Jennifer L Kerpelman
Biographic Data
| ID | 75622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer L Kerpelman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerpelman |
| SIGNATURE | KERPELMAN J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4467-4125 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 253 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Emotional and social cognitive predictors of sexual risk indicators among adolescents in committed and noncommitted partnerships
INTRODUCTION: Little is known about the risks of casual sexual partnerships during adolescence despite many adolescents having sex within noncommitted relationships. We applied theories of adult attachment, planned behavior, and problem behavior to examine emotional and social cognitive predictors of variability in sexual risk indicators among adolescents in committed and noncommitted partnerships. METHOD: Data were drawn from 801 adolescents (53…
Adolescents and sexual risk‐taking: The interplay of constraining relationship beliefs, healthy sex attitudes, and romantic attachment insecurity
INTRODUCTION: Although sexual exploration during adolescence may be perceived as normative, many adolescents who are sexually active are likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors detrimental to their well-being. The present study examined the influence of insecure attachment (anxious and avoidant dimensions), healthy sex attitudes, and constraining relationship beliefs on the following sexual risk indicators: age at first sex, number of sexual p…
Connections Among Identity, Attachment, and Psychological Dating Aggression During Adolescence
The collective influence of identity styles and romantic attachment insecurity on psychological dating aggression was examined for 1,975 adolescents living in a southern state in the United States. Informational identity style related negatively to psychological dating aggression, but anxious romantic attachment related positively to this behavior. Diffuse-avoidant identity style and using psychological dating aggression were associated positivel…
Erikson and the Relational Context of Identity: Strengthening Connections With Attachment Theory
In our contribution to this special issue devoted to reflections on Erik Erikson’s theorizing in Identity Youth and Crisis, 50 years later, we present the value of integrating attachment theory with Erikson’s conceptualization of identity development within a dynamic relational context. We attend closely to how internal working models of self and other link with identity development across time and relationships. We describe how attachment securi…
Practices of Exemplary Transformative Teachers, as Perceived by Students Transformed by an Urban High School Social Justice Course
Young Adolescents' Shared Leisure Activities With Close Friends and Dating Partners: Associations with Supportive Communication and Relationship Satisfaction
Shared leisure activities with close friends and dating partners offer early adolescents a context to develop satisfying relationships. Participants in the current study were 1,696 early adolescents, aged 11–15. Using the Core and Balance Model of Family Leisure Functioning as the conceptual framework, results indicated that supportive communication within close peer relationships matter for young adolescents' satisfaction within these relationsh…
Engagement in Risky Sexual Behavior: Adolescents’ Perceptions of Self and the Parent–Child Relationship Matter
The current study examined associations among parenting practices, adolescents' self-esteem and dating identity exploration, and adolescents' sexual behaviors. Participants were 680 African American and European American sexually experienced adolescents attending public high schools in the southeast. Results indicated that risky sexual behavior was associated positively with parental psychological control, and negatively with self-esteem and dati…
Exploring the Experiences of Female Emerging Adult Mentors: Building a Conceptual Model
While mentoring programs are prevalent, limited research focused on the mentors’ experiences exist, particularly during critical periods of development. Using a qualitative, grounded theory approach, this study explores the elements of the mentoring experience for a cohort of late adolescent/emerging adult women in a long-term program. Outcomes described were both personal and work related, as well as relationally and individually focused. In add…
Reputation Enhancement and School Delinquency: A Prospective Study using the National Educational Longitudinal Survey [Nels: 88]
High school delinquency, adolescent behaviors ranging from repeated school misconduct to being arrested, is a critical concern in the United States. Though widely believed that reputation is related to adolescent behavior, few studies have addressed the relationship between adolescent reputation and delinquency. Using the National Educational Longitudinal Study: 88 (NELS), the current study examined adolescents' individual characteristics, reputa…
A longitudinal examination of career preparation and adjustment during the transition from high school
