Identity-Agency Relationship in Ethnic Perspective

Identity-Agency Relationship in Ethnic Perspective

Introduction

Emerging adulthood is a tricky period involving successive transition from adolescence to adulthood. The amazing research article “Identity and Agency in Emerging Adulthood: Two Developmental Routes in the Individualization Process” is written by Seth J. Schwartz, James E. Côté and Jeffrey Jensen Arnett and was published in the Journal of Youth and Society in December, 2005. The article focuses on the consistency of relationship between agency and identity formation in emerging adulthood in an ethnic perspective.

Summary

The study focuses on agency-identity relationship from three psychological angels that are style, status and process and begins ...