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Berzonsky, Michael D.; And Others – 1987
Adolescent psychologists readily acknowledge the role that peer expectations and pressures may play in causing youth to act in ways that conflict with previously assimilated attitudes and beliefs. However, minimal research has been focused on self-presentational behavior during adolescence. This study was designed to determine whether the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Higher Education, Peer Influence, Self Concept
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Berzonsky, Michael D.; And Others – Journal of Adolescence, 1990
Investigated relationship between identity status and structural dimensions of individuals' self-theories or personal construct systems in college students (n=118), classified by identity status. Findings indicated Moratoriums and Diffusions had the highest self-construct differentiation. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, College Students, Higher Education
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Berzonsky, Michael D.; Neimeyer, Greg J. – Journal of Adolescence, 1988
Investigated relationship between identity status and structural features of individual's personal construct system. Elicited personal constructs relevant to 10 contemporaneous roles from 75 college students who also completed identity-status measure. Correlational analyses between identity-status scores and structural features of the self-system…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Students, Higher Education, Role Perception
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Berzonsky, Michael D. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1985
This investigation attempted to ascertain longitudinally whether diffuseness about academic goals and plans would predict subsequent underachievement. Identity-status interviews were administered to 98 first-semester college students. Evidence for the hypothesized relationship between diffusion and academic underachievement was not found.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Aspiration, Goal Orientation