| Abstract: | 82 females from 10th, 11th, and 12th grades in a rural high school provided responses on identity status development (diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and identity achievement status) and perceived parental socialization styles using the Objective Measure of Ego-Identity Status Scales and a questionnaire on parental socialization. Psychometric reevaluation of the identity status instrument (originally normed with older adolescents) and the perceived childrearing items indicated appropriateness with middle-adolescent-female samples. Age difference comparisons show that although the onset of a foreclosed status may begin during the high school years, middle adolescence is not a period of dramatic age differences. The relationship between socialization styles and identity status comparisons reveals evidence for perceived socialization practices by mothers and fathers that significantly differentiate the identity status groups. (26 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
