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Asked 4 December 2013
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Is anyone aware of a short measure (20 items or less) of identity (as theorized by Erikson)?

I want to study identity development in an adolescent population, but I already have many survey items from other measures.

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Dr. Beyers,
I truly appreciate your response. I will be looking into these measures immediately.

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Diana Phooi-Yan Lee
Politeknik Sultan Idris Shah
You can try to search for Umana-Taylor's ethnic identity scale or Phinney's MEIM. Both measures are related to identity. Hope this will help.
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I appreciate suggestions, but I am looking at overall identity formation, not specifically ethnic identity. I appreciate your help, good suggestions for ethnic identity!
Eleonora Brivio
IULM University
Have you looked into James Marcia's work on ego-identity? I think I remember a scale of his based on Erikson's work... not sure if it's still valid as Marcia's work is from the 60's.
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Marcia's work is definitely still relevant, but is a qualitative interview. Adams did build a question are off of it (that is also still widely used) but it is 64 or 32 items.
Wim Beyers
Ghent University
If wanted I can send you two measures: UGIDS based on Marcia's conceptualization, measuring exploration and commitment at global level; 5 items for each scale. Or the DIDS3, an more recent measured developed by Koen Luyckx and colleagues (including myself) measuring five dimensions of identity development with 5 items each: exploration in breadth, exploration in depth, ruminative exploration (a risk factor), commitment making, identification with commitment. This measure is based on Luyckx' et al. theory on identity development along two processes: identity formation (EB, CM) and identity evaluation (ED, IC). RE is considered a risky type of exploration that can undermine whole identity development process. Further info in identity publications on my profile. You can contact me at my ugent.be mail. name.familyname@ugent.be.
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Dr. Beyers,
I truly appreciate your response. I will be looking into these measures immediately.

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