scholarly journals Aesthetic Experience Anchors Ego Identity Formation

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2596
Author(s):  
Chi-Ying Yu ◽  
Po-Ching Wang
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Long Run

The development of a coherent identity status, also referred to as ego identity, is critical during adolescence and early-adulthood. In the long run, an individual’s ego identity status may influence the sustainability of his or her well-being. Researchers have attempted to discover the predictors or factors correlated with one’s identity status. In that search, aesthetic experience, as a unique means of knowing oneself and the world, seemed to be overlooked. Philosophical and psychological discourses have asserted that aesthetic experience stimulated identity discovery and formation; this hypothesis, however, is not supported by strong quantitative evidence. Thus, an empirical study with a quantitative approach was conducted to examine whether those who have frequent aesthetic experiences are more likely to possess a mature ego identity. A sample of 758 valid questionnaires was collected. The results supported the argument that aesthetic experience favors the development of ego identity. In addition, this study revealed that sociodemographic backgrounds such as women, fine arts and design majors, and religious individuals were more likely to have a rich aesthetic life. The results imply that aesthetic experience serves as a crucial aspect that contributes to the wellness of personality development and promotes a healthy and sustainable quality of life.

scholarly journals Subjective Well-Being and Religious Ego Identity Development in Conservative Christian University Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-86
Author(s):  
Angela Watson ◽  
Emily Goodwin ◽  
Claire Michael
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Christian University

Spiritual maturity greatly impacts psychosocial development (Bravo, Pearson, & Stevens, 2016; Dreyer & Dreyer, 2012; Power & McKinney, 2014). Much of the identity formation process occurs during adolescence and early adulthood (Good & Willoughby, 2014; Hardy et al., 2011). The current study sampled students from a private Christian university to examine the relationship between religious ego identity status and subjective well-being. Positive relationships were found between religious ego identity and subjective well-being. Discussion includes the unique developmental needs of emerging adults to help Christian universities better facilitate their students’ growth and education.

Identity Formation and Moral Development in Emerging Adulthood

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Lapsley ◽  
Sam A. Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Personal Formation

We argue in this chapter that moral development and identity formation are not disjunctive topics, and that morality and identity ramify in the personal formation of emerging adults in ways that have dispositional implications for how the rest of their lives go. Moral self-identity is crucial to living a life of purpose and for setting one’s life projects on a pathway that contributes to well-being, generativity, and integrity. We first review research on the role of moral purpose in personality development and the conditions that encourage it. We then review the major ways that self-identity has been conceptualized in terms of statuses, processes, and narratives, with particular emphasis on the achievement of identity maturity and its contribution to successful adaptation. We then discuss moral self-identity more directly and outline gaps in the literature and possible lines of future research.

Ego Identity Status and Family Environment: A Correlational Study

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1203-1212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor W. Willemsen ◽  
Kristin K. Waterman
Keyword(s):  
Family Functioning ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Women's Identity ◽  
Ego Identity Status ◽  
Identity Achievement ◽  
The Relationship

The study reported here investigated the relationship between individuals' perceptions of their families' functioning and of their own emerging identity. Individuation from the parents is closely intertwined with identity formation; families supportive of young people's separation and individuation more often have identity-achieved young people. 83 college students responded to an assessment of their perceptions of their families in 10 areas related to goals, separateness of family members, and over-all functioning. They also responded to the Extended Version of the Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status of Bennion and Adams. Correlations among family dimensions and the identity status scales indicate family factors were related to identity status in the following ways: Little conflict predicted the foreclosure identity status for both sexes. Identity achievement is related to aspects of family functioning differently for the two sexes. Indeed, gender-related aspects of family functioning best predict identity status. Valuing independence and achievements predicts men's identity achievement and emotional expression predicts women's identity achievement. Lack of family integration is related to the diffusion status in both sexes.

