Interpersonal Identity Research Articles

A Pragmatic Study on the Identity Construction of Deceptive Telecom Discourse

Taking identified fraud telephone recordings as the corpus, the study first analyses the lexicon and overall structure of fraud discourse from the perspective of pragmatics and then explores the identities constructed by fraudsters. It found that, in deceptive telecom discourse, address forms and technical terms are used to construct the turn, and the fraud conversation has a relatively complete structure, including a beginning, problem construction, problem solving, and a closing. In addition, the lexical choice and the overall structure of deceptive conversation help to construct the fraudster’s individual identity, interpersonal identity and group identity. Individual identity includes the real identity as a fraudster and the false identity as a help seeker; interpersonal identity involves identity as a relative or superior; and group identity can be divided into institutional identity and professional identity. This study aims to enhance people’s awareness of fraud and assist in identifying the fraudulent identities of scammers, thereby reducing the occurrence of telecom fraud incidents.

Realization of affiliation goals, interpersonal identity development, and well-being: effects of the implicit affiliation motive among German and Zambian adolescents.

Across various cultural contexts, success in goal realization relates to individuals' well-being. Moreover, commitment to and successful pursuance of goals are crucial when searching for a meaningful identity in adolescence. However, individuals' goals differ in how much they match their implicit motive dispositions. We hypothesized that successful pursuance of affiliation goals positively relates to commitment-related dimensions of interpersonal identity development (domain: close friends) that, in turn, predict adolescents' level of well-being. However, we further assumed that the links between goal success and identity commitment are particularly pronounced among adolescents who are characterized by a high implicit affiliation motive. To scrutinize the generalizability of the assumed relationships, data were assessed among adolescents in individualistic (Germany) and collectivistic (Zambia) cultural contexts. Regardless of adolescents' cultural background, we found that commitment-related dimensions of interpersonal identity development mediate the link between successful attainment of affiliation goals and well-being, particularly among adolescents with a pronounced implicit affiliation motive; that is, the strength of the implicit affiliation motive moderates the association between goal success and identity commitment. We discuss findings concerning universal effects of implicit motives on identity commitment and well-being.

Identity Matters for Well-Being: The Longitudinal Associations Between Identity Processes and Well-Being in Adolescents with Different Cultural Backgrounds.

Adolescents' identity processes and their levels of well-being are likely to be intertwined. On the one hand, how adolescents cope with the core developmental task of forming their identity has important implications for their well-being. On the other hand, experiencing a condition of well-being can help adolescents consolidate their identity. This longitudinal study adopted a multidimensional and culturally sensitive perspective to unravel how identity processes (i.e., commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment) in two domains (i.e., educational and interpersonal identity) were developmentally related to multiple indicators of positive well-being (i.e., physical health, subjective, psychological, and social well-being) in adolescents with different cultural backgrounds. Participants were 1396 adolescents (Mage = 15.73, SDage = 1.23, 49.93% females; 20.89% with a migrant background) who completed questionnaires at four-time points across one year. Results of cross-lagged models confirmed the positive reciprocal associations between identity commitment and well-being in all its facets. The nuanced picture of associations of in-depth exploration and reconsideration of commitment with multiple dimensions of well-being highlighted the importance of adopting a multi-dimensional perspective on well-being and a domain-specific approach to identity. Multigroup analyses indicated that the associations between identity commitment in the educational domain and well-being are relevant, especially for adolescents with a migrant background. Overall, this study highlights the centrality of identity processes for adolescents' adaptation and points to a dynamic loop of reciprocal influences at the core of youth positive development.

Customizing a consumers’ story for you: The impact of protagonist geographical distance on willingness to share

Consumers' stories, which reveal the interactions between consumers and brands from the perspective of consumers, are increasingly prevalent in advertisements and service communications. Although previous research has explored the impact of consumers' story plots, elements, types, and endings on story effectiveness, the connection between the audience and story protagonist is often of greater concern to consumers. This study examines how the geographical distance between audiences and consumers' story protagonists can prompt audiences to share a consumers' story. A dataset was collected from leading social platforms, and four scenario–based experiments were conducted, which demonstrated that the geographical distance between the protagonist and audience enhanced audience–protagonist similarity and interpersonal identity leading to a more positive willingness to share the story. Additionally, the effect of geographical distance on willingness to share is stronger when the story is based on true events; this effect is attenuated when the story is fictitious. The findings provide a proximal protagonist that advertisers can use in a story to prompt audiences to share consumers’ stories.

