scholarly journals Ego Identity Status of Medical Students in Clerkship

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e4-e10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Beran ◽  
Kent Hecker ◽  
Sylvain Coderre ◽  
Bruce Wright ◽  
Wayne Woloschuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Parental Influence ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Ego Identity Status ◽  
Career Options

Background: Medical students encounter a variety of experiences that have an impact on their emerging professional identity. Clerkship, in particular, presents opportunities for students to consider their career options and decide upon a career path. The process of developing their professional identity begins well before clerkship, however. Anecdotal evidence suggests that interests in medicine begin as early as childhood. This study retrospectively examines the decision-making process clerks make in choosing medicine as a career.Methods: A total of 76 clerks (36 male, 34 female, 6 not reported) responded to four open-ended and two follow-up questions that measure career interests and pursuits. Questions addressed when and how students developed interests in medicine and alternate careers before beginning medical school. An additional eight closed questions drawn from the Ego Status Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status II (EOM-EIS-II) were administered. Content analyses and inter-rater reliability analyses were conducted to classify students according to Marcia’s1  four ego identity statuses.Results: Having obtained high inter-rater consistency (Cohen’s Kappa coefficient of 0.92), responses to the open-ended questions resulted in the classification of three identity statuses. In total, 49.3% of students were in the ‘achieved’ (high exploration and commitment to choices) status and 48.1% were in the ‘foreclosed’ (low exploration but high commitment to choices) status. A small percentage (1.3%) of students were in the ‘moratorium’category (high exploration but low commitment to choices), while none of the students were in the ‘diffused’ (low exploration and low commitment to choices) category.Conclusions: With approximately half of the students demonstrating a ‘foreclosed’ status, this study reveals that despite exposure to a variety of careers when attending university, only half of the students had seriously pursued a career outside of medicine. The majority of students, moreover, developed an interest in medicine before adulthood, and did so independently from parental influence.

scholarly journals The relationships between self-esteem and Ego-identity development

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Jelena Tovarović
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Ego Identity Status ◽  
The Impact

Identity and self-esteem are important concepts in the development and understanding of individual's self-perception. Perceptions and opinions of significant others influence the construction of adolescents' representations of self and the formation of identity, which, in turn, can be a strong predictor of self-esteem. The significance of our research is reflected in the examination of subjective choices and commitment to roles, values and goals in the domains of religion, occupation, politics and relationships, which can all affect self-esteem. Hence, this paper aims to examine the relationship between identity and self-esteem, more precisely, the impact of identity on self-esteem. The study involved 487 adolescents who completed two questionnaires: the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status (EOMEIS-2), which contains four statuses: Achievement, Foreclosure, Diffusion identity and Moratorium, and the Self-Liking Self-Competence Scale (SLSC) used for the assessment of self-esteem, consisting of two dimensions: Self-liking and Self-competence. Correlation analysis of four identity statuses and two dimensions of self-esteem showed a positive correlation of Self-competence and Self-liking with Achievement identity, and a negative correlation of the two dimensions of self-esteem with the Foreclosure, Diffusion identity and Moratorium. In order to analyze the influence of identity on self-esteem in more detail, a regression analysis was performed. When it comes to the dimensions of Self-competence and Self-liking, the most significant predictor is Achievement identity, while Moratorium and Foreclosure identity are less impactful predictors, with a negative sign. The results are interpreted in terms of the influence of identity on the level of self-esteem, as well as the importance of support from others, such as parents and peers. Finally, we provide guidelines for further research of the connection between identity, self-esteem and other concepts which play a significant role in the process of developing the concept of self.

Self-efficacy and identity statuses in students of Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-109
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hassan Asayesh ◽  
Mohsen Vakili
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Training Centre ◽  
Statistical Population ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Ego Identity Status ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of the present study is to analyse the relationship between identity status and self-efficacy. The statistical population included all graduate students employed at the Training Centre of Ayatollah Khatami in the city of Yazd in 2009. The sample consisted of 122 students who were selected by convenience sampling. The chosen research method is descriptive correlational. Bennion and Adams’ Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status and the Self-Efficacy Scale were used for measuring the identity statuses and self-efficacy. The results of this study show that there is a positive significant relationship between achieved identity status, self-efficacy (p < 0.01) and diffused identity; there is a negative significant relationship between diffused identity status and self-efficacy (p < 0.05); and there is a negative significant relationship between foreclosure identity status and self-efficacy (p < 0.01). According to this study, for providing qualified forces, the training centres can employ forces by detecting identity statuses and self-efficacy of volunteers.   Keywords: Identity, identity status, students, self-efficacy.

scholarly journals Construction of a religious identity status questionnaire

Psihologija ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-220
Author(s):  
Irena Stojkovic ◽  
Sanja Dimoski ◽  
Jovan Miric
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Item Pool ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Ego Identity Status ◽  
Initial Item

This study presents a construction and psychometric evaluation of the Religious Identity Status Questionnaire ? RISQ for the assessment of the religious identity status according to Marcia?s ego identity status approach. The initial item pool was generated based on Erikson?s theory of psychosocial development, Marcia?s ego identity status approach and interviews with adolescents and young adults. A factor analysis of the initial item pool was performed on data obtained from a sample of 394 secondary school and university students from Serbia to select items for the questionnaire. Validity of the questionnaire was examined on a sample of 1155 subjects. The results of the CFA suggest that subscales of the RISQ measure four factors corresponding to the identity statuses of Marcia?s model. Correlations with ideological identity subscales of the EOM?EIS?2 suggest the convergent validity of the questionnaire. Configural measurement invariance was established for gender and denominational groups. Metric invariance was established for gender and among orthodox and catholic participants, whereas scalar invariance was established for gender, but not for denominational groups.

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.

scholarly journals Assessing Cultural Invariance of the Extended Objective Measure of Ego-Identity Status (EOM-EIS) Questionnaire

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Sean A. Forbes ◽  
A.J. Guarino
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Academic Major ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Ego Identity Status ◽  
Chi Squared

<p><em>The purpose of this study was to assess the cultural invariance of the Extended Objective Measure of Ego-Identity Status (EOM-EIS) Questionnaire across three ethnic groups (African-Americans, Caucasians, and Latinos). </em></p> <p><em>The total sample consisted of 289 undergraduate</em><em>s</em><em> from a comprehensive doctoral university in the Southeastern United States. Results of the chi-squared test of goodness-of-fit indicated that the sample reflected the university’s student body proportionally by gender, ethnicity, and academic major. To assess if the factor structure of the EOM-EIS operated equivalently across the three ethnic groups, a multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was conducted. Results indicated that EOM-EIS </em><em>was</em><em> invariant across the ethnic groups. </em></p>

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