Preparing for an adult career and incorporating a career into one's identity is a key task during the transition to adulthood (Erikson, 1968), and completing developmental tasks is considered a major factor in adjustment (Havinghurst, 1972). Previous research has established associations between overall career preparation in high school and adjustment soon after high school graduation. Differences in the developmental patterns of career preparati…
Parenting and Children's Self-Control: Concurrent and Longitudinal Relations
The purpose of the current study was to examine the impact parenting has on the development of self-control, both before and after the general theory of crime suggests self-control is established. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, longitudinal data from mothers with children ages 8–9 and 12–13 were analyzed via structural equation modeling. Results demonstrated an overall environment of effective parenting is associated with (1) se…
The Role of Identity Styles and Academic Possible Selves on Academic Outcomes for High School Students
The authors examined linkages among identity styles, academic possible selves, and grades for 1,137 public high school students across a southern state in the United States. The measurement model revealed a positive association for the informational style and a negative association for the diffuse style with academic possible selves. There were positive associations for the informational style, normative style, and academic possible selves with g…
Attachment, Identity, and Intimacy: Parallels Between Bowlby's and Erikson's Paradigms
The theories of John Bowlby and Erik Erikson reveal parallels that, together, offer opportunities to examine attachment-linked working models (secure base representations) as contexts of identity formation. Although the theories are grounded in fundamentally different assumptions, each offers concepts that can enrich the application of the other. One's attachment history serves as a foundation for identity formation. We argue that identity format…
Associations between dimensions of security in romantic relationships and interpersonal competence among dating and non-dating high school adolescents
The current study investigated the association between dimensions of security in romantic relationships, anxiety and avoidance, and general interpersonal competence among two groups of high school-aged adolescents: one currently in a dating relationship (daters) and one not currently involved (non-daters). Our findings show that daters were less anxious, less avoidant, and more competent than non-daters. A moderate negative association was found …
Career Identity Development in College Students: Decision Making, Parental Support, and Work Experience
Identity exploration in the area of work is theorized to be salient in emerging adulthood, and according to Vondracek's extensions of Erikson's theory, self-realization may be achieved through integration of career choice into one's identity. The present study aimed to address the extent to which parental support for career, work experience, and career decision self-efficacy influenced career identity evaluation in a sample of 345 students attend…
Identity Process and Transformative Pedagogy: Teachers as Agents of Identity Formation
Missing from the discussion of adolescent identity development is the role of teachers as identity agents. Teachers can be purposeful co-constructors of adolescents' identities when they use a transformative pedagogical approach that involves fostering collaborative learning and empowering students to think creatively and critically. In an effort to link identity processes with transformative pedagogy, this article begins with a review of theory …
Critiquing the General Theory of Crime's Empirical Evidence: Does the Evidence Support the Theory
Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime proposes that low self‐control leads to engagement in deviant behaviors, parents must properly socialize self‐control in their children, and self‐control fully mediates the parenting‐deviance association. A critical analysis of the empirical evidence generated suggests a number of unresolved issues regarding the theory that remain to be investigated. Some of the specific issues addressed include d…
Coercion Theory, Self-Control, and Social Information Processing: Understanding Potential Mediators for How Parents Influence Deviant Behaviors
Research has demonstrated that (in)effective parenting influences whether a child/adolescent engages in deviant behaviors; however, research is mixed regarding whether that influence is direct. After a review of theoretical and empirical evidence, parenting factors outlined by several theories appear important in explaining the association between parenting and deviance. More importantly, however, is that the parental influence may not be direct,…
African American Adolescents’ Future Education Orientation: Associations with Self-efficacy, Ethnic Identity, and Perceived Parental Support
Identity as a Moderator of Intervention-Related Change: Identity Style and Adolescents' Responses to Relationships Education
