Identity Development: Adolescence Through Adulthood

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SAGE, 2007 - 305 síður
This volume highlights identity development from early adolescence through late adulthood and provides a valuable resource for university students as well as human services professionals. This Second Edition of Identity Development: Adolescence Through Adulthood presents an overview of the five general theoretical orientations to the question of what constitutes identity, as well as the strengths and limitations of each approach. The volume then describes key biological, psychological, and contextual issues during each phase of adolescence and adulthood. Following these major adolescence and adulthood sections, selected issues that may pose identity challenges for some are presented.
 

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Part I Introduction
1
Chapter 1 Perspectives on Identity
3
Part II Adolescence
31
Chapter 2 Identity in Early Adolescence
33
Chapter 3 Identity in MidAdolescence
59
Chapter 4 Identity in Late Adolescence
87
Chapter 5 Selected Identity Issues of Adolescence
115
Part III Adulthood
137
Chapter 8 Identity in Late Adulthood
191
Chapter 9 Selected Identity Issues of Adulthood
217
Part IV Epilogue
239
Epilogue
241
References
249
Author Index
285
Subject Index
297
About the Author
305

Chapter 6 Identity in Early Adulthood
139
Chapter 7 Identity in Middle Adulthood
165

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Jane Kroger is Professor of Psychology, University of Tromsø, in Tromsø, Norway. She holds a Ph.D. in Child Development. Her research interests are the study of identity in adolescent and adult development. She has published numerous theoretical and research articles on issues of identity and is author of Identity in Adolescence: The Balance between Self and Other, 3rd edition and editor of Discussions on Ego Identity. She has been a visiting scholar at the Erik H. and Joan M. Erikson Center at Harvard University and also at the Henry A. Murray Center for the Study of Lives. She is currently president of the Society for Research on Identity Formation.

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