Identity formation in juvenile delinquents and clinically referred youth |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands;2. Kijvelanden Academy of Research Innovation and Development (KARID, Fivoor), Poortugaal, The Netherlands;1. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, United States;2. Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, United States;3. Associate Professor, UCSF Department of Psychiatry & Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, United States;4. Clinical Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital, United States;5. Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Director of Research, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital, United States |
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| Abstract: | IntroductionLittle is known about how juvenile delinquents and clinically referred youth handle the key developmental task of identity formation.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to compare identity formation in juvenile delinquent and clinically referred boys to identity formation in boys drawn from the general population.MethodMean scores on identity dimensions and membership to identity statuses in ideological (i.e., education) and interpersonal (i.e., relationship with the best friend) domains were compared across groups of juvenile delinquent boys (n = 30), clinically referred boys (n = 21), and boys drawn from the general adolescent population (n = 30).ResultsJuvenile delinquents, but not clinically referred youth, displayed a weaker identity in both the ideological and interpersonal domain than adolescents from the general population.DiscussionIdentity formation among juvenile delinquents deserves more attention from both researchers and clinicians. |
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