We propose that interventions targeting youth should consider the effects of identity formation on outcomes. In this study, data from 935 high school students address the potential moderating effects of identity style (high vs. low informational, normative, diffuse orientations) on intervention-related change in faulty relationship beliefs, future orientation, perceived interpersonal communication skills, salience of future marital and parental r…
Self-concept consistency and future orientation during the transition to adulthood
The aim of the study, upon which this article is based, was to investigate self-concept consistency and orientation towards the future in a sample of Swedish late adolescents (mean age 18.5). The introject part of structural analysis of social behaviour questionnaire, a future index, and an incomplete sentence task were administered to 132 participants. Quantitative and qualitative analyses indicated that participants with an inconsistent self-co…
Parental Influences on Young Women’s Certainty about Their Career Aspirations
Interpersonal Identity and Social Capital: The Importance of Commitment for Low Income, Rural, African American Adolescents
Social capital may be particularly important for the well-being and future opportunities of African American adolescents living in low income families. In this study, linkages between interpersonal identity formation and adolescents' perceptions of social capital quality were examined in a cross-sectional study of 374 low income, rural, African American adolescents (161 males, 213 females), ranging in age from 12 to 19. It was argued that adolesc…
Girls' Self-Perception of Reputation and Delinquent Involvement
Explanations of girls' delinquency traditionally have emphasized individual and family dysfunction. Though recent explanations have emerged that promote less pathological views of girls' delinquency, there are still commonly held views that girls who are delinquent are anomalous. The current study examined reputation theory as a psychosocial explanation of girls' delinquent behavior. Reputation theory suggests that social bonds to others influenc…
Generational and Cultural Changes in Family Life in the United Arab Emirates: A Comparison of Mothers and Daughters
An exploratory study of daughters and their mothers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), guided by modernity theory is reported. The UAE has come from a desert nomadic culture to a high tech oil rich nation in just the past 40 years and is a key place to assess the impact of rapid development and fast paced transformations on family life. Differences and trends in gender and family role attitudes, child care practices, cultural values, perceptions …
Toward a Microprocess Perspective on Adolescent Identity Development: An Identity Control Theory Approach
An abundance of research has been conducted on identityformation during adolescence, however, very little is bwwn about the processes that actually drive identity development. Furthermore, limited attention has been paid to the active influence of relationships with parents and peers on identity. Recentl, control theory has-been recognized as a useful framewor*from which to examine the microprocesses involved in identityformation. The purpose of …
Young Adults' Anticipated Identity Importance of Career, Marital, and Parental Roles: Comparisons of Men and Women with Different Role Balance Orientations
African American Adolescents’ Future Education Orientation: Associations with Self-efficacy, Ethnic Identity, and Perceived Parental Support
Attachment, Identity, and Intimacy: Parallels Between Bowlby's and Erikson's Paradigms
The theories of John Bowlby and Erik Erikson reveal parallels that, together, offer opportunities to examine attachment-linked working models (secure base representations) as contexts of identity formation. Although the theories are grounded in fundamentally different assumptions, each offers concepts that can enrich the application of the other. One's attachment history serves as a foundation for identity formation. We argue that identity format…
Gendered Conflict, Identity Disruption, and Marital Instability: Expanding Gottman's Model
We propose a mid-range conceptual model integrating three somewhat disparate areas of research to provide an understanding of key factors that lead to marital instability. These areas are the influence of gender on marital instability, the negativity and distancing behaviors in marriage, and identity theory. We develop and discuss a model that posits that incongruencies between spouses in gender beliefs, expectations, and behaviors affect marital…
Rural African American Adolescents' Future Orientation: The Importance of Self-Efficacy, Control and Responsibility, and Identity Development
Future orientation has been linked to a range of positive adolescent outcomes (e.g., Nurmi, 1991, 1993; Pulkkinen & Ronka, 1994), whereas a lack of orientation to the future has been associated with delinquency (e.g., Oyserman & Saltz, 1993; Trommsdorff & Lamm, 1980). The purpose of this study was to examine variation in future education and future career orientation within a sample of rural, African American adolescents. It was found that identi…
Coercion Theory, Self-Control, and Social Information Processing: Understanding Potential Mediators for How Parents Influence Deviant Behaviors
