Sugimura Kazumi, Hihara Shogo, Hatano Kai, Umemura Tomotaka, Crocetti Elisabetta
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-1-1 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8524, Japan.
Faculty of Business Administration, Matsuyama University, 4-2 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime, 790-8578, Japan.
J Youth Adolesc. 2025 Feb;54(2):454-467. doi: 10.1007/s10964-024-02073-9. Epub 2024 Sep 20.
Although identity research has predominantly focused on college-bound adolescents, it has largely neglected vocational high school students who enter the job market immediately after graduation. Furthermore, most studies have concentrated on personal identity and have overlooked the concurrent development of social identity. This study examined the relationship between adolescents' personal and social identities over three years of vocational high school. The participants were 4,264 vocational high school students in Japan (Time 1: 46.44% girls; M = 15.78). Using a random intercept cross-lagged panel model, the results indicated that within-person increases in social identity predicted increases in personal identity one year later. These findings highlight the importance of social identity as a valuable resource for personal identity development among vocational high school students, a group underrepresented in identity research.
尽管身份认同研究主要聚焦于准备上大学的青少年，但很大程度上忽略了毕业后直接进入就业市场的职业高中学生。此外，大多数研究都集中在个人身份认同上，而忽视了社会身份认同的同步发展。本研究考察了职业高中三年间青少年个人身份认同与社会身份认同之间的关系。参与者为日本的4264名职业高中学生（时间1：女生占46.44%；M = 15.78岁）。使用随机截距交叉滞后面板模型，结果表明，社会身份认同的个体内增长预测了一年后个人身份认同的增长。这些发现凸显了社会身份认同作为职业高中学生个人身份认同发展的宝贵资源的重要性，职业高中学生是身份认同研究中代表性不足的群体。
