This is a useful resource for personality theorists, educators, and developmentalists. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers.

- C. T. Fischer, CHOICE

The editors succeed in bringing together in a coherent manner aspects of identity assessment not often easily integrated in the existing literature.

- Leehu Zysberg, PsycCRITIQUES

Scientists from six countries, well known for their work in the field of identity research, explain and comment on methodological approaches used to research identity. This book concentrates on qualitative methods, such as narrative identity analysis or semi-structured interviewing techniques to determine identity status, as well as the quantitative method of using questionnaires. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these methods and their future integration. The reader will learn about qualitative and quantitative research and discover the similarities and differences between the methods of researching identity, depending on research with methodological roots in one field, the other, or both. Chapters include: _
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Scientists from six countries, well known for their work in the field of identity research, explain and comment on methodological approaches used to research identity.
Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 Theory and Measure: The Identity Status Interview Chapter 3 Assessing Identity as the Meaningfulness of Meanings—The Flensburg Identity Status Interview (FISI) Chapter 4 Designing the Long View: Lessons from a Qualitative Longitudinal Study on Identity Development Chapter 5 A Content Analysis of Narratives from a Categorical and Holistic Point of View to Study Changes after a Rite of Passage Chapter 6 Qualitative Research on "Adolescence, Identity, Narration:" Programmatic and Empirical Examples Chapter 7 Analyzing Identity Using a Voice Approach Chapter 8 Draw Your Life! Investigating Pictorial Representations of Life Courses Chapter 9 To Explore and to Commit: A German Version of the Utrecht-Groningen Identity Development Scale (U-GIDS) Chapter 10 Relationships with Parents and Identity in Adolescence: A Review of Twenty-five Years of Research Chapter 11 Well-diffused? Identity Diffusion and Well-being in Emerging Adulthood Chapter 12 Continuity, Change, and Mechanisms of Identity Development Chapter 13 Identity Formation: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Inquiry Chapter 14 Epilogue Part 15 Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780761837350
Publisert
2007-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University Press Of America
Vekt
313 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Biographical note

Meike Watzlawik is assistant professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, earned a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology (subject: sexual identity development). Her main research interests are identity development in adolescence and siblings, especially twins. Aristi Born is assistant professor at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany, earned a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology (subject: regulation of personal identity after German reunification). Her main research interests are identity development, as well as tasks and resources in emerging adulthood.