Kountouri, Olga Solomontos- and Hurry, Jane (2008) Political, religious and occupational identities in context: Placing identity status paradigm in context. Journal of Adolescence, 31 (2). pp. 241-258. ISSN 0140-1971
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Abstract
This study critically contrasts global identity with domain-specific identities (political, religious and occupational) and considers context and gender as integral parts of identity. In a cross-sectional survey, 1038 Greek Cypriot adolescents (449 boys and 589 girls, mean age 16.8) from the three different types of secondary schools (state, state technical and private) and from different SES completed part of the Extended Objective Measure of Ego-Identity Status-2 (EOMEIS-2). The macrocontext of Greek Cypriot society is used to understand the role of context in adolescents’ identities. Results showed that Greek Cypriot young people were not in the same statuses across their global, political, religious and occupational identities. This heterogeneity in the status of global identity and of each identity domain is partially explained by differences in gender, type of school and SES (Socio-Economic Status). The fact that identity status is found to be reactive to context suggests that developmental stage models of identity status should place greater emphasis on context.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Departments > Psychology and Human Development |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (2) |
| Date Deposited: | 18 May 2010 17:03 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:34 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/4845 |
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