Beyond Systems of Oppression: The Syndemic Affecting Black Youth in the US.

Adolescence is a challenging time fraught with developmental changes that influence sociocultural identity, psychosocial and biological development. Integrating a sense of ethnic identity into one’s personal identity is an important task for Black youth during this developmental stage as it impacts aspirations, ideology, and interpersonal identity. Black youth are not only navigating this critical stage but doing so while traversing issues related to a syndemic of injustice rooted in anti-Black racism that permeates the very fabric of our society. This manuscript describes the syndemic of injustice framework as it relates to the ways in which anti-Black racism contributes to experiences of structural, symbolic and interpersonal violence for Black youth and how these experiences of violent oppression ultimately influence the developmental processes involved in identity formation for Black youth. Implications for social work practice are discussed.

Paradoxical Neuroethical Crisis of Agency and Identity in an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Deep Brain Stimulation Patient

IntroductionDeep Brain Stimulation is an increasingly viable, well-established treatment for medication refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder. Yet, its neuromodulatory effects on the brain have led to varying and opposing neuroethical debates about its potential influence on a range of phenomena such as human agency, sense of nonauthenticity and identity.ObjectivesEstablish the importance of maintaining the psychotherapeutic alliance in a long-term DBS patient who reported minimal device side effect and no brain-technology interface interpersonal issues; yet struggled with a paradoxical phenomenon of psychic distress surrounding issues of agency and identity, not through device implantation, but through morphology of cognitions from negativistic interpersonal dynamics and spousal victim-blaming due to the necessity for such a device.MethodsCase-report of a 60+-year-old gentleman with a history of childhood-onset, treatment refractory OCD with a 15-year history of bilateral DBS lead placed via a ventral caudate/ ventral striatum trajectory through the anterior limb of the internal capsule to the nucleus accumbens.ResultsYears later he was only minimally improved above baseline; yet now with a few-years increasing degree of distress over a perceived atrophy of his capabilities that he felt was validated through what he described as his failure of artificial bionics. Extensive device setting re-optimization did not improve efficacy and with supportive therapy, the DBS device was weaned, and turned off.ConclusionsThe following year the therapeutic foci were on interpersonal identity, existential acceptance of breakthrough symptoms, and engagement of spouse into marital counseling leading to subsequent resolution of distress with improved quality of life.DisclosureNo significant relationships.

The Assessment of Dual-Cycle Identity Models Among Secondary School Students: The Hungarian Adaptation of DIDS and U-MICS.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the factor structure and validity of the Hungarian versions of the Dimensions for Identity Development Scale (DIDS) and Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS). Both models assume that the iterative process of exploring and evolving commitments occurs in two distinct cycles. The sample for testing the factor structure of DIDS consisted of 808 adolescents (357 boys and 451 girls) aged between 14 and 21 years (Mage = 16.86; SD = 1.35). The sample for testing the factor structure of U-MICS consisted of 803 adolescents (353 boys and 450 girls) aged between 14 and 21 years (Mage = 16.88; SD = 1.34). Results indicated a five factor model of DIDS in the present sample. All the five dimensions correlated as hypothesized both internally and externally. In line with previous research, six clusters emerged based on the dimensions of DIDS, including ruminative moratorium. Regarding U-MICS, results indicated a three factor model in the present sample. All the three dimensions were internally and externally correlated as hypothesized regarding both ideological and interpersonal identity domains. With regard to the identity status cluster solution, five clusters emerged in both the educational and friendship domains. We found specific variation regarding identity clusters in the two identity domains. Our results support the use of these two measurements in Hungarian context. Further, our results confirm the divergent developmental dynamics of ideological and interpersonal identity domains.

From lone wolves to members of the pack: Exploring interpersonal identity work within identity workspaces

SummaryIndividuals can experience the urge to realize their desired work selves, inspired either by the “roads not taken” in the past or positive images of the self in the future. Based on a qualitative study of healthcare professionals working in Italian community hospitals, we develop a process model of how communities of individuals who are unable to enact their desired work selves in their current occupations create new entities to act as identity workspaces to host their identity work. They may do so even if they hold different desired work selves, engaging in interpersonal identity work. The processes of identity work and collective creation of an identity workspace are intertwined since the identity work of one individual is in an ongoing dynamic relation with the identity work of other individuals. People converge to play out their desired work selves in an identity workspace which is supportive. However, the heterogeneity of the desired work selves involved can lead to the individual's identity work encroaching on the identity work of the others, and this heterogeneity results in impasse. This impasse is resolved only when individuals engage in interpersonal identity work, through mutual exploration and enactment of expanded work selves in an enabling identity workspace.

