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ERIC Number: EJ854659
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Oct
Pages: 22
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0140-1971
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Using the Identity Processing Style Q-Sort to Examine Identity Styles of Turkish Young Adults
Eryigit, Suna; Kerpelman, Jennifer
Journal of Adolescence, v32 n5 p1137-1158 Oct 2009
This paper reports on two studies with Turkish young adults that used the Turkish version of the Identity Processing Style Q-Sort (IPSQ). The IPSQ is based on Berzonsky's informational, normative, and diffused identity styles. Participants sort descriptors of the styles into columns ranging from most to least like them. Patterns in Turkish young adults' identity styles were examined in the first study. The construct validity of the IPSQ-Turkish version based on associations between the IPSQ and measures of cultural orientation, self-definitions, self-concept clarity, self-esteem, and coping was tested in the second study. Results of the first study were consistent with the current literature in terms of a negative correlation between informational and diffuse/avoidant styles, and a relatively weaker relationship between informational and normative styles. Support for the construct validity of the Turkish version of the IPSQ was found in the second study, with results consistent with other IPSQ research. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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