Research has demonstrated that (in)effective parenting influences whether a child/adolescent engages in deviant behaviors; however, research is mixed regarding whether that influence is direct. After a review of theoretical and empirical evidence, parenting factors outlined by several theories appear important in explaining the association between parenting and deviance. More importantly, however, is that the parental influence may not be direct,…
Engagement in Risky Sexual Behavior: Adolescents’ Perceptions of Self and the Parent–Child Relationship Matter
The current study examined associations among parenting practices, adolescents' self-esteem and dating identity exploration, and adolescents' sexual behaviors. Participants were 680 African American and European American sexually experienced adolescents attending public high schools in the southeast. Results indicated that risky sexual behavior was associated positively with parental psychological control, and negatively with self-esteem and dati…
Understanding a Work-Family Fit for Single Parents Moving from Welfare to Work
Teng and Pittman's model of "work-family fit" served as a theoretical base for exploring the experiences of families moving from welfare to work. Responding to open-ended telephone interview questions, 30 recently hired welfare recipients described factors that were needed for them to make a smooth transition into work, be successful at their jobs, and balance work and family. The individuals appeared to experience greater success when their own …
African American Mothers' and Daughters' Beliefs about Possible Selves and their Strategies for Reaching the Adolescents' Future Academic and Career Goals
Female Adolescents' Delinquent Activity: The Intersection of Bonds to Parents and Reputation Enhancement
According to the reputation enhancement theory, social bonds influence adolescents' delinquent activity indirectly through the reputations they select. Findings from the current study of a school-based sample of female adolescents indicate that bonds to parents affect reputation enhancement beliefs, which, in turn, predict delinquent activity. Furthermore, mother-daughter bonds appear to moderate the relation between reputation enhancement and de…
Parental Influences on Young Women’s Certainty about Their Career Aspirations
Generational and Cultural Changes in Family Life in the United Arab Emirates: A Comparison of Mothers and Daughters
An exploratory study of daughters and their mothers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), guided by modernity theory is reported. The UAE has come from a desert nomadic culture to a high tech oil rich nation in just the past 40 years and is a key place to assess the impact of rapid development and fast paced transformations on family life. Differences and trends in gender and family role attitudes, child care practices, cultural values, perceptions …
Parenting and Children's Self-Control: Concurrent and Longitudinal Relations
The purpose of the current study was to examine the impact parenting has on the development of self-control, both before and after the general theory of crime suggests self-control is established. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, longitudinal data from mothers with children ages 8–9 and 12–13 were analyzed via structural equation modeling. Results demonstrated an overall environment of effective parenting is associated with (1) se…
Satisfaction With Performance of Housework: The Roles of Time Spent, Quality Assessment, and Stress
Where previous research on satisfaction with housework has examined satisfaction with relative allocations, this study examined spouses' satisfaction with their own performance. The authors found that satisfaction was a function of time spent, quality of outcomes, stress originating both at home and away, and approval by spouses for performance. Time spent and quality of outcomes were related in a complex fashion to satisfaction with own performa…
Self-concept consistency and future orientation during the transition to adulthood
The aim of the study, upon which this article is based, was to investigate self-concept consistency and orientation towards the future in a sample of Swedish late adolescents (mean age 18.5). The introject part of structural analysis of social behaviour questionnaire, a future index, and an incomplete sentence task were administered to 132 participants. Quantitative and qualitative analyses indicated that participants with an inconsistent self-co…
Identity as a Moderator of Intervention-Related Change: Identity Style and Adolescents' Responses to Relationships Education
We propose that interventions targeting youth should consider the effects of identity formation on outcomes. In this study, data from 935 high school students address the potential moderating effects of identity style (high vs. low informational, normative, diffuse orientations) on intervention-related change in faulty relationship beliefs, future orientation, perceived interpersonal communication skills, salience of future marital and parental r…
Stress and Performance Standards: A Dynamic Approach to Time Spent in Housework
