Lorenzen, Lilly (2022) Which Identity Content Domains Do Young Adult Men Use to Construct Identity Within Everyday Interactions? Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
A comprehensive understanding of identity development requires examination of both, processes and content of identity. Still, the concept of identity content has received comparably little research attention. At the social interaction level, identity content is expressed in individuals’ claims about themselves, which have traditionally been investigated in terms of assignment to different content domains. By analyzing speed dating conversations of 16 same-sex attracted, young adult men, the present qualitative study aimed at informing which identity content domains were most salient in young adult men’s everyday conversations. For this purpose, from a larger dataset on nine speed dating events, audio transcribed data from two of the events were selected for the present study. Upon extraction, identity claims were deductively assigned into content domains. The preliminary analysis was concerned with the group-level prevalence of domains among speakers’ identity claims. An additional visual exploratory analysis at the participant level was conducted to investigate patterns of mutual influence in interlocutors’ number of dating claims expressed. Results indicated a salience of young adults for construction of identity within ideological, specifically Personal and Education/Occupation domains, while interpersonal domains were infrequently used. Results from the visual exploratory analysis of dating claims indicated that a high disclosure of dating related information by either partner was usually embedded in conversations in which both partner disclosed dating claims. Overall, results are argued to point towards a conversational context-specifity of identity content, which future research should further explore by addressing identity content within differing conversational contexts. Keywords: identity content, identity claims, content domains, everyday conversations, patterns, young adults, speed dating
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Gmelin, J.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2022 07:50 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2022 07:50 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1178 |
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