Psychological Studies in Education, College of Education, Temple University.
Center for Educational Partnerships, Old Dominion University.
Dev Psychol. 2017 Nov;53(11):2036-2051. doi: 10.1037/dev0000339.
Current prominent models of identity face challenges in bridging across divergent perspectives and apparent dichotomies such as personal or social-collective, conscious or unconscious, and epigenetic or discursive-relational, and affording pursuit of research questions that allows integrative answers. This article presents a coherent theoretical perspective on the integrative nature of identity and its developmental mechanisms. Adopting the contextual social role as a primary unit of analysis, the Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity (DSMRI) conceptualizes role identity as a Complex Dynamic System (CDS) anchored in action that comprises the actor's ontological and epistemological beliefs, purpose and goals, self-perceptions and self-definitions, and perceived action possibilities in the role. These system components are conceptualized as interdependent, and identity development is viewed as emergent, continuous, nonlinear, contextualized, and given to influences from within and without the system. The role identity itself constitutes an element within a multilevel hierarchy, which at the unit of analysis of the individual reflects a CDS of the multiple roles that constitute the person's psychosocial identity. Identity development involves the formation and restructuring of relations within and among role identities through intra- and interpersonal processes that are mediated by sociocognitive and cultural means, and framed by the context as well as by implicit dispositions. The DSMRI provides a framework to conceptualize and investigate the nature of the identity system, its development, and the relationship between identity development and psychological functioning at different units of-analysis, across different developmental stages and contexts, and using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. (PsycINFO Database Record
当前，主流的身份认同模型在弥合个人与社会集体、意识与无意识、表型与话语关系等明显的对立观点方面面临挑战，也无法为能够得出综合答案的研究问题提供支持。本文提出了一种关于身份认同及其发展机制的综合理论视角。该理论采用情境社会角色作为主要分析单位，将角色认同视为一种复杂动态系统（CDS），其基础是行动，包含了行动者的本体论和认识论信念、目的和目标、自我认知和自我定义，以及在角色中感知到的行动可能性。这些系统成分被视为相互依存的，身份认同的发展被视为涌现的、连续的、非线性的、情境化的，并受到系统内外因素的影响。角色认同本身构成了多层次层次结构中的一个要素，在个体的分析单位上反映了构成个体心理认同的多个角色的 CDS。身份认同的发展涉及到通过人际和个体内部过程在角色认同内部和之间形成和重构关系，这些过程受到社会认知和文化手段的中介，并受到情境以及隐含倾向的影响。DMSRI 提供了一个框架，用于概念化和研究身份认同系统的本质、其发展以及不同分析单位、不同发展阶段和情境下的身份认同发展与心理功能之间的关系，同时可以使用定量和定性方法。
