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Identity Study 11 10
Identity Study 11 10
Review
Research
Question/Hypothesis
Methods
Discussion
66 Participants
Students
may engage in identity
exploration because
an environmental
event provided them
with a trigger
experience or because
they are
already oriented
towards exploration
Procedure:
Phenomological
Analysis
because
of scaffolding they
receive from teachers
and peers or employ
Exploratory strategies
they are already
familiar with on their
own.
What the findings of
the current study
suggest is that
educators
can design educational
activities with the aim
of promoting trigger
Experiences, sense of
safety, and scaffolding
of exploratory actions.
Within schools is
where students find
their identity (Erikson,
1968).
Identity exploration
often causes anxiety.
(Kroger 2004).
Identity formation in
others (2006; Kaplan &
2003; Plum).
Different in selfconcerns and
background
(Grotevant, 1987).
Adolescents feel
secure to explore a
different identity but
lack the way on how to
engage (Flum &
Blustein, 2000;
Vangrick et al, 2010).
Kroger, J. (2004). Identity in adolescence: The balance between self and other (3rd ed.).
New York: Routledge.
Erikson, E. H. (1968). Identity: Youth and crisis. New York: Norton.
Kaplan, A., & Flum, H. (2006, July). Facilitating an exploratory orientation in school.
Paper presented at the 4th international biennial SELF research conference, Ann
Arbor, MI.
Flum, H., & Kaplan, A. (2003). Training Jewish and Arab school counselors in Israel:
Exploring a professional identity in a conflicted society. In D. M. McInerney & S.
Flum, H., & Blustein, D. L. (2000). Reinvigorating the study of vocational exploration:
A framework for research. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 56, 380404
Vangrick, R., Kaplan, A., & Flum, H. (2010, March). Adolescents self-exploration in the
school context. Poster presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for
Research on Adolescence, Philadelphia, PA, USA.