“…Against this backdrop of an abusive loathsome mother and a withdrawn unprotective father hiding behind a façade of public righteousness and respectability that confuses her, Debra tells of encounters during adolescence that had her adopt a “negative identity” (Erikson, ; Hihara, Sugimura, & Syed, ):I hated being labeled the rabbi's daughter. … Teachers would say “Why's the rabbi's daughter behaving that way … Girl's at school would say “Is that how a rabbi's daughter behaves?”… I became really wild.…”
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“…Against this backdrop of an abusive loathsome mother and a withdrawn unprotective father hiding behind a fac ßade of public righteousness and respectability that confuses her, Debra tells of encounters during adolescence that had her adopt a "negative identity" (Erikson, 1968;Hihara, Sugimura, & Syed, 2018):…”
We present a rationale and method for taking an idiographic approach to study the role religion plays in adolescent development. We theorize that adolescents harness qualitatively different aspects of religion to address idiosyncratic developmental needs. Therefore, analyzing religion's role in adolescent development necessitates a case‐by‐case holistic analysis. We introduce a systematic method using narratives to identify the personal ways that individuals attribute meaning in general and regarding religion in particular. We present three detailed case studies from a sample of 20 religious Israeli Jewish Orthodox emerging‐adult women who provided retrospective narrative accounts of their general and religious development through adolescence. Systematic analysis reveals that religion was significant to these women in diverse and personal ways, addressing markedly different adolescent developmental needs.
“…Against this backdrop of an abusive loathsome mother and a withdrawn unprotective father hiding behind a façade of public righteousness and respectability that confuses her, Debra tells of encounters during adolescence that had her adopt a “negative identity” (Erikson, ; Hihara, Sugimura, & Syed, ):I hated being labeled the rabbi's daughter. … Teachers would say “Why's the rabbi's daughter behaving that way … Girl's at school would say “Is that how a rabbi's daughter behaves?”… I became really wild.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Against this backdrop of an abusive loathsome mother and a withdrawn unprotective father hiding behind a fac ßade of public righteousness and respectability that confuses her, Debra tells of encounters during adolescence that had her adopt a "negative identity" (Erikson, 1968;Hihara, Sugimura, & Syed, 2018):…”
We present a rationale and method for taking an idiographic approach to study the role religion plays in adolescent development. We theorize that adolescents harness qualitatively different aspects of religion to address idiosyncratic developmental needs. Therefore, analyzing religion's role in adolescent development necessitates a case‐by‐case holistic analysis. We introduce a systematic method using narratives to identify the personal ways that individuals attribute meaning in general and regarding religion in particular. We present three detailed case studies from a sample of 20 religious Israeli Jewish Orthodox emerging‐adult women who provided retrospective narrative accounts of their general and religious development through adolescence. Systematic analysis reveals that religion was significant to these women in diverse and personal ways, addressing markedly different adolescent developmental needs.
“…However, the reliance on interview methods certainly excluded some potential participants, a problem that is common in disability research (Lester & Nusbaum, 2018). Furthermore, it is possible that some potential participants who might have informed our results may not have reached out to us because they did not identify as having a disability (Watson, 2002) or because they have a predominantly negative disability identity (e.g., Hihara, Sugimura, & Syed, 2018).…”
ObjectiveThis qualitative investigation focused on identity integration in a sample of individuals who acquired physical disabilities in adulthood. It also argues for the importance and ethics of these methods in the broader field of scholarship on personality change following adversity.MethodThirteen adults participated in the study. Participants engaged in an expanded Life Story Interview wherein they narrated the story of their life, including a section devoted to their story of acquiring a physical disability. In addition, participants completed questionnaires concerning their psychological well‐being and maturity.ResultsWe identified two dimensions of narrative themes participants used in grappling with identity integration: one represented active processing of one's life experiences and the other represented the extent to which participants described their identity as wholly transformed by the experience of acquiring a disability. When overlaid, these dimensions yielded four narrative strategies titled: Adapters, Wanderers, Drifters, and Resisters. We also observed that Adapters seemed to have better psychological well‐being and maturity than the other groups.ConclusionsThis study offers a foundation for future scholarship on identity among people with disabilities. It also describes the contexts in which retrospective, qualitative methods are especially appropriate for research on personality change following adversity.
“…While past identity research has extensively focused on predictors and indicators of both "optimal" identity development processes and outcomes (e.g., identity achievement) and problematic ones (e.g., diffusion or rumination), contributors to this volume discussed some of the relatively unexplored variations that Erikson had described regarding both adaptive and maladaptive identity development. Notably, Hihara, Sugimura, and Syed (2018) focused on Erikson's concept of negative identity, a concept different from identity confusion or diffusion, which has not received much theoretical or empirical attention within our field. Rogers (2018) also touched on this topic.…”
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“…He pointed out the necessity that our social institutions entrusted with guiding youth correctly differentiate between possibly transient identity crises and more enduring mental disorders-and respond to these different categories accordingly. Both Kay (2018) and Hihara et al (2018) addressed the ways that modern technology, along with a legacy of marginalization and oppression, creates an environment that engenders pseudospeciation, an Eriksonian concept that has seen little conceptual and empirical analysis, despite its possible importance in understanding contemporary negative social phenomena. In line with the emphasis of these contributors on the pseudospeciation concept, we believe identity researchers following Erikson need to face the conceptual challenge of clarifying this concept and differentiating positive, empowering authentic identities from pseudo-identities, both of which are inherently based in a sense of belongingness, connection to, and identification with, sociocultural groups.…”
This introductory analysis presents the content of the special issue entitled "Fifty years since 'Identity: Youth and Crisis': A renewed look at Erikson's writings on identity." The authors of the nine thought pieces that compose this special issue were invited to direct the attention of readers of Identity to aspects of Eriksonian thought that they believe have been left undeveloped or underdeveloped. A number of powerful and relevant topics were raised in this collection. Authors call upon identity scholars to engage more fully with the relational, contextual, interactional, and cultural components of Erikson's theory, including analysis of identity development within the context of important relationships; the advent of the Internet as a context for identity development; and greater acknowledgement of the impact of forces of marginalization and oppression on identity development. In addition, articles in this special issue explore difficult or problematic aspects of identity development that have been relatively neglected in previous research, including negative identity, identity crisis, and pseudospeciation. A deeper analysis of epigenetic processes of development is offered, as is an analysis of Erikson's implication of the unconscious in identity development. Together this collection of essays provides a framework for moving research based in Eriksonian theory forward.
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