PSYC 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Identity Formation, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Research on identity began a number of years ago when we were concerned with it. Primarily as a stage-specific crisis of late adolescence, the period in the life cycle that erikson had designated as crucial for identity development. Now we consider the stages into adulthood (erikson didn"t go that far) Erickon"s stages each had a precursor and a successor there may be a movement from status to status within a particular psychosocial period. With identity we identify different resolution patterns = statuses, to capture participant"s different approaches to specific psyc tasks. The interview (instead of qs) was better because: allowed us to understand more about their experiences + made us able to characterize different styles of stage resolution (ordered on a high-low continuum). Each pattern is a resolution, sometimes permanent sometimes temporary. If one were to place these statuses within the original eriksonian diagonal squares, they would simply expand the implied polar alternatives.