A Study on Pattern of Identity Development among Adolescents

The aim of this investigation was to study the pattern of identity development among adolescents of different categories. A sample number of 120 adolescents belonging to different age groups from schools and colleges were selected for the study. To know the identity development of adolescents a scale developed by Cheek and Briggs (2013) was used for data collection. The scale has 45 items divided into four sub headings such as personal, relational, social and collective identity development. Results of the study indicate that, almost equal percent of both boys (63 %) and girls (67 %) had average personal identity. Half of the girls sample (53 %) and only one fourth percent of the boys sample (23 %) had high relational identity, which means compared to boys, girls had high relational identity. Social identity was high among more number of boys (85 %) than girls (62 %). With regard to collective identity, half of the boys sample and one fourth percent of the girls sample had high and average collective identity respectively. From the study it can be concluded that, both boys and girls are equally good at personal identity, more number of girls had high relational identity where as high percent of boys had high social identity and collective identity too.