Daily logs collected over a 10-week period from a small, nonrepresentative sample of young, childless married couples were examined. Housework was conceptualized as a daily decision predicated upon personal standards, social rhythms, and stress variables that shape the perception of need for housework. Findings indicate that home-based stress, stress from outside the home, and standards are independent, additive predictors of housework time. In a…
Revisiting the Identity Control Theory Approach: A Rejoinder
Adams (1997), Berzonksy (1997), and Grotevant (1997) provided disceming comnentary on the strengths of using a control theory approach to guide research on identity development. They highlighted critical issues and provided suggestions for expanding the identity control theory model. Our response to these comments focuses on the overarching meta-model; the origination and nature of identity standards; thefit of the control theory model with exist…
Reputation Enhancement and School Delinquency: A Prospective Study using the National Educational Longitudinal Survey [Nels: 88]
High school delinquency, adolescent behaviors ranging from repeated school misconduct to being arrested, is a critical concern in the United States. Though widely believed that reputation is related to adolescent behavior, few studies have addressed the relationship between adolescent reputation and delinquency. Using the National Educational Longitudinal Study: 88 (NELS), the current study examined adolescents' individual characteristics, reputa…
Exploring the Experiences of Female Emerging Adult Mentors: Building a Conceptual Model
While mentoring programs are prevalent, limited research focused on the mentors’ experiences exist, particularly during critical periods of development. Using a qualitative, grounded theory approach, this study explores the elements of the mentoring experience for a cohort of late adolescent/emerging adult women in a long-term program. Outcomes described were both personal and work related, as well as relationally and individually focused. In add…
Associations between dimensions of security in romantic relationships and interpersonal competence among dating and non-dating high school adolescents
The current study investigated the association between dimensions of security in romantic relationships, anxiety and avoidance, and general interpersonal competence among two groups of high school-aged adolescents: one currently in a dating relationship (daters) and one not currently involved (non-daters). Our findings show that daters were less anxious, less avoidant, and more competent than non-daters. A moderate negative association was found …
Interpersonal Identity and Social Capital: The Importance of Commitment for Low Income, Rural, African American Adolescents
Social capital may be particularly important for the well-being and future opportunities of African American adolescents living in low income families. In this study, linkages between interpersonal identity formation and adolescents' perceptions of social capital quality were examined in a cross-sectional study of 374 low income, rural, African American adolescents (161 males, 213 females), ranging in age from 12 to 19. It was argued that adolesc…
Identity Control Theory, Exploration, and Choice: "A Commentary on Schwartz's "The Evolution of Eriksonian and Neo-Eriksonian Identity Theory and Research
Young Adolescents' Shared Leisure Activities With Close Friends and Dating Partners: Associations with Supportive Communication and Relationship Satisfaction
Shared leisure activities with close friends and dating partners offer early adolescents a context to develop satisfying relationships. Participants in the current study were 1,696 early adolescents, aged 11–15. Using the Core and Balance Model of Family Leisure Functioning as the conceptual framework, results indicated that supportive communication within close peer relationships matter for young adolescents' satisfaction within these relationsh…
Anticipation of future identities: A control theory approach to identity development within the context of serious dating relationships
Control theory was used to investigate identity microprocesses (i.e., self‐verification)within the context of serious dating relationships. Forty‐two college women importance for, and certainty about, their future career identities served as targets in the study. The targets and their dating partners participated in a procedure in which the targets received career information that was contrary to their beliefs about their future identities. Resul…
Revisiting the Identity Control Theory Approach: A Rejoinder
Adams (1997), Berzonksy (1997), and Grotevant (1997) provided disceming comnentary on the strengths of using a control theory approach to guide research on identity development. They highlighted critical issues and provided suggestions for expanding the identity control theory model. Our response to these comments focuses on the overarching meta-model; the origination and nature of identity standards; thefit of the control theory model with exist…
Toward a Microprocess Perspective on Adolescent Identity Development: An Identity Control Theory Approach
