Michael D Berzonsky
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 643039 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael D Berzonsky |
| PRENOMES | Michael D |
| SOBRENOME | Berzonsky |
| ASSINATURA | BERZONSKY M D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SUNY Cortland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2652-174X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 511 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Identity Styles and College Adaptation
Identity processing styles (i.e., normative, informational, and diffuse-avoidant) refer to differences in how individuals engage or circumvent the challenge of processing self-relevant information and negotiating identity-relevant conflicts. The role identity commitment, personal agency, and self-regulation played in mediating relationships between identity styles and how successfully students were adapting to college was investigated. Measures o…
Cross-lagged associations between cognitive dispositions, identity processing styles, and identity commitments
The developmental interplay among cognitive dispositions (need for cognition and faith in intuition), identity processing styles (informational, normative, and diffuse-avoidant), and identity commitments was examined. Participants (N = 269 university students) completed measures of the study variables twice separated by a three-month interval. A rational cognitive disposition at T1 predicted increases in informational style scores and decreases i…
Identity Processing Style and Depression
This study investigated the role experiential avoidance and self-regulation play in mediating relationships between stylistic differences in the way college students engage or attempt to evade the process of constructing a personal sense of identity and depressive symptoms. Two hundred seven 18- to 23-year-old undergraduate students completed measures of identity processing style, self-regulation, experiential avoidance, and depressive symptoms. …
An Exploration of Personal Assumptions About Self-Construction and Self-Discovery
The present research explored the role personal assumptions about self-construction and self-discovery play in how meaningful and purposive people perceive their identity commitments and lives to be. In two studies, endorsement of self-constructivist assumptions was positively associated with life meaning, purposive identity commitments, and self-regulation. In Study 1, self-discovery assumptions were positively correlated with purposive identity…
Cognitive Reasoning, Identity Components, and Identity Processing Styles
This study evaluated the hypothesis that relationships between cognitive reasoning processes and the types of identity components (i.e., personal, collective, or social) that individuals emphasize in defining who they are would at least in part be mediated by identity processing styles. Results indicated rational processing was linked positively to a personal identity emphasis and negatively to a social emphasis. Intuitive processing was positive…
Identity Processing Styles and Value Orientations
Recent research has found systematic associations between identity processing styles (how individuals negotiate the process of identity formation) and value orientations (personal views about what values and goals should be pursued). This investigation evaluated the hypothesis that these relationships would at least in part be mediated by individual differences in self-regulation and self-defining commitment. Consistent with previous research, an…
Development and validation of the revised Identity Style Inventory (ISI-5)
Identity processing style refers to differences in how individuals process identity-relevant information as they engage or manage to avoid the challenges of constructing, maintaining, and/or reconstructing a sense of identity. The third version of the Identity Style Inventory (Berzonsky, 1992b) has been used to operationally define identity styles in most empirical investigations. The objective of the present series of studies was the development…
A Process‐Content Approach to Adolescent Identity Formation
Research on identity focuses on the processes involved (e.g., identity style) or its content (e.g., goals and values), but limited research has addressed both issues simultaneously. The present study investigates cross‐lagged relations between identity styles (i.e., informational, normative, and diffuse‐avoidant) and goals (i.e., intrinsic vs. extrinsic and openness to change vs. conservation) in a 3‐wave adolescent sample ( N = 806). Results sup…
A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Identity Construction
The Role of Perceived Parental Dimensions and Identification in Late Adolescents' Identity Processing Styles
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which three dimensions of perceived parenting style (responsiveness, regulation, and autonomy), parental identification, and interactions between parenting and identification accounted for variation in the identity processing styles identified by Berzonsky (1989 Berzonsky , M. D. ( 1989 ). Identity style: Conceptualization and measurement . Journal of Adolescent Research , 4 , 268 – 282 .[Cro…
Commentary
A Diffuse-Avoidant Identity Processing Style
Three studies were designed to investigate the strategic nature of a diffuse-avoidant identity style. In Study 1, individuals with a diffuse-avoidant identity style were differentiated from their informational and normative counterparts primarily by a reliance on strategies that enabled them to avoid self-relevant conflicts and problems and by the use of self-handicapping attributions that enabled them to excuse and rationalize negative self-rele…
Identity Processing Style and Defense Mechanisms
Identity Processing Style and Defense Mechanisms To investigate relationships between identity processing styles and patterns of defense mechanisms, 213 participants (Mean age = 23.01 years) completed measures of defense-mechanism clusters and styles of negotiating (or managing to avoid) identity conflicts and threats (64% of the participants were female). A self-exploratory, informational identity style was associated with defense mechanisms tha…
Explaining Differences in Identity Styles
There are stylistic differences in the manner in which late adolescents approach or manage to avoid the tasks of constructing and revising their sense of identity. This study investigated the role that family functioning and personality variables may play in explaining variation in the adoption of these identity processing styles among late adolescent college students. The findings indicated that personality, but not family functioning, variables…
Identity Styles, Self-Reflective Cognition, and Identity Processes
The role that adaptive and maladaptive self-reflective cognitive processes play in identity formation was investigated. Results indicated that an informational identity style was positively associated with self-reflection and an awareness of internal states. A diffuse-avoidant identity style was linked negatively to internal state awareness, but positively to personal rumination. A normative identity style was positively associated with self-rumi…
Capturing ruminative exploration
Parental psychological control and dimensions of identity formation in emerging adulthood.
