Aries E, Moorehead K
Psychol Rep. 1989 Aug;65(1):75-82. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1989.65.1.75.
Ego-identity status was examined in 20 male and 20 female black junior and senior high school students. Ego-identity was assessed by a semistructured interview measuring questioning and commitment in the traditional areas of occupation, ideology (religion and politics), sexual-interpersonal attitudes and behavior, and the newly added area of ethnicity. The greatest questioning and commitment occurred in the area of ethnicity. Ethnicity was most predictive of over-all identity-status and was seen as most important to self-definition. The other area of central importance was occupation. While the ideological and sexual-interpersonal areas have been found in previous research to have central importance for white adolescents, they were found in this sample of black adolescents to show the lowest concordance with over-all identity and to be cited as having least importance in self-definition. The lowest amount of questioning and commitment occurred in these areas.
对20名黑人初中和高中男生及20名黑人初中和高中女生的自我认同状态进行了研究。自我认同通过半结构化访谈进行评估，该访谈测量了在职业、意识形态（宗教和政治）、性人际态度和行为等传统领域以及新增加的种族领域的质疑和投入程度。最大程度的质疑和投入出现在种族领域。种族最能预测总体认同状态，并且被视为对自我定义最为重要。另一个至关重要的领域是职业。虽然在先前的研究中发现意识形态和性人际领域对白人青少年至关重要，但在这个黑人青少年样本中，发现它们与总体认同的一致性最低，并且在自我定义中被认为重要性最低。在这些领域中，质疑和投入的程度最低。
