An Investigation into the Relationship between African late Adolescents' Identity Formation and their Perceptions of dimensions of Family Functioning in a Rural Eastern Cape Setting
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2005-05
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University of Fort Hare
Abstract
Black adolescents, especially, experience the transformation process, which is
currently in progress in South Africa, as a difficult challenge. The racial changes and
demands in the country have an intense effect on the way young people's identities
a re formed. Brighton-Cleghorn ( 1987) stated that it is in such instances where the
family structure plays a vital role in the formation and structuring of the young
adolescent's identity. Identity formation can be seen as a central developmental task
during adolescence, according to Erickson's (1968) stage 5 of his psychosocial
theory of personality development. Marcia's (1964, 1966) identity status approach
has become one of the successful and most widely used methods in the studying of
adolescent identity formation. Marcia's operationalisation of Erikson's concept of
identity information, the identity statuses, was used in the present study. The identity
statuses represent four ways (Identity Achievement, Identity Moratorium, Identity
Foreclosure, Identity Diffusion) of dealing with the identity crisis towards the end of
the adolescent years.
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Black adolescents, Eastern Cape, transformation, South Africa
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Bennett, Myron,J.(2005).An Investigation into the Relationship between African late Adolescents' Identity Formation and their Perceptions of dimensions of Family Functioning in a Rural Eastern Cape Setting. Alice.University of Fort Hare.