Longitudinal data were used to evaluate whether parental psychological control would have a negative impact on identity formation. Perceived psychological control and 4 identity dimensions (i.e., commitment making, exploration in breadth, identification with commitment, and exploration in depth) were assessed 5 times in a college sample. Associations between psychological control and identity (i.e., negative associations with both commitment dime…
Identity-Processing Style, Psychosocial Resources, and Adolescents' Perceptions of Parent-Adolescent Relations
This study aimed to generalize and extend research on identity styles among early adolescents in the Netherlands. The study investigated associations between perceived parent-adolescent relations and identity-processing styles among 13-year-old adolescents and the role identity styles played in mediating relationships between parent-adolescent relations and the identity commitments early adolescents held and the levels of self-regulation they exe…
Psychosocial Resources in First-Year University Students
Psychosocial Resources in First-Year University Students
Ego Identity
Rattansi and Phoenix (1997) presented a postmodernist view of identity as being dynamic, multiplistic, relativistic, context specific, and fragmented, and they rejected Marcia's (1966) identity status model as being "modernist" and inadequate. I agree that identity theory and research can benefit from the postmodernist critique. I argue, however, that their dismissal of the status paradigm may be premature. I consider differences in the ways iden…
Identity Style, Parental Authority, and Identity Commitment
The Structure of Identity
Kroger's (this issue) view that Marcia's (1966) identity statuses constitute an invariant sequence of "soft," structural developmental stages is evaluated. I argue that the reliable status differences found along a number of social, personality, and cognitive dimensions, do not reflect a common underlying identity structure. First, the amount of intrastatus variability found is incompatible with a structural hypothesis. Second, the amount of regr…
Interrelationships Among Identity Process, Content, and Structure
This study was designed to investigate hypothesized relationships among identity process, content, and structure with youth living in three different cultural contexts: the United States, Finland, and the Czech Republic. Results indicated that youth who used an informational identity processing style had well-structured identities that were rooted in personal self-elements. Youth who used a normative processing style also had well-consolidated id…
Identity Style and Well-Being
A case is made for the role that identity processing styles and identity commitment may play in personal well-being. I argue that research on identity commitment is of interest in its own right and it may also serve to clarify some of the relationships found between identity processing styles and outcome variables. Results from 2 studies are used to illustrate 3 ways in which commitment and processing styles may combine to influence outcome varia…
Capturing ruminative exploration
Identity Style
The four personality outcomes classified by Mar-cia 's idenltity-status paradigm are conceptualized in terms of three styles of per sonial pr-oblem solvilng atid decision making: (a) An Information Orientation involves actively sear-chingfor, elaborating, and evaluating issue-relevant iniformation; (b) A Normative Orientation focuses on internalized conventions, standards, and expectations; (c) A Diffuse Orientation is characterized by avoiding o…
Social-Cognitive Aspects of Identity Style
This investigation examined the relationship between identity style and various social-cognitive dispositions: need for cognition, openness to experience, and introspection. Identity style refers to the manner in which individuals characteristically process self-relevant information, solve personal problems, and negotiate identity issues. A maximum likelihood factor analysis indicated that self-reported use of a cogitative information-oriented st…
Identity Status, Identity Processing Style, and the Transition to University
The present study investigated the role that differences in identity orientations may play as students negotiate the transition to a university context. Measures of identity status, identity processing style, and student developmental tasks were administered to 363 entering university freshmen. Results indicated that differences in identity statuses accounted for significant variation in the students’ progress on measures of academic autonomy, ed…
Identity Style and Well-Being
A case is made for the role that identity processing styles and identity commitment may play in personal well-being. I argue that research on identity commitment is of interest in its own right and it may also serve to clarify some of the relationships found between identity processing styles and outcome variables. Results from 2 studies are used to illustrate 3 ways in which commitment and processing styles may combine to influence outcome varia…
Ego Identity Status and Identity Processing Orientation
Identity Style, Parental Authority, and Identity Commitment
Self-Identity
Interrelationships Among Identity Process, Content, and Structure
This study was designed to investigate hypothesized relationships among identity process, content, and structure with youth living in three different cultural contexts: the United States, Finland, and the Czech Republic. Results indicated that youth who used an informational identity processing style had well-structured identities that were rooted in personal self-elements. Youth who used a normative processing style also had well-consolidated id…
Identity Style, Gender, and Social-Cognitive Reasoning
