Robenalt, ChelseaMeca, Alan2024-04-162024-04-162024-04-02https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/6386INTRODUCTION​: • 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.​enPoster