Nobrow: Identity Formation in a Fatherless Generation.

Strenger, Carlo

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“…The study results are inconsistent with those of Imbimbo (1995) who showed that identity styles do not differ in single-parent and two-parent adolescents. To explain the findings, we first examine the results of Strenger (2004). He examined the young people who had grown up without a father and found that in order to form their identity they require less guidance from earlier generations and rely less on cultural continuity with their parents.…”

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A Comparative Study of Identity Styles, Quality of Life and Behavioral Problems between Single Parent and Two Parent Adolescents

Abedini¹,

Mirnasab²,

Azar³

2017

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The present study aimed to investigate identity styles, quality of life and behavioral difficulties between adolescents with single and two-parent status. In this causal-comparative study, a total of 214 high school students were selected, then 112 single parent students (59 females and 53 males) were selected by the voluntary response sampling method. Also, 112 students with two parent status were randomly selected. Identity styles Inventory (Bennion & Adams, 1986), quality of life questionnaire and Achenbach Youth Self-Report (YSR) were administered. Analysis of variance and t-test for independent groups were used for analyzing the data. The results showed that in terms of moratorium and Identity diffusion there is no significant difference between single parent and two parent adolescents but there was significant difference in terms of Identity achieved and foreclosure. Single parent adolescents had more Identity achieved and two parent adolescents had more foreclosure. Additionally, the comparisons of quality of life components between these two groups showed that the groups had no significant difference in any of the following measures of the quality of life (e.g., physical health, psychological, social relationships and environmental domains). Finally, the findings showed that there was significant difference between the two groups in terms of behavioral problems. The study showed that single parent adolescents are more anxious/depressive than their two parent peers. This research has some implications for the future studies on investigating the role of family structure in adolescents' psychological status.

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A Comparative Study of Identity Styles, Quality of Life and Behavioral Problems between Single Parent and Two Parent Adolescents

Abedini¹,

Mirnasab²,

Azar³

2017

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“…We grew up with(out) absentee parents. We are the "latchkey" generation, who raised ourselves in an atmosphere of familial and economic insecurity, fast-paced change, and problematic relationships (Holtz, 1995;Strenger, 2004).…”

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The Ghostwriter Writes No More

Herrmann

2016

Qualitative Inquiry

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This narrative articulates the advantages of long-term autoethnographic logotherapy. I explore how the practice of long-term autoethnographic logotherapy led me to the point where I was prepared for my father’s death, and how that allowed me to let him go before he actually died. I propose that long-term personal narrative and autoethnographic writing are not merely a form of therapy and healing. Rather, it is a practice aligned with existential psychologist Victor Frankl’s conception of logotherapy, literally “healing through meaning.” Using vignettes, I interrogate canonical narratives about father–son relationships, especially focusing on troubled relationships, and examine standard notions of bereavement.

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“…Another decade later, we are in the present, and in the company of yet another description of how our patients have changed. This time, they are Gen X-ers, or products of a “nobrow” culture (Strenger, 2004). The cultural problem, presumably having some causal relationship with the modal symptom complex, is the ahistoricity of the young: Many Gen X-ers seem not to feel the desire or value of raising the next generation.…”

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Freud on the Acropolis: An appreciation.

Anderegg¹

2006

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The relevance of Freud for the present and the future is often questioned because of the assertion that "our patients have changed," that is, that Freud's theorizing is too rooted in the past, and theoretical or technical innovation is necessitated by the contemporary problems our patients bring to us now. An appreciative reading of an underappreciated late Freud paper, "A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis," suggests that Freud's theory is more flexible and broadly applicable than Freud's critics have described. Bridging the gap between an analysis of cultural and individual ills is always problematic, but as the "Acropolis" paper shows, Freud's theory can accommodate a wide variety of cultural and historical conditions because of the emphasis on compromise between competing generational claims, no matter what the specific content of the claims themselves.

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Nobrow: Identity Formation in a Fatherless Generation.

Cited by 8 publications

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A Comparative Study of Identity Styles, Quality of Life and Behavioral Problems between Single Parent and Two Parent Adolescents

A Comparative Study of Identity Styles, Quality of Life and Behavioral Problems between Single Parent and Two Parent Adolescents

The Ghostwriter Writes No More

Freud on the Acropolis: An appreciation.

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