Commitment and Exploration

McLean, Kate C.; Syed, Moin; Kunnen, Saskia; Metz, Marijke

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“…Common to these approaches is the assumption that talk is not referential, but that it instead constitutes or performs action (e.g., Edwards & Potter, 1992). This focus might be understood as a direct antithesis to reflective or cognitive conceptualizations of identity that assume that identities become expressed or manifested as actions in the context of interactions (see e.g., Kunnen & Metz, 2015). Instead of considering identity as a primary determinant of action, social constructivist approaches consider identity itself as "a product of social interaction" (Breakwell, 1986, p. 43).…”

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“…As a consequence, we do not know whether a momentary identity claim enters a speaker's repertoire and will become relevant across developmental time (Thorne & Shapiro, 2011). Consequently, approaches to social interactions such as IMICA should be combined with research on long-term developmental outcomes such as identity status interviews (Kunnen & Metz, 2015). Despite its limitations in prediction, it is important to note that IMICA is able to capture local change and development as was highlighted in both worked examples.…”

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Iterative Micro-Identity Content Analysis: Studying Identity Development within and across Real-Time Interactions

Gmelin

Kunnen

2021

Identity

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Identity development occurs in the context of real-time interactions. However, existing research on interactions has focused on identity processes and little is known about identity content development within interactions. We define real-time identity as claims about selves, formulated in the service of an interactional "social business." The aim of this methodological paper is to introduce Iterative Micro-Content Analysis (IMICA) as an approach to studying the changes and consistencies in real-time identity content. We outline four key principles of IMICA and offer a step by step guide to its analytic stages. We provide two worked examples for illustration: a video-recorded conversation between two young women on the topic of "love and desire," and audio-recorded speed-dating conversations between young same-sex attracted men. The worked examples demonstrate how IMICA can be used to study how identity claims change within a single interaction as well as across multiple interactions. We argue that IMICA's empirical insights into the concrete mechanisms through which social interactions shape identities are of both theoretical and practical relevance. We discuss how IMICA may allow for a micro-level operationalization of macro-level concepts (e.g., exploration or identity centrality), outline how it may be combined with quantitative analyses, and discuss its limitations. KEYWORDS Identity development; realtime processes; social context; identity contentThe development of identity is the central psychosocial task of adolescence and continues into emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2015). It is in the context of everyday interactions with social others that individuals both make identity-constitutive experiences as well as integrate these experiences into a coherent sense of self (Adams & Marshall, 1996;Postmes et al., 2006). This process involves concrete actions and behaviors unfolding in real-time (Lichtwarck-Aschoff et al., 2008;Raeff, 2014;Steinberg, 1995). Importantly, within interactions others are not static developmental contexts, but are actively contributing to an individual's identity development (Schachter & Ventura, 2008). It is through these repeated constructions and negotiations of identities within the here-and-now (i.e. micro-level) that more stable identities emerge across developmental time (i.e. macro-level;Schachter, 2015;Thorne & Shapiro, 2011). Thus, everyday interactions both provide the "content" of identities (e.g., Galliher et al., 2017), and are at the same time a pivotal site and process for the integration of these experiences (e.g., Adams & Marshall, 1996;Postmes et al., 2006). The aim of this methodological paper is to introduce Iterative Micro-Identity Content Analysis (IMICA) as an approach to the study of identity content and its change in the context of real-time interactions.

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Iterative Micro-Identity Content Analysis: Studying Identity Development within and across Real-Time Interactions

Gmelin

Kunnen

2021

Identity

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Civic Identity in Emerging Adulthood

Lep

Zupančič

2023

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

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Abstract. Civic identity refers to beliefs, emotions, and experiences of individuals regarding their membership in a particular community and the perceived opportunities for their civic participation. It represents one of the most important predictors of civic engagement, yet there is little empirical evidence on its development in diverse samples. To address this gap in the literature, we constructed the Civic Identity Status Scale (CISS) to measure four identity statuses proposed by Marcia. In this study, we tested psychometric properties of the newly developed scale and provided evidence for its score, structure, and criterion validity in Slovenia through the lens of contemporary views on validity by testing a series of structural equation models. A sample of 493 emerging adults (aged 18–29 years) participated in an online survey. We determined criterion validity evidence by correlations of the CISS scores with measures of civic behavior, perceived political interest, trust, and self-efficacy and established generalizability evidence by testing the measurement invariance of the CISS across different subsamples. The results suggest that the CISS is a valid and reliable measure. Therefore, we suggest and discuss possible future research directions.

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Personal, Master, and Alternative Narratives: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Identity Development in Context

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In this paper we propose a model for examining personal identity development that moves attention from a relatively exclusive examination of the individual to an examination of the intersection between self and society. We propose that a master narrative model of identity development allows researchers to: (a) align the study of culture and individual on the same metric of narrative, (b) investigate the processes of negotiating personal and cultural narratives, the latter of which are embedded within the structures of society, and (c) investigate the internalization of those structures in personal identities. In laying out this model we define a narrative approach to identity development, five principles for defining master narratives (ubiquity, utility, invisibility, rigidity, and their compulsory nature), three types of master narratives (life course, structural, and episodic), and case examples of each type. This model brings attention to the interaction between self and society, as well as to the constraints on individual agency to construct a personal identity. We conclude by raising questions that emerge out of this framework that we hope will inspire future work on the relationship between self and society in the study of identity development.

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Commitment and Exploration

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Iterative Micro-Identity Content Analysis: Studying Identity Development within and across Real-Time Interactions

Iterative Micro-Identity Content Analysis: Studying Identity Development within and across Real-Time Interactions

Civic Identity in Emerging Adulthood

Personal, Master, and Alternative Narratives: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Identity Development in Context

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