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Boundaries: The Relationships among Family Structure, Identity Style, and Psychopathology
Get PDFResearch has long held that family of origin plays a significant, if not critical, role in mental health. The purpose of the present study was to provide theoretical evidence to support the feasibility of a new target for clinical intervention by demonstrating that identity style, the way individuals take in and process identity-relevant information, is a mediating factor between family cohesion and psychopathology. Secondly, this study aimed to provide empirical evidence for identity boundaries, or the cognitive barrier that dictates the assimilation and disposal of identity-relevant information, by linking identity style to one*s ability to differentiate the self from others. A total of 496 university students were surveyed using a self-report battery available via an online research database provided by the author*s institution. Results suggested that individuals adhering to the informational identity style had the highest degrees of self-other differentiation followed by the normative identity style and, finally, the diffuse-avoidant. Further, the diffuse-avoidant identity style (and by extension, diffuse identity boundaries) significantly and fully mediated the relationship between balanced family cohesion and psychopathology. Given that the diffuse-avoidant identity style is linked to a number of maladaptive decision-making and problem-solving strategies, interventions aimed at changing one*s ability to master their environment may have positive implications for the way that they amalgamate their sense of self which may, in turn, lead to improved functioning
Navigating college choice: the influence of parental education, advice source, and anticipated belonging
Get PDFSubmission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo termsThe student, Ravon Pittman, accepted the attached license on 2025-07-20 at 20:32.The student, Ravon Pittman, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2025-07-20 at 20:56.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2025-07-22 at 16:40.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #22669 on 2025-10-20 at 20:15:32This study examined how students' anticipated sense of belonging at prospective postsecondary institutions is associated with their parents’ highest level of education, and whether this relationship is moderated by the source of college advice. Data from a diverse sample of high school students in Illinois (N = 234) were analyzed using linear regression models. Results showed parental education alone did not significantly predict students anticipated belonging. Students who relied on formal advice sources (counselors, teachers, mentors) reported significantly higher anticipated belonging at match schools compared to those who received informal advice (family or peers). However, no significant interaction was found between parental education and advice source. Results highlight the importance of formal advising in strengthening students’ academic self-perception and sense of institutional fit. Implications for reducing college undermatch and expanding equitable access to supportive advising networks are discussed
Depression and derailment: A cyclical model of mental health and perceived identity change
Get PDFDerailment, or the sense that one has gotten “off-course” in terms of who they are and where they are going, has been nominated as a precursor to psychological ills like depressive symptoms. However, what the development of these depressive symptoms implies for continued feelings of derailment remains in question. The present study investigated a potential feedback loop between depression and derailment to explain how these two phenomena may persist through time. College students (N = 939, 63.6% female) were asked to take part in a preregistered, 4-wave longitudinal study over the course of one academic year. An autoregressive latent trajectory model with structured residuals was developed to test the bidirectional associations of these variables at the within-person level, asking whether deviations from one’s mean trajectory on depression can predict downstream deviations from one’s mean trajectory on derailment and vice-versa. Depression and derailment evidenced significant autoregressive stability from one wave to the next, and significant positive covariation within most waves. Depression was found to significantly and positively predict later derailment across all cross-lagged components of the model, thus supporting the hypotheses of the present study. Derailment was found to significantly and negatively predict depression in two of the three cross-lagged components, thus failing to support the hypotheses of the present study. Given some of these unexpected findings, results are discussed with an eye toward future work uncovering potential moderators of the association between derailment and resultant depressive symptoms
The role of parenting and attachment in identity style development
Get PDFDue to the significant relationships between parenting style, attachment, and identity formation found in previous literature, this study investigated the possibility of attachment playing a mediational role in the relationship between parenting and identity style. A total of 264 students from two high schools participated in this study. Although not mediational, significant relationships between maternal responsiveness, attachment, and the normative identity style were found. An outstanding and unexpected finding of this study was that the attachment and responsiveness measurements, although thought to be assessing different variables, are now suspected to be looking at constructs that are almost one-in-the-same. Extending to practical applications, the results of this study could be used to aid programs focused on fostering positive youth development by emphasizing parental interaction, warmth, and support
Derailment and Depression across College: Trajectories of Perceived Identity Change, Adjustment, and Moderators of their Association
No full text233 pagesCollege presents a unique environment for exploring, defining, and refining key developmental assets, like one’s senses of identity and self-direction. Although rich with opportunities for self-discovery, college is also rich with opportunities for risk: the transition to and through college is stressful, often associated with the onset or exacerbation of mental illness. This underscores the need to better understand how the college transition, and the developmental processes often occurring within it, are related to well-being. This study followed 579 students from freshman to senior year of college to examine how derailment, or difficulties reconciling perceived identity change, relates to downstream depressive symptoms. There was insufficient evidence to suggest that derailment in freshman year meaningfully predicted levels of depressive symptoms in senior year. Most notably, however, trait self-reflection in freshman year moderated this association, such that derailment was a risk factor for later depression among those with the lowest tendencies toward self-reflection. In the first observation of its kind, univariate latent growth curve modeling suggested that derailment tended to increase linearly from freshman to senior year, and depressive symptoms were characterized by a significant uptick in distress across the first semester of college that appeared to persist through the end of senior year. Exploratory qualitative analyses, aided by a machine learning tool for text analysis known as Latent Dirichlet Allocation, were also conducted to provide the field with its first topographical understanding of derailment. This led to the discovery of five themes associated with students’ derailment experiences that may have implications for the way derailment interfaces with mental health: Insight into Personal Changes (e.g., progression, regression, and stability), Overcoming Challenges (e.g., growing as a result of hardship), Evaluating Clarity of Direction (e.g., optimism, confidence, certainty, or anxiety surrounding one’s path or lack thereof), Contending with Major Turbulence (e.g., mental illness, death, poverty), and The Path (e.g., objective reports of changes in career trajectory). With derailment representing a novel psychological construct that synthesizes developmental, social, and clinical fields, these findings can inform interventions aimed at promoting healthy transitions to adulthood
The Role of Parenting and Attachment in Identity Style Development
Get PDFThe present study set investigates the role of the parent-child relationship in identity formation using a sample of 264 students collected from two high schools in the central Florida area. Maternal responsiveness fosters both the informational and normative identity style, as well as positive attachment. Such results suggest that a warm and loving maternal figure allows children to feel safe in their environment, which encourages exploration. Furthermore, positive attachment was found to significantly predict a normative identity style. Despite both responsiveness and attachment independently predicting a normative identity style, issues were raised in regards to multicollinearity of the variables utilized in this study. That is, although the measures claim to be measuring two different constructs, attachment and responsiveness do not act differently statistically
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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