Ego identity status research in the new millennium

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Kroger
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Late Adolescents ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personality Correlates ◽  
Ego Identity Status ◽  
New Millennium

The present brief report overviews developments in the field of ego identity status research over the past 35 years and suggests directions for identity status research as we enter the new millenium. In the mid 1960s, James Marcia (1966, 1967) expanded Erik Erikson’s (1968) concept of ego identity to suggest four qualitatively different styles by which late adolescents undertake identity-deifning psychosocial commitments. Over the ensuing decades, identity status research focused primarily on validating the identity statuses and finding associated personality correlates, examining patterns of change over time, and investigating familial communication patterns associated with each of the identity positions. Research in the new millennium might fruitfully address the course and contents of identity beyond late adolescence as well as predictors of developmental arrest. A greater range of developmental contexts in which identity formation occurs is also in need of examination. Ultimately, an individual’s interpretation of context and further mediating events that may be associated with identity status resolutions are critical to a more complete understanding of the identity formation process.

Identity status and emotion regulation in adolescence and early adulthood

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paweł Jankowski
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Upper Secondary

Abstract The article presents the results of a study investigating the links between emotion regulation and identity. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between the two variables. On the basis of neo-eriksonian theories, an attempt to specify the role of emotion regulation in the process of identity formation was made. The study involved 849 people (544 women, 304 men) aged 14-25. The participants attended six types of schools: lower secondary school, basic vocational school, technical upper secondary school, general upper secondary school, post-secondary school, and university. The research was conducted with the use of two questionnaires: Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and Dimensions of Identity Development Scale (DIDS). The analysis of the results points to a partial confirmation of the assumed hypotheses about the differences between people with different identity statuses in respect of the six investigated dimensions of emotion regulation. Also, the hypotheses about the links between the dimensions of emotion regulation and dimensions of identity in the subgroups with different identity statuses were partially confirmed.

scholarly journals TAPATUMO BŪVIŲ IR SOCIALINĖS ADAPTACIJOS MOKYKLOJE RODIKLIŲ RYŠYS

Psichologija ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 54-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Visvaldas Legkauskas
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Predictive Validation

XX amžiaus pabaigoje tapatumo problematika socialinių mokslų literatūroje labai plačiai nagrinėjama. Užtenka pažvelgti į psichologijos literatūros šaltinių duomenų bazes PsychLit arba PsychInfo, kad įsitikintume, jog labai nedaugelis sąvokų paskutinio XX amžiaus dešimtmečio psichologijos literatūroje pasitaiko dažniau nei sąvoka identity. Tai nestebina - vis greitėjantys pokyčiai, vis mažėjantis pasaulis nepaliaujamai aštrina pagrindinį identiteto klausimą - "Kas aš esu?"Iš lietuvių psichologų pirmasis šią problematiką ėmė nagrinėti ilgus metus JAV dirbęs ir gyvenęs Pikūnas (1990, 1994; Pikūnas ir Palujanskienė, 2000), tačiau pastaraisiais metais pasirodė ir daugiau darbų šia tema (Antinienė, 1999; Vaičiulienė, 1999a, 1999b). Lietuviai psichologai, atlikdami tapatumo problematikos tyrinėjimus, remiasi Eriko Eriksono (1968) teorija ir James Marcia (1967, 1966, 1980; Marcia, Waterman, Matteson, Archer ir Orlofsky, 1993) sukurta ego identiteto būvių paradigma. RELATION SHIPS AMONG IDENTITY STATUSES AND SOCIAL ADAPTATION AT SCHOOL INDICES Visvaldas Lekauskas Summary Research report on relationship between ego identity and aspects of social functioning at school is presented. Subjects were 110 Lithuanian 12-th graders, 46 male and 64 female. For the assessment of identity status the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status, final revision (EOMEIS-2) developed by Adams, Bennion, and Huh (1989) was translated into Lithuanian language. Self-report Subjective Social Well-Being Scale and Problem Behavior Scale completed by teachers, as well as popularity in class, served as functioning in school indices and also as a criteria for predictive validation of the EOMEIS-2. EOMEIS showed satisfactory reliability and construct and criterion validity. Ideological moratoriums were more popular than ideological achievers. Interpersonally committed statuses had better subjective social adaptation than interpersonally non-committed statuses. Interpersonal diffusions and foreclosures displayed less problem behaviors than interpersonal moratoriums and achievers.

A Statistical Portrait of Well-being in Early Adulthood

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett V. Brown ◽  
Kristin A. Moore ◽  
Sharon Bzostek
Keyword(s):  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Well Being
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