About the Book
Identity is defined in many different ways in various disciplines in the social sciences and sub-disciplines within psychology. The developmental psychological approach to identity is characterized by a focus on developing a sense of the self that is temporally continuous and unified across the different life spaces that individuals inhabit. Erikson proposed that the task of adolescence and young adulthood was to define the self by answering the question: Who Am I? There have been many advances in theory and research on identity development since Erikson's writing over fifty years ago, and the time has come to consolidate our knowledge and set an agenda for future research.
The Oxford Handbook of Identity Development represents a turning point in the field of identity development research. Various, and disparate, groups of researchers are brought together to debate, extend, and apply Erikson's theory to contemporary problems and empirical issues. The result is a comprehensive and state-of-the-art examination of identity development that pushes the field in provocative new directions. Scholars of identity development, adolescent and adult development, and related fields, as well as graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and practitioners will find this to be an innovative, unique, and exciting look at identity development.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The Field of Identity Development Needs an Identity: An Introduction to the Handbook of Identity Development
Kate C. McLean and Moin Syed
Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations of Identity
Phillip L. Hammack
Part 1: Debates: Identity Development Across the Lifespan
Chapter 3: Gendered Narrative Voices: Sociocultural and Feminist Approaches to Emerging Identity in Childhood and Adolescence
Robyn Fivush and Widaad Zaman
Chapter 4: Identity Development from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: What We Know and (Especially) Don't Know
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Chapter 5: Identity Development through Adulthood: The Move Toward "Wholeness"
Jane Kroger
Chapter 6: Three Strands of Identity Development Across the Human Life Course: Reading Erik Erikson in Full
Dan P. McAdams and Claudia Zapata-Gietl
Part 2: Debates: Identity Status Perspectives on Processes of Identity Development
Chapter 7: The Identity Statuses: Strengths of a Person-Centered Approach
Elisabetta Crocetti and Wim Meeus
Chapter 8: Commitment and Exploration: The Need for a Developmental Approach
Saskia Kunnen and Marijke Metz
Chapter 9: Identity Status: On Refinding the People
Ruthellen Josselson and Hanoch Flum
Part 3: Debates: Narrative Perspectives on Processes of Identity Development
Chapter 10: Autobiographical Reasoning Is Constitutive for Narrative Identity: The Role of the Life Story for Personal Continuity
Tilman Habermas and Christin Köber
Chapter 11: Autobiographical Reasoning and My Discontent: Alternative Paths from Narrative to Identity
Monisha Pasupathi
Chapter 12: Discerning Oneself: A Plea for the Whole
Mark Freeman
Part 4: Debates: Internal, External, and Interactional Approaches to Identity Development
Chapter 13: Identity as Internal Processes: How the "I" Comes to Define the "Me"
Alan S. Waterman
Chapter 14: Identities as an Interactional Process
Neill Korobov
Chapter 15: Integrating 'Internal', 'Interactional,' and 'External' Perspectives: Identity Process as the Formulation of Accountable Claims Regarding Selves
Elli P. Schachter
Part 5: Debates: Culture and Identity Development
Chapter 16: Culture as Race/Ethnicity
Frank C. Worrell
Chapter 17: "[T]hey say Black men won't make it, but I know I'm gonna make it": Ethnic and Racial Identity Development in the Context of Cultural Stereotypes
Niobe Way and Onnie Rogers
Chapter 18: Reflections on the Cultural Lenses of Identity Development
Margarita Azmitia
Part 6: Applied Issues in Identity Development
Chapter 19: Identities, Cultures, and Schooling: How Students Navigate Racial-Ethnic, Indigenous, Immigrant, Social Class, and Gender Identities on Their Pathways Through School
Catherine R. Cooper, Elizabeth Gonzalez, and Antoinette R. Wilson
Chapter 20: Transformation, Erosion or Disparity in Work Identity? Challenges during the Contemporary Transition to Adulthood
Jeylan T. Mortimer, Jack Lam, and Shi-Rong Lee
Chapter 21: Identity and Positive Youth Development: Advances in Developmental Intervention Science
Kyle Eichas, Alan Meca, Marilyn J. Montgomery, and William Kurtines
Chapter 22: A Translational Research Approach to Narrative Identity in Psychotherapy
Jefferson A. Singer and Adam M. Kasmark
Chapter 23: Youths' Constructions of Meanings about Experiences with Political Conflict: Implications for Processes of Identity Development
