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The relationship of values to identity achievement status

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Each of 61 college undergraduates was classified as a high or low scorer based on his score on the Simmons Identity Achievement Status (IAS) scale. Ss from each group also ranked Rokeach's terminal and instrumental values in order of importance. The finding of differential ranking of several values by the high and low IAS Ss was congruent with Erikson's statements regarding the constructs of ego identity and identity diffusion and, in addition, seemed to lend further validity to the IAS scale.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York

    Joseph Andrews (Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Hofstra University)

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Received Ph.D. in 1968 from Syracuse University in the area of school psychology. Major areas of interest are socialization; personalty development in children and adolescents.

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Andrews, J. The relationship of values to identity achievement status. J Youth Adolescence 2, 133–138 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02214090

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