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Identity status among young adults: Validation of the Dimensions of Identity Development Scale (DIDS) in a Finnish sample

Identity status among young adults: Validation of the Dimensions of Identity Development Scale... AbstractTheory and empirical findings suggest that sociohistorical changes have made identity formation a precarious developmental process in contemporary Western societies. Firm commitments may be delayed until the late twenties or discarded altogether. We tested the reliability and factorial validity of a recently developed five-dimensional process model of identity development – Dimensions of Identity Development Scale – in order to evaluate identity formation among Finnish young adults (N = 751, Mage = 24.6, 60.3% women) in a cross-cultural perspective. Results showed that the hypothesized five-factor model could not be confirmed as such. Instead a six-factor model, encountered only recently in two other studies, suited the sample data better. All six identity dimensions were internally and externally correlated as hypothesized and the identity status cluster solution that emerged matched previous results with one exception. Further, the surprisingly high prevalence of diffused and uncertain individuals in our sample may indicate effects of sociohistorical factors specific to a Finnish cultural context. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nordic Psychology Taylor & Francis

Identity status among young adults: Validation of the Dimensions of Identity Development Scale (DIDS) in a Finnish sample

Identity status among young adults: Validation of the Dimensions of Identity Development Scale (DIDS) in a Finnish sample

Nordic Psychology , Volume 69 (3): 19 – Jul 3, 2017

Abstract

AbstractTheory and empirical findings suggest that sociohistorical changes have made identity formation a precarious developmental process in contemporary Western societies. Firm commitments may be delayed until the late twenties or discarded altogether. We tested the reliability and factorial validity of a recently developed five-dimensional process model of identity development – Dimensions of Identity Development Scale – in order to evaluate identity formation among Finnish young adults (N = 751, Mage = 24.6, 60.3% women) in a cross-cultural perspective. Results showed that the hypothesized five-factor model could not be confirmed as such. Instead a six-factor model, encountered only recently in two other studies, suited the sample data better. All six identity dimensions were internally and externally correlated as hypothesized and the identity status cluster solution that emerged matched previous results with one exception. Further, the surprisingly high prevalence of diffused and uncertain individuals in our sample may indicate effects of sociohistorical factors specific to a Finnish cultural context.

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Taylor & Francis
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© 2016 The Editors of Nordic Psychology
ISSN
1904-0016
eISSN
1901-2276
DOI
10.1080/19012276.2016.1245156
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Abstract

AbstractTheory and empirical findings suggest that sociohistorical changes have made identity formation a precarious developmental process in contemporary Western societies. Firm commitments may be delayed until the late twenties or discarded altogether. We tested the reliability and factorial validity of a recently developed five-dimensional process model of identity development – Dimensions of Identity Development Scale – in order to evaluate identity formation among Finnish young adults (N = 751, Mage = 24.6, 60.3% women) in a cross-cultural perspective. Results showed that the hypothesized five-factor model could not be confirmed as such. Instead a six-factor model, encountered only recently in two other studies, suited the sample data better. All six identity dimensions were internally and externally correlated as hypothesized and the identity status cluster solution that emerged matched previous results with one exception. Further, the surprisingly high prevalence of diffused and uncertain individuals in our sample may indicate effects of sociohistorical factors specific to a Finnish cultural context.

Journal

Nordic PsychologyTaylor & Francis

Published: Jul 3, 2017

Keywords: identity status; carefree identity diffusion; ruminative exploration; the Dimensions of Identity Development Scale

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