Parenting Practices and Adolescent Identity Formation

INTRODUCTION​:

• Overcoming identity confusion (i.e., a sense of uncertainty or inconsistency in one’s idea of oneself; Erikson, 1950) can be difficult for many adolescents and emerging adults.​

• Identity confusion has been found to be positively correlated with social-emotional disorders in numerous studies (Crocetti et al., 2011; Luyckx et al., 2015; Marcotte & Levesque, 2018)​

• Several developmental contextualized theories posit that relationship quality with parents has a direct influence on adolescents’ identity formation (Crocetti et al., 2014).​

• However, limited research has attended to links between parenting strategies and identity.​

HYPOTHESES​:

1. Paternal and maternal strategies will influence Identity coherence (opposite of identity confusion).​
2. Paternal and maternal strategies will influence Identity confusion.​