This study was undertaken to evaluate whether different styles of resolving identity questions can be differentiated along various social-cognitive dimensions and whether gender differences are evident. Identity style refers to differences in how individuals process self-relevant information as they negotiate (or manage to avoid) identity issues. Three styles were investigated: (a) informational, (b) normative, and (c) diffuse/ avoidant. Particip…
Identity-Processing Style, Psychosocial Resources, and Adolescents' Perceptions of Parent-Adolescent Relations
This study aimed to generalize and extend research on identity styles among early adolescents in the Netherlands. The study investigated associations between perceived parent-adolescent relations and identity-processing styles among 13-year-old adolescents and the role identity styles played in mediating relationships between parent-adolescent relations and the identity commitments early adolescents held and the levels of self-regulation they exe…
Psychosocial Resources in First-Year University Students
Identity Development, Control Theory, and Self-Regulation
The Kerpelman, Pittman, and La,nke (1997) control model provides an excellent illustration of the potential contribution that research on social-cognitive processes can make to the literature on identity development. Their microprocess analysis offers a novel perspective within which research on identity formation can be conceptualized and conducted. I argue that a credible explanation of the development of autonomous self-regulated behavior need…
Diffusion within Marcia's identity-status paradigm
Interdependence of formal reasoning
The Structure of Identity
Kroger's (this issue) view that Marcia's (1966) identity statuses constitute an invariant sequence of "soft," structural developmental stages is evaluated. I argue that the reliable status differences found along a number of social, personality, and cognitive dimensions, do not reflect a common underlying identity structure. First, the amount of intrastatus variability found is incompatible with a structural hypothesis. Second, the amount of regr…
An Exploration of Personal Assumptions About Self-Construction and Self-Discovery
The present research explored the role personal assumptions about self-construction and self-discovery play in how meaningful and purposive people perceive their identity commitments and lives to be. In two studies, endorsement of self-constructivist assumptions was positively associated with life meaning, purposive identity commitments, and self-regulation. In Study 1, self-discovery assumptions were positively correlated with purposive identity…
Psychosocial Resources in First-Year University Students
Discovery Versus Constructivist Interpretations of Identity Formation
The discovery and creation metaphors of identity formation respectively, are considered within the broader contexts of vitalistic and organismic philosophic assumptions about human development. Individual responsibility and accountability, it is argued, tends to be minimal according to the discovery view. Since one's true self or daimon is predetermined, the individual's role is limited to understanding and realizing that inner essence. From a co…
Identity Formation, Metaphors, and Values
Waterman's (1986) contention that his views on identity, self discovery, and personal responsibility are not accurately represented by Berzonsky (1986) is examined. Two types of responsibility are distinguished: (1) being responsible for the underlying identity that is assumed to emerge (constructivist) or preexist (discovery), and (2) acting responsibly in attempting to construct or discover that identity. I show that an individual cannot be hel…
Pubertal Timing and Identity Crisis
Retrospective self-report data were utilized in an attempt to investigate the relationship between pubertal timing and identity-crisis status. Identity status interviews were administered to 105 late adolescents: 46 males and 59 females. Retrospective reports about pubertal onset were obtained. The results indicated that crisis males reportedly matured significantly later than their non-crisis counterparts whereas the opposite pattern was found w…
Inter-and Intraindividual Differences in Adolescent Storm and Stress
Interdependence of Inhelder and Piaget's model of logical thinking
Effects of probing children's phenomenistic explanations of cause and effect
Interdependence of Inhelder and Piaget's model of logical thinking
Changes in Logical Thinking as a Function of Induced Disequilibrium
In an attempt to improve logical reasoning performances, 64 introductory psychology students were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental condition involved solving logic syllogisms when the obvious “logical error” was not included as a possible answer. Control subjects solved the same problems with the “logical error” included as a choice. An analysis of variance procedure applied to the subjects' logic pretest-pos…
Interdependence of formal reasoning
Component abilities of children's causal reasoning
Inter-and Intraindividual Differences in Adolescent Storm and Stress
Adolescent Development
Pubertal Timing and Identity Crisis
Retrospective self-report data were utilized in an attempt to investigate the relationship between pubertal timing and identity-crisis status. Identity status interviews were administered to 105 late adolescents: 46 males and 59 females. Retrospective reports about pubertal onset were obtained. The results indicated that crisis males reportedly matured significantly later than their non-crisis counterparts whereas the opposite pattern was found w…
Diffusion within Marcia's identity-status paradigm
Discovery Versus Constructivist Interpretations of Identity Formation