Identity Formation Patterns and Online Activities in Adolescence

ABSTRACT Online activities can provide a wide range of opportunities for young people in dealing with age-related transitions and developmental tasks, such as forming their identity. This study aimed to unravel the associations between adolescent identity formation and online activities, internet skills, and risks. Using a nationally representative sample of Lithuanian adolescents (N = 549, mean age 15.5 years, 46.6% girls), we examined how adolescents, who were classified into distinct identity statuses (achievement, early closure, moratorium, searching moratorium, and diffusion) across two identity domains central to the adolescent experience (educational and interpersonal identity), differ in their pattern of online activities, skills, and risks. The findings highlighted that adolescents in the achievement and searching moratorium statuses could be characterized by a richness of online experiences. Those in the searching moratorium status also had the lowest level of online risks. In contrast, those in the moratorium and diffusion statuses showed lower diversity and richness of online activities. Adolescents in the diffusion status group also had low internet skills. Adolescents in the early closure group showed a mixed profile of online activities.

A Discourse Analysis of Zuckerberg’s Pragmatic Identities’ Construction based on Adaptation Theory

People construct different pragmatic identities in everyday talk and the process of building identities usually adapts to the context. To be specific, entrepreneurs represents himself and the company when uttering to the outside society and the construction of entrepreneur’s identity is related to the company’s image. They are inclined to use intertextuality resources to build connection with the potential audience. Therefore, in this research, the author analyzed an entrepreneur’s speech discourse to describe what pragmatic identities are constructed and how does the construction adapt to the speaking context. To answer these questions, the author conducted a discourse analysis to illustrate relationship between the language use and physical, social and mental world based on Adaptation Theory. The results presented that the entrepreneur builds various master identities, interpersonal identities, and personal identities with intertextuality language resources to adjust to the speaking context. This study suggested that entrepreneurs are supposed to improve the skill of manipulating their discourse strategies to build close connection with potential listener.

The Relationship Between Employees’ Intra-group Identities and Their Contribution to Small Group Activities: The Role of Subgroup Membership/Non-membership

Introduction. Much research is focused on the relationship between employees’ organizational identifications and various forms of their organizational behavior that are not directly related to their work responsibilities. However, previous research efforts have not taken into account certain aspects of employees’ identifications and their behaviour in the context of groups. The present study addresses the relationship between employees’ group, microgroup, and interpersonal identities by three components (cognitive, affective, and behavioral) and their contribution to production group activities depending on their membership/non-membership in informal subgroups.
 Methods. The study employed (a) the formalized algorithm for identifying informal subgroups in groups, (b) the interpersonal identity questionnaire, (c) the microgroup and group identity questionnaire, and (d) the contribution to group activities scale. All these techniques were embodied in the Group Profile–Universal computer program. The authors used this computer technique to conduct a survey of study participants and to carry out the primary data processing.
 Results. Microgroup affective identities of subgroup members correlate positively with their contribution to group activities. Group cognitive and affective identities and interpersonal affective identities of subgroup non-members are positively related to their contribution to group activities. Additionally, the study demonstrated two nonlinear (quadratic) relationships between interpersonal and group behavioural identities of subgroup members and their contribution to group activities; this relationship was more significant for group identities, than for interpersonal ones.
 Discussion. The authors interpret the relationship between employees’ identities and their contribution to group activities depending on their membership/non-membership in informal subgroups.
 Conclusion. The authors draw conclusions about the characteristics of the relationship examined in the present study. Further research will be required to investigate intermediate variables in the relationship between the levels and components of identities on the one hand, and the contribution to group/subgroup activities on the other.

The role of coping strategies in interpersonal identity development of war-affected immigrant adolescents.