An abundance of research has been conducted on identityformation during adolescence, however, very little is bwwn about the processes that actually drive identity development. Furthermore, limited attention has been paid to the active influence of relationships with parents and peers on identity. Recentl, control theory has-been recognized as a useful framewor*from which to examine the microprocesses involved in identityformation. The purpose of …
Young Adults' Anticipated Identity Importance of Career, Marital, and Parental Roles: Comparisons of Men and Women with Different Role Balance Orientations
Satisfaction With Performance of Housework: The Roles of Time Spent, Quality Assessment, and Stress
Where previous research on satisfaction with housework has examined satisfaction with relative allocations, this study examined spouses' satisfaction with their own performance. The authors found that satisfaction was a function of time spent, quality of outcomes, stress originating both at home and away, and approval by spouses for performance. Time spent and quality of outcomes were related in a complex fashion to satisfaction with own performa…
Adjudicated Adolescent Girls and their Mothers: Examining Identity Perceptions and Processes
The current study was designed to examine linkages between mothers' and daughters' identity and relationship perceptions, their interactions around identity beliefs, and adolescent identity development within a population of adjudicated adolescent girls. Interviews and an interaction task were completed by 25 mother-daughter pairs. Findings revealed both positive and negative identity and relationship themes. Furthermore, observations of mother-d…
Understanding a Work-Family Fit for Single Parents Moving from Welfare to Work
Teng and Pittman's model of "work-family fit" served as a theoretical base for exploring the experiences of families moving from welfare to work. Responding to open-ended telephone interview questions, 30 recently hired welfare recipients described factors that were needed for them to make a smooth transition into work, be successful at their jobs, and balance work and family. The individuals appeared to experience greater success when their own …
Identity Control Theory, Exploration, and Choice: "A Commentary on Schwartz's "The Evolution of Eriksonian and Neo-Eriksonian Identity Theory and Research
Gendered Conflict, Identity Disruption, and Marital Instability: Expanding Gottman's Model
We propose a mid-range conceptual model integrating three somewhat disparate areas of research to provide an understanding of key factors that lead to marital instability. These areas are the influence of gender on marital instability, the negativity and distancing behaviors in marriage, and identity theory. We develop and discuss a model that posits that incongruencies between spouses in gender beliefs, expectations, and behaviors affect marital…
Stress and Performance Standards: A Dynamic Approach to Time Spent in Housework
Daily logs collected over a 10-week period from a small, nonrepresentative sample of young, childless married couples were examined. Housework was conceptualized as a daily decision predicated upon personal standards, social rhythms, and stress variables that shape the perception of need for housework. Findings indicate that home-based stress, stress from outside the home, and standards are independent, additive predictors of housework time. In a…
African American Mothers' and Daughters' Beliefs about Possible Selves and their Strategies for Reaching the Adolescents' Future Academic and Career Goals
Rural African American Adolescents' Future Orientation: The Importance of Self-Efficacy, Control and Responsibility, and Identity Development
Future orientation has been linked to a range of positive adolescent outcomes (e.g., Nurmi, 1991, 1993; Pulkkinen & Ronka, 1994), whereas a lack of orientation to the future has been associated with delinquency (e.g., Oyserman & Saltz, 1993; Trommsdorff & Lamm, 1980). The purpose of this study was to examine variation in future education and future career orientation within a sample of rural, African American adolescents. It was found that identi…
Girls' Self-Perception of Reputation and Delinquent Involvement
Explanations of girls' delinquency traditionally have emphasized individual and family dysfunction. Though recent explanations have emerged that promote less pathological views of girls' delinquency, there are still commonly held views that girls who are delinquent are anomalous. The current study examined reputation theory as a psychosocial explanation of girls' delinquent behavior. Reputation theory suggests that social bonds to others influenc…
Generational and Cultural Changes in Family Life in the United Arab Emirates: A Comparison of Mothers and Daughters
An exploratory study of daughters and their mothers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), guided by modernity theory is reported. The UAE has come from a desert nomadic culture to a high tech oil rich nation in just the past 40 years and is a key place to assess the impact of rapid development and fast paced transformations on family life. Differences and trends in gender and family role attitudes, child care practices, cultural values, perceptions …
