Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Toward an Integrative View of Identity -- What Is Identity? -- Identity Contents and Processes -- A Single Identity or Multiple Identities? -- Self and Identity: Overlapping or Distinct? -- Divisions Within the Literature -- Individual, Relational, or Collective? -- Stable or Fluid? -- Discovered, Personally Constructed, or Socially Constructed? -- Quantitative or Qualitative Methods? -- Toward Integration -- Purpose and Outline of This Handbook -- Volume 1: Structures and Processes -- Volume 2: Domains and Categories -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Part I Personal and Developmental Perspectives -- 2 The Identity Statuses: Origins, Meanings, and Interpretations -- Origins and Meanings of the Identity Statuses -- Theoretical Origins -- Identity and Late Adolescence -- Researching Erikson's Identity Construct -- The Identity Statuses -- Research Strategy -- Initial Identity Status Research -- Some Implications of Method for Assessing Identity Status -- A Current Assessment -- Interpretations of the Identity Statuses: Studies and Theoretical Place -- Identity Status and Concurrent Personality Variables -- Identity Status and Antecedent Conditions -- Identity Status and Consequent Conditions -- Identity Status and Developmental Patterns of Change -- Identity Interventions -- The Identity Statuses in Relation to Other Identity Models -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 3 A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Identity Construction -- The Structure of Identity -- A Constructivist Epistemological Perspective -- Self-Theorists: A Process Approach to Identity Formation -- An Informational Processing Orientation: Scientific Self-Theorists -- Diffuse-Avoidant Processing Orientation: Ad Hoc Self-Theorists.

A Normative Processing Orientation: Dogmatic Self-Theorists -- Research on Identity-Processing Orientations -- Convergent Validity -- A Dual-Process Model -- Identity-Processing Style and Cognitive Processing -- Identity-Processing Styles, Cognitive Processing, and Identity Processes -- Identity-Processing Styles, Cognitive Processing, and Identity Content -- Identity-Processing Style and Self-Knowledge -- Gender Differences in Identity-Processing Style -- Cultural Differences in Identity-Processing Styles -- The Development of Identity Style -- Identity Style and Parental Processes -- Identity Style and Personality Traits -- Self-Regulatory Processes -- Commitments and Self-Standards -- Self-Evaluative Processing -- Overriding Impulsive Reactions -- Identity-Processing Style and Self-Continuity -- Concluding Comments -- References -- 4 Processes of Personal Identity Formation and Evaluation -- The Identity Status Paradigm and Its Extensions -- Erikson and Marcia as Founding Fathers -- Influential Neo-Eriksonian Extensions -- A Process-Oriented Approach to Identity Formation and Evaluation -- Introducing Four Interrelated Dimensions -- Assessing Identity Development Across Time -- Typologies of Identity Formation in Adolescence and Adulthood -- Antecedents, Correlates, and Consequences of Identity Formation and Evaluation -- Moving Identity Theory and Research Forward -- Distinguishing Between Ruminative and Adaptive Exploration -- Extending Marcia's Identity Statuses -- New Correlates, Target Groups, and Methodologies -- Suggestions for Intervention and Counseling -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 5 Narrative Identity -- History of the Concept -- Narrative Identity and the Life Course -- Culture and Narrative -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Possible Identities -- Conceptualizations of Possible Identities -- Early Roots.

Current Conceptualizations -- Identity-Based Motivation: Situated, Dynamic, Constructed in Context -- Early Research on Possible Identities: Role Models as Ideal Self -- Possible Identity Content -- Assessment Issues -- Content Across Life Phases and Transitions -- Intersectionalities of Possible Identity Content Across Gender, Racial--Ethnic, and Socio-Cultural and Socio-Economic Contexts -- Valence -- Temporal Distance -- Consequences of Possible Identities -- Consequences for Well-Being -- Consequences for Behavior -- Consequences for Identity-Based Motivation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Social and Contextual Perspectives -- 7 The Relational Self -- An Integrative Conceptualization of the Relational Self -- Linkages Between Stored Self-Knowledge and Significant-Other Knowledge -- Multiple Levels of Specificity -- Activation of Relational Selves -- Content of Relational Selves -- The Relational Self: A Transference-Based Perspective -- The Social-Cognitive Model of Transference -- Transference and the Relational Self -- Evidence for the Relational Self in Transference -- Summary -- Other Theoretical Perspectives on the Self and Significant Others: Points of Convergence and Divergence -- Relational Schemas -- Attachment Theory -- Including Others in the Self -- Relational-Interdependent Self-Construal -- The Bigger Picture: Relations to Other Aspects of Identity and Future Directions -- Relational Selves and Culture -- Relational Selves and Gender -- Future Directions -- Summary and Concluding Remarks -- References -- 8 Discourse and Identity Construction -- Discourse and Identity -- Discourse: A Preliminary Working Definition -- Capital-D and Small-d Discourse: Constructing a Sense as Agent -- Stylistics, Sociolinguistics, and Ethnography: Integrating and Differentiating Self and Other.

