Department of Kinesiology, University of New Hampshire.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of New Hampshire.
Dev Psychol. 2017 Nov;53(11):2023-2035. doi: 10.1037/dev0000383.
Future advances in identity research will depend on integration across major theoretical traditions. Developmental-contextualism has established essential criteria to guide this effort, including specifying the context of identity development, its timing over the life course, and its content. This article assesses 4 major traditions of identity research-identity status, eudaimonic identity, sociocultural theory, and narrative identity-in light of these criteria, and describes the contribution of each tradition to the broader enterprise of developmental-contextual research. This article proposes dialectical integration of the 4 traditions, for the purpose of generating new questions when the tensions and contradictions among theoretical traditions are acknowledged. We provide examples from existing literature of the kinds of research that could address these questions and consider ways of addressing the validity issues involved in developmental-contextual identity research. (PsycINFO Database Record
未来的身份研究进展将取决于主要理论传统的整合。发展-情境主义已经确立了指导这一努力的基本标准，包括指定身份发展的背景、其在整个生命周期中的时间安排以及其内容。本文根据这些标准评估了身份研究的 4 大传统——身份认同状态、幸福论身份认同、社会文化理论和叙述身份认同，并描述了每一种传统对更广泛的发展-情境研究事业的贡献。本文提出了这 4 种传统的辩证整合，目的是在承认理论传统之间的紧张关系和矛盾时提出新的问题。我们从现有文献中提供了可以解决这些问题的研究类型的例子，并考虑了解决发展-情境身份研究中涉及的有效性问题的方法。