Female Adolescents' Delinquent Activity: The Intersection of Bonds to Parents and Reputation Enhancement
According to the reputation enhancement theory, social bonds influence adolescents' delinquent activity indirectly through the reputations they select. Findings from the current study of a school-based sample of female adolescents indicate that bonds to parents affect reputation enhancement beliefs, which, in turn, predict delinquent activity. Furthermore, mother-daughter bonds appear to moderate the relation between reputation enhancement and de…
Interpersonal Identity and Social Capital: The Importance of Commitment for Low Income, Rural, African American Adolescents
Social capital may be particularly important for the well-being and future opportunities of African American adolescents living in low income families. In this study, linkages between interpersonal identity formation and adolescents' perceptions of social capital quality were examined in a cross-sectional study of 374 low income, rural, African American adolescents (161 males, 213 females), ranging in age from 12 to 19. It was argued that adolesc…
Self-concept consistency and future orientation during the transition to adulthood
The aim of the study, upon which this article is based, was to investigate self-concept consistency and orientation towards the future in a sample of Swedish late adolescents (mean age 18.5). The introject part of structural analysis of social behaviour questionnaire, a future index, and an incomplete sentence task were administered to 132 participants. Quantitative and qualitative analyses indicated that participants with an inconsistent self-co…
Parental Influences on Young Women’s Certainty about Their Career Aspirations
African American Adolescents’ Future Education Orientation: Associations with Self-efficacy, Ethnic Identity, and Perceived Parental Support
Identity as a Moderator of Intervention-Related Change: Identity Style and Adolescents' Responses to Relationships Education
We propose that interventions targeting youth should consider the effects of identity formation on outcomes. In this study, data from 935 high school students address the potential moderating effects of identity style (high vs. low informational, normative, diffuse orientations) on intervention-related change in faulty relationship beliefs, future orientation, perceived interpersonal communication skills, salience of future marital and parental r…
Critiquing the General Theory of Crime's Empirical Evidence: Does the Evidence Support the Theory
Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime proposes that low self‐control leads to engagement in deviant behaviors, parents must properly socialize self‐control in their children, and self‐control fully mediates the parenting‐deviance association. A critical analysis of the empirical evidence generated suggests a number of unresolved issues regarding the theory that remain to be investigated. Some of the specific issues addressed include d…
Coercion Theory, Self-Control, and Social Information Processing: Understanding Potential Mediators for How Parents Influence Deviant Behaviors
Research has demonstrated that (in)effective parenting influences whether a child/adolescent engages in deviant behaviors; however, research is mixed regarding whether that influence is direct. After a review of theoretical and empirical evidence, parenting factors outlined by several theories appear important in explaining the association between parenting and deviance. More importantly, however, is that the parental influence may not be direct,…
Career Identity Development in College Students: Decision Making, Parental Support, and Work Experience
Identity exploration in the area of work is theorized to be salient in emerging adulthood, and according to Vondracek's extensions of Erikson's theory, self-realization may be achieved through integration of career choice into one's identity. The present study aimed to address the extent to which parental support for career, work experience, and career decision self-efficacy influenced career identity evaluation in a sample of 345 students attend…
Identity Process and Transformative Pedagogy: Teachers as Agents of Identity Formation
Missing from the discussion of adolescent identity development is the role of teachers as identity agents. Teachers can be purposeful co-constructors of adolescents' identities when they use a transformative pedagogical approach that involves fostering collaborative learning and empowering students to think creatively and critically. In an effort to link identity processes with transformative pedagogy, this article begins with a review of theory …
The Role of Identity Styles and Academic Possible Selves on Academic Outcomes for High School Students
The authors examined linkages among identity styles, academic possible selves, and grades for 1,137 public high school students across a southern state in the United States. The measurement model revealed a positive association for the informational style and a negative association for the diffuse style with academic possible selves. There were positive associations for the informational style, normative style, and academic possible selves with g…
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