Narrative Identities---Constructing Constancy and Change -- Identity as Discursively Constructed -- Agency -- Same Versus Different -- Constancy and Change Across Time -- Summary -- Illustration -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 9 Group Identities: The Social Identity Perspective -- Introduction -- Social Identity Theory -- Background -- Social Identity and Social Identification -- The Minimal Group Studies -- Motives for Intergroup Discrimination -- Social Identity, Status Differences, and Social Change -- Self-Categorization Theory -- Self and Self-Definition -- Identity Salience -- Social Stereotyping (Versus Prejudice) and Depersonalization -- Social Influence -- Developments and Extensions of the Social Identity Approach -- Intragroup Dynamics and the ''Black Sheep Effect'' -- Depersonalization, Deindividuation, and the SIDE Model -- The Elaborated Social Identity Model -- Intergroup Emotions -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 10 The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective and Identity Theory -- The Symbolic Interactionist Frame: Philosophic Backdrop and Early Sociological Development -- Contemporary Symbolic Interactionism: Major Variants, Commonalities, and Differences -- Traditional Symbolic Interactionism -- Social Structural Symbolic Interactionism -- Structural Symbolic Interactionist Theories -- Bridging Capacity: Connections to Other Perspectives and Theories -- Bridges to Other Social Psychological Frames and Theories in Sociology -- Bridging to Cognitive Social Psychology, Social Identity Theory, and Personality Theory -- Bridging to Other Segments of Sociology -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 11 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Identity -- Beginnings: The Twenty Statements Test -- Contexts for Identity: Individualism and Collectivism -- Independent Versus Interdependent Self-Construal.

Self-Construals as Predictors -- Additional Dimensions of Self-Construal -- Focus on Hierarchy -- Focus on Relatedness -- Focus on Category Inclusiveness -- Focus on Agency -- Basic Problems: Theory and Method -- Experimental Approaches -- Language as a Prime -- Priming Independence/Interdependence -- Priming of Biculturals -- How Do Priming Studies Advance the Field? -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 12 Identity Construction in Sociohistorical Context -- The Ancient Person of the West: Persona and Self -- Self and Self-Image: The Renaissance and the Deployment of Folly, Parody and Satire -- Adam Smith, the Scottish Enlightenment and Self-Identity -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 13 Globalization and Cultural Identity -- A Definition of Cultural Identity -- Globalization and the Focus on Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood -- With Globalization Comes Complexity -- Globalization and Language -- Globalization and Diet -- Globalization and Media -- With Complexity Comes Diversity -- Assimilation -- Separation -- Integration -- Marginalization -- With Diversity Come Opportunities and Risks -- Cultural Identity Confusion -- A Cultural Gap Between Adolescents and Parents -- Youth Civic Involvement -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Well-Being, Needs, and Motives -- 14 Dynamics of Identity: Between Self-Enhancement and Self-Assessment -- What Is Identity? -- The Roots of Psychological Identity -- Dimensions of Self-Construal -- The Core of Identity -- Distinguishing Identity and Self -- Identity Motives -- Three Key Motives -- Evidence for the Motive to Self-Enhance -- Evidence for the Motive to Self-Assess -- Consequences of the Motives to Self-Enhance and Self-Assess -- The Motive to Self-Verify -- Other Identity Motives -- Number, Nature, and Nomenclature -- Identity, Affect, and Agency Are Intertwined -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

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This volume emphasizes the depth and complexity of identity processes and domains and presents perspectives from many different theoretical schools and empirical approaches. It also tackles many emerging issues, from globalization to consumer identity.

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