Increasing immigration around the world has affected the lives of children and adolescents. The ability to cope with the stress of migration and adaptation to a new culture likely is an important protective factor for optimal identity development under these conditions. The present study examined the role of coping strategies in interpersonal identity development among immigrant adolescents. The sample consisted of 93 (43% females) first-generation immigrant adolescents who migrated to Turkey due to war in their home countries. They have been living in the suburbs in Ankara and attending regular public schools. A two-wave longitudinal design was employed with a 4-month interval between waves. Identity development was measured using the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale focusing on the dimensions commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment in the domain of interpersonal relations. The coping strategies problem-solving, social support seeking, and avoidance were assessed with the Coping Strategies Scale. Results showed that none of the identity dimensions significantly predicted the use of specific coping strategies. However, different coping strategies predicted relative change in some identity dimensions. These results are discussed in light of previous findings on associations between identity development and coping strategies in different populations, and the difficulties associated with being an immigrant.

Teachers’ professional identity construction on Facebook using the teacher-student interaction perspective

Teachers’ professional identity is created in the dynamic process of interpersonal interaction. This research aims to investigate how teachers negotiate their interpersonal role identities across physical and digital student-teacher interactions. By employing a descriptive qualitative design, this research used the ethnographic method. An interview guide was designed to seek an in-depth understanding of this phenomenon by gaining insights from ten high school teachers from Metro Manila. After collecting the data, an inductive approach is used to analyse the data. The research reveals that the teachers’ interpersonal identity standards and their appraisal of their interaction with their students on Facebook and their network logic align and are congruent with one another. The teachers’ interaction with their students online and offline is always guided by their perceived roles and responsibilities and their limitations and boundaries as teachers.

FORMS OF MANIFESTATION OF INTERPERSONAL IDENTITY CONFLICTS WITH DIFFERENT CONTROL LOCUS IN CERTAIN AGE PERIODS

The article is devoted to the investigation of the forms of manifestation of interpersonal identity conflicts with different control locus in certain age periods. Forms of manifestation and their solving methods in adolescence and preadult age are different. It is a period of physiological and mental development in adolescence, it characterized by puberty crisis, which refers to the person's qualitative alteration of the general development. Personality of boys and girls is characterized by pubescence, when increased irritation is changing by emotional self-control, they consciously build their communication ways, continue improvement of significant qualities. At that time, increasing tenseness in society, forming a person's worldview, its new social status leads to conflicts,their solution is due to the choosing ability of the right style of behavior in a conflict situation, to analyze the other people style and adapt to a new social environment. A person as a social individual, embodies the most significant social qualities, which determine behavior. A persistent feature, which is forming in the socialization process, is the control locus that allows to explain responsibility for the action's results in different ways. The investigation's attention is focused on such styles of behavior in manifestation conflicts as: rivalry, compromise, adaptation, collaboration, avoidance. According to the results of the investigation, it was determined that the compromise style is more pronounced in preadult age and the preoccupation style is adolescent. There was no statistically significant interconnection between the locus control and conflict behavioral styles. Distinctions of behavior style in the conflict in adolescence and preadult age, which are not due to personal characteristics, were identified. The investigation results would be taken into account in the pedagogical process of secondary schools and in teaching disciplines in higher education institutions.

Why Do Age and Bias Matter? Historical, Social, and Biological Impacts Across Generations of LGBTQ Older Adults

We do not live in a stagnant world, politically, historically or socially - neither are the life experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) older adults. Their physical, psychological and social lives are impacted by their present and past historical contexts and generational identity, as well as the sociopolitical environment, social pressures, support and experiences of biases. This symposium draws upon data from Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging and Sexuality/Gender Study, the first longitudinal study of LGBTQ older adults in the United States, in order to examine how environmental, interpersonal and intrapersonal structures impact the lives of the three oldest generations of LGBTQ adults. Emlet and colleagues examine the generational and historical forces across the life course among 205 transgender older adults in order to illuminate how historical context and gender influences social life and physical health. Prasad and colleagues explore differences between various constructs of bias including lifetime discrimination, victimization, everyday discrimination and microaggressions on LGBTQ older adults and how those experiences impact depression, general health and quality of life. Lastly, Hoy-Ellis and colleagues explore how life course predictors including interpersonal violence, legal marriage, and identity management are associated with allostatic load (AL) in a sample of 317 LGBTQ older adults who range in age from 50-97. We will address the intersectionality of generational identity, experiences of bias and biomarkers, as well as the implications for policy and practice.