Cecilia Wainryb and Holly Recchia
Part 7: Extensions
Chapter 24: Puberty, Identity, and Context: A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Internalizing Psychopathology in Early Adolescent Girls
Misaki N. Natsuaki, Danielle Samuels, and Leslie D. Leve
Chapter 25: Body Image and Identity: A Call for New Research
Elizabeth A. Daniels and Meghan M. Gillen
Chapter 26: Cultural Neuroscience of Identity Development
Alissa J. Mrazek, Tokiko Harada and Joan Y. Chiao
Chapter 27: Parenting, Adolescent-Parent Relationships, and Social Domain Theory:
Implications for Identity Development
Wendy M. Rote and Judith G. Smetana
Chapter 28: Who Am I If We're Not Us? Divorce and Identity across the Lifespan
Jeffrey T. Cookston and Luke Remy
Chapter 29: Identity Development in the Context of the Risk and Resilience Framework
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi
Chapter 30: The Dynamic Role of Identity Processes in Personality Development:
Theories, Patterns, and New Directions
Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl
Chapter 31: Identity Development in the Digital Age: The Case of Social Networking Sites
Adriana M. Manago
Part 8: Reflections, Conclusions, and the Future
Chapter 32: Identity-Formation Research from a Critical Perspective: Is a Social Science Developing?
James E. Côté
Chapter 33: What Have We Learned Since Schwartz (2001)? A Reappraisal of the Field of Identity Development
Seth J. Schwartz, Koen Luyckx, and Elisabetta Crocetti
Chapter 34: The Future of Identity Development Research: Reflections, Tensions, and Challenges
Moin Syed and Kate C. McLean
About the Author :
Kate C. McLean is an Associate Professor at Western Washington University. Her research centers on the development of narrative identity in adolescence and emerging adulthood, particularly as it develops in social contexts, and as it relates to individual differences in personality and adjustment.
Moin Syed is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses broadly on identity development among ethnically-diverse youth and the implications of identity development for educational experiences.
Review :
"Conceived and executed creatively to engage reader interest by providing contrasting viewpoints, this volume furnishes researchers, teachers, and clinicians with a useful overview of current issues in identity. The wealth of information presented here is a tribute to authors' boldness in advancing in new directions, as well as to Erikson, whose ideas continue to stimulate thinking and research. This book provides an indispensable foundation for anyone
interested in identity development." --James E. Marcia, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
"As a handbook should, this volume provides a comprehensive and holistic description of identity development across the lifespan. But its gift to the multiple fields of identity research is the way it is designed to make the chapters 'talk' to one another and to the history of identity development theorizing and research. The contradictions and gaps in theory and research are made transparent, creating a handful of debates between and within multiple
perspectives rather than a descriptive handbook. Thanks to the editors and authors for this valuable resource." --Sheila Marshall, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Social Work/Division of Adolescent Health
and Medicine, University of British Columbia
"How fitting that the Oxford Handbook of Identity Development came about to bring more coherence to a field which itself studies coherence. Editors McLean and Syed and their talented authors accomplished their goal of shaking up the field by focusing on controversies and challenges rather than by rehashing what is already known. Each section of the Handbook is like a banquet for identity scholars; each course of the meal involves contrasting and
complementary flavors. By the end of the banquet we are satisfied, yet stimulated to ponder the next set of debates, looking forward rather than back." --Harold D. Grotevant, PhD, Rudd Family Foundation Chair in
Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Instead of a review of past research, McLean and Syed present a future-oriented overview of the field with their Oxford Handbook of Identity Development. They fulfill my longstanding wish that all the researchers within the Eriksonian tradition start listening to each other in a joint attempt to integrate their different perspectives into a complex but more integrated identity of identity research. When you share this wish, the book offers an exciting
starting point, excellent food for thought when you want to go beyond the confines of your own research." --Harke A. Bosma, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
