Identity and Agency in Emerging Adulthood

By Seth J. Schwartz, J. Côté, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Identity Construction (2011, background): “Schwartz, Cote, and Arnett (2005) did compare the style scores of three self-identified ethnic groups of students in an American university: Hispanics, non-Hispanic Blacks, and non-Hispanic Whites.”
Time perspective and identity formation: Short-term longitudinal dynamics in college students (2010, background): “Commitment is what tends to separate successful from unsuccessful identity development (Schwartz et al., 2005).”
Personal identity processes and self-esteem : Temporal sequences in high school and college students (2013, background): “…setting may be characterized by a diversity of choices and life options for individuals in Western societies (Arnett, 2000), individuals need to come to grips with themselves and their lives in order to negotiate the transition to adulthood successfully (Côté & Levine, 2002; Schwartz et al., 2005).”
The Dangerous Myth of Emerging Adulthood: An Evidence-Based Critique of a Flawed Developmental Theory (2014, methodology): “This is now a very common type of procedure (Confirmatory Factor Analysis) and was used for instance by Schwartz, Côté, and Arnett (2005) on variables operationalizing variations in identity-based agency, finding invariance in two factors across three ethnic groups in the United States…”
Emerging Adulthood and College‐aged Youth: An Overlooked Age for Weight‐related Behavior Change (2008, background): “, self-efficacy) develop or become established during this period of emerging adulthood (4), providing support for the unique importance of this life stage in long-term behavioral patterning.”
Personal identity processes from adolescence through the late 20s : age trends, functionality, and depressive symptoms (2013, background): “However, due to an expanding set of options, this emphasis on individual free choice can induce confusion in certain young people (Schwartz et al., 2005).”
The relationships of personal and ethnic identity exploration to indices of adaptive and maladaptive psychosocial functioning (2009, background): “Indeed, Schwartz, Côté, and Arnett (2005) found that commitments – particularly those enacted following a period of exploration – differentiated more from less successful identity development.”
Identity in Emerging Adulthood (2013, background): “In terms of exploration and commitment, an informational style is linked with exploration and flexible commitment; a normative style is linked with strong commitments and with the absence of exploration; and a diffuse-avoidant style is linked with the absence of commitment and of systematic explorat”
Employment, Sense of Coherence, and Identity Formation (2008, background): “Furthermore, Schwartz et al. (2005) demonstrated that emerging adults with higher scores on agentic functioning were more likely to engage in flexible commitment making.”
Capturing ruminative exploration: Extending the four-dimensional model of identity formation in late adolescence (2008, background): “However, this extended moratorium can induce confusion in young people for whom the seemingly limitless possibilities are intimidating and disequilibrating (Schulenberg, Wadsworth, O’Malley, Bachman, & Johnston, 1996; Schwartz et al., 2005).”