of relatedness among late adolescent girls in Japan.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanics, Otemon Gakuin University, 2-1-15 Nishiai, Ibaraki-city, Osaka 567-8502, Japan. sugimura@res.otemon.ac.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimura
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007063:Identity Crisis; D007207:Individuation; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007564:Japan; D010555:Personality Inventory; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012933:Social Identification