Heek, Collin van (2023) Identity configuration and identity content: patterns in domains of life represented in emerging adults’ identity configurations. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
During emerging adulthood, integrating conflicting parts of one’s identity into a coherent identity configuration is a central psychosocial task. This study aims to explore what content makes up the identity configurations of emerging adults, and how these contents may occur together in interpersonal patterns. Therefore, our research question was as follows: What types of patterns are visible in the content of emerging adults’ identity configurations? Self-descriptions of 54 first-year psychology students from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen were coded according to the IMICA manual, and their identity configurations were visualised in a spider graph, which showed the distribution of their identity claims over 10 domains of identity. Through visual analysis of these graphs, five types of patterns were identified, based on the most commonly occuring domains within each participant. These types were the Recreation type, the Personal type, the Education/occupation type, the Relational type and the Double-peak type. This suggests that the content of identity configurations is not fully idiosyncratic, and might instead show interpersonal patterns. In addition, it gives some insights into what domains might be important in the identity configurations of emerging adults. More research is needed to explore if these findings apply to the general population.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Gmelin, J.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 08 May 2023 08:47 |
| Last Modified: | 08 May 2023 08:47 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1939 |
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