Abstract
The purpose of present research was study the relation between identity styles and psychological wellbeing in students of university of semnan. The samples consisted of 256 male-female undergraduate (158 female & 96 male) in the scholastic year 2009-10 that selected with multi- stage cluster way. Ryff scale of psychological wellbeing (RSPWB), and Identity style Inventory (ISI-6G) used in this research. The relation of identity style and psychological wellbeing evaluate by regression and the difference between them with sexually segregation analyzed with helping independent T-test. The results showed that significant positive relationship between normative identity styles and wellbeing and a significant negative relationship between diffuse identity styles and wellbeing. there was no significant difference in none of identity styles and psychological well being in sexually.Thus there is significant relation between between identity styles and psychological wellbeing. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s3p207
Highlights
Different theoretical approaches have been described following the recent studies regarding the nature of psychological well-being (Wising and Eeden, 1997)
The results of regression analysis test in order to determine the power of psychological well-being prediction based on identity styles have been presented in table 4, which indicate that the proportion of each identity style in predicting psychological well-being are different from each other and normative identity style has the highest determination coefficient; that is to say, it can predict the psychological well-being in students more than all other identity styles
The results indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between information identity style and psychological well-being (r=0.402) which this correlation is relatively in a high level; there is a positive and significant relationship between normative identity style and psychological well-being (r=313) which is relatively in a low level and there is a negative and significant relationship between confused identity style and psychological well-being (r=0.162) which is in a low level while significant
Summary
Different theoretical approaches have been described following the recent studies regarding the nature of psychological well-being (Wising and Eeden, 1997). Theoretical aspects of positive psychological health in recent views include autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations with others, having purpose li life and self-acceptance. Psychological well-being is affected by various issues such as social and familiar relationships, personality and the identity formed within. Berzonsky(1990) assumed that individuals are different from each other by different identity conditions make use social-cognitive processes for resolving personal issues, decision-making and the identity formation process. Research shows that there is a positive relationship between using information identity orientation and self-thinking, problem-solving coping efforts, a strong need for recognition, cognitive complexity, conscious decision-making and consciousness, cheerfulness and openness (Beronzsky, 1990; Beronzsky& Sullivan, 1992). The present study aims to examine the relationship between identity styles and psychological well-being
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