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The period of adolescence is typically associated with the establishment of a personal identity, or a subjective sense of sameness and continuity. This chapter will present the results of a longitudinal study of identity development in late adolescents or college students. The research project was inspired by the Identity Status Paradigm and the data on intra-individual change were collected by means of a procedure, known as a cohortsequential design. Finally, students’ perceptions of the university environment were assessed in an attempt to explore the role of disequilibration as a causal (or antecedent) factor in the gradual strengthening of the sense of self.
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Goossens, L. (1995). Identity Status Development and Students’ Perception of the University Environment: A Cohort-Sequential Study. In: Oosterwegel, A., Wicklund, R.A. (eds) The Self in European and North American Culture: Development and Processes. NATO ASI Series, vol 84. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0331-2_3
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