The discovery and creation metaphors of identity formation respectively, are considered within the broader contexts of vitalistic and organismic philosophic assumptions about human development. Individual responsibility and accountability, it is argued, tends to be minimal according to the discovery view. Since one's true self or daimon is predetermined, the individual's role is limited to understanding and realizing that inner essence. From a co…
Identity Formation, Metaphors, and Values
Waterman's (1986) contention that his views on identity, self discovery, and personal responsibility are not accurately represented by Berzonsky (1986) is examined. Two types of responsibility are distinguished: (1) being responsible for the underlying identity that is assumed to emerge (constructivist) or preexist (discovery), and (2) acting responsibly in attempting to construct or discover that identity. I show that an individual cannot be hel…
Identity Style
The four personality outcomes classified by Mar-cia 's idenltity-status paradigm are conceptualized in terms of three styles of per sonial pr-oblem solvilng atid decision making: (a) An Information Orientation involves actively sear-chingfor, elaborating, and evaluating issue-relevant iniformation; (b) A Normative Orientation focuses on internalized conventions, standards, and expectations; (c) A Diffuse Orientation is characterized by avoiding o…
Identity Style and Coping Strategies
This Study examined the relationship between identity style and strategies used to cope with stressors that potentially threaten one's sense of identity. Identity style refers to differences in the way individuals construct and revise or maintain their sense of identity. An informational style involves actively seeking out, evaluating, and utilizing self‐relevant information. A normative style highlights the expectations and standards of signific…
The Impact of Self‐Presentations on Self‐Beliefs
To examine the impact of self‐presentations on private self‐appraisals, subjects were induced to characterize themselves positively or negatively during a face‐to‐face interview, during a written interview, or on a private questionnaire. As hypothesized, subjects high in Social Identity (the tendency to root identity in social sources of experience) shifted their self‐appraisals in the direction of their positive or negative role after a face‐to‐…
Social-Cognitive Aspects of Identity Style
This investigation examined the relationship between identity style and various social-cognitive dispositions: need for cognition, openness to experience, and introspection. Identity style refers to the manner in which individuals characteristically process self-relevant information, solve personal problems, and negotiate identity issues. A maximum likelihood factor analysis indicated that self-reported use of a cogitative information-oriented st…
Identity Style, Gender, and Social-Cognitive Reasoning
This study was undertaken to evaluate whether different styles of resolving identity questions can be differentiated along various social-cognitive dimensions and whether gender differences are evident. Identity style refers to differences in how individuals process self-relevant information as they negotiate (or manage to avoid) identity issues. Three styles were investigated: (a) informational, (b) normative, and (c) diffuse/ avoidant. Particip…
Ego Identity Status and Identity Processing Orientation
Self-Identity
Identity Development, Control Theory, and Self-Regulation
The Kerpelman, Pittman, and La,nke (1997) control model provides an excellent illustration of the potential contribution that research on social-cognitive processes can make to the literature on identity development. Their microprocess analysis offers a novel perspective within which research on identity formation can be conceptualized and conducted. I argue that a credible explanation of the development of autonomous self-regulated behavior need…
Reevaluating the Identity Status Paradigm
Identity Status, Identity Processing Style, and the Transition to University
The present study investigated the role that differences in identity orientations may play as students negotiate the transition to a university context. Measures of identity status, identity processing style, and student developmental tasks were administered to 363 entering university freshmen. Results indicated that differences in identity statuses accounted for significant variation in the students’ progress on measures of academic autonomy, ed…
The Structure of Identity
Kroger's (this issue) view that Marcia's (1966) identity statuses constitute an invariant sequence of "soft," structural developmental stages is evaluated. I argue that the reliable status differences found along a number of social, personality, and cognitive dimensions, do not reflect a common underlying identity structure. First, the amount of intrastatus variability found is incompatible with a structural hypothesis. Second, the amount of regr…
Interrelationships Among Identity Process, Content, and Structure
This study was designed to investigate hypothesized relationships among identity process, content, and structure with youth living in three different cultural contexts: the United States, Finland, and the Czech Republic. Results indicated that youth who used an informational identity processing style had well-structured identities that were rooted in personal self-elements. Youth who used a normative processing style also had well-consolidated id…
Identity Style and Well-Being
A case is made for the role that identity processing styles and identity commitment may play in personal well-being. I argue that research on identity commitment is of interest in its own right and it may also serve to clarify some of the relationships found between identity processing styles and outcome variables. Results from 2 studies are used to illustrate 3 ways in which commitment and processing styles may combine to influence outcome varia…
Identity Style, Parental Authority, and Identity Commitment
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