Abstract
The term identity is very important for adolescents. Adolescence is a time to sum up one’s past and current experience to arrive at a sense of identity, which in turn will guide one’s future plans. Adolescence has been considered as a period marked with identity crisis. Who am I all about? What am I going to do with my life? What is different about me? How can I make it on my own? These questions are usually considered in adolescence. Adolescents are keen for solutions to questions of identity. Identity has been called a “sense” an “attitude” a “resolution” and so on. The term social support means the person seeks help and support from friends, the term self esteem means the belief about their own self. Self-esteem is a socio psychological construct that assesses an individual’s attitudes and perceptions of self-worth. For this purpose a sample of 150 adolescents (75 boys and 75 girls) ranging in age from of 14 to18 years, were selected from various schools of Hisar, Haryana (India).They were administered (EOMEIS-2; Bennion and Adams, 1986), Perceived Social Support Assessment (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley, 1988), Self Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965). The result has been discussed and shown in tables.
Highlights
The present study mainly focuses on identity formation and the role of self esteem and social support
From the above table it was depicted that there was no significant difference between means on identity formation status like achievement, Moratorium, foreclosure, diffused, self esteem and social support on male and female adolescents
In aggregate, it can be said that identity formation status moratorium negatively correlated with self esteem
Summary
After reviewing the past research following objectives were formed: 1) To study the relationship between identity formation and social support among adolescents. 3) To study the difference in identity formation between girls and boys. 4) To study the difference in self esteem between girls and boys. 5) To study the difference in social support between girls and boys. 1. It is assumed that identity formation is associated with social support. 2. It is expected that identity formation is associated with self esteem. 3. It is assumed that there is difference between male and female adolescents on identity formation. 4. It is assumed that there is difference between male and female adolescents on social support. 5. It is assumed that there is difference between male and female adolescents on self esteem
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