Motive-Driven Interpersonal Identity Development: Moderating Effects of Perceived Parenting Quality and Sense of Self-Determination

Living and acting in line with one's implicit motives fosters peoples’ well-being across a wide array of cultural contexts. Yet, not all individuals commit to goals that reflect their implicit motives. Research points to resources that relate to congruence of implicit and explicit motives. We hypothesized that such resources also relate to motive-congruent identity development. In detail, we assumed that perceived parenting quality (Study 1) and sense of self-determination (Study 2) moderate the relationship between the implicit need for affiliation and dimensions of identity development in the interpersonal domain of friendship. Evidence supporting our assumptions was found in both studies: Among adolescents who reported low levels of parenting quality higher levels of the implicit affiliation motive were associated with lower levels of commitment and higher levels of reconsideration of commitment (Study 1). Moreover, a positive association between the implicit affiliation motive and commitment was verified for adolescents who were high in self-determination (Study 2). Less straightforward findings on in-depth exploration point to the Janus-faced nature of exploration processes. To conclude, the implicit need for affiliation seems to play a crucial role in interpersonal identity development if particular social and personal resources are available. Implications for future research are discussed.

Lexical-semantic configuration of ordinary relational identities in multicultural groups of university students

ABSTRACT The terms used to designate ordinary relational identities seem easy to learn and translate. However, these interpersonal identities reflect complex mental constructs that are very sensitive to the variables that interact in human communication, particularly cultural variation. This paper describes a pilot project developed at the University of Valencia aimed at exploring the meaning differences in these identities within multicultural university groups, in order to help students improve their social and academic communication skills. The results reveal significant differences in their pragmatic meanings. Therefore, linguistic, intercultural and cognitive adjustment processes become necessary for their adequate understanding and translation.

O medo do consumo solitário: comentários em canais infantojuvenis de YouTube do Brasil e de Portugal

ABSTRACT Sociotechnical networks both promote the appearance of social news and reinforce old dynamics: fears, passions, dreams, expressions. YouTube, through its algorithm and tools, gives rise to interpersonal dynamics and identity perceptions, both in production and consumption. In this sense, in this study we analyzed 500 comments on the 10 most consumed children’s YouTube channels in Brazil and Portugal, perceiving different dynamics in productions, as well as similarities and imitations in consumption and expression in relation to consumption. However, what stood out most in this study was the revelation of a widespread fear of loneliness in the cultural consumption of products and trends on YouTube. Realizing what is being consumed online seems to be a social thermometer used by young people to feel present and connected.

Producing an LGBT Religious Organizational Identity: The Case of DignityUSA

In this exploratory study, we examine the production of an organizational LGBT religious identity utilizing the case of DignityUSA. To this end, we engage in two interconnected analyses. First, we revisit and verify the findings of Loseke and Cavendish (2001) concerning the production of what they called a “Dignified Self,” which LGBT Catholics may use to integrate their religious-sexual-gender identities. Then, we expand on their analyses of DignityUSA in the late 1990’s to outline the ways DignityUSA constructs an organizational identity their members may draw upon to construct the Dignified Self and integrate their sexual/gender and religious identities. In so doing, our analyses speak both to (1) Loseke and Cavendish’s (2001) call to explore whether their findings from three years of newsletters held over time; and (2) calls over the past two decades for LGBT religious studies to expand beyond individual LGBT religious-sexual-gender identity integration to ascertain the construction of the organizational identities LGBT people draw upon to accomplish individual and interpersonal identity integration.

Diverse-and-Dynamic Pathways in Educational and Interpersonal Identity Formation during Adolescence: Longitudinal Links With Psychosocial Functioning.

This study aimed to examine the relations between educational and interpersonal identity trajectories and psychosocial functioning based on a three-factor identity process model. A total of 968 Japanese adolescents including 13- and 16-years-olds (49.7% female) participated in a four-wave longitudinal study. Latent class growth analysis extracted five identity trajectories in each educational and interpersonal identity domain and revealed (a) high prevalence of low commitment identity trajectories, (b) absence of the closure trajectory, and (c) changeable identity trajectories that have not been identified in Western context (i.e., the Netherlands). Furthermore, a latent change model revealed dynamic relations between identity trajectories and psychosocial functioning. These findings provide critical insights into the diverse and dynamic pathways of identity formation during adolescence in Japan.