Political, Religious and Occupational Identities in Context: Placing Identity Status Paradigm in Context

Autor/inn/en	Solomontos-Kountouri, Olga; Hurry, Jane
Titel	Political, Religious and Occupational Identities in Context: Placing Identity Status Paradigm in Context
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 31 (2008) 2, S.241-258 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2007.11.006
Schlagwörter	Self Concept; Ethnicity; Student Attitudes; Adolescents; Developmental Stages; Religion; Political Influences; Case Studies; Surveys; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Socioeconomic Status; Measures (Individuals); Context Effect; Gender Differences; Cyprus + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstkonzept; Ethnizität; Schülerverhalten; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Messdaten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Zypern
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 macro-context 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. (Author).
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