THE PLACE OF EMOTION IN IDENTITY

Two studies are presented that examine the place of emotion in self-co nstruct models. The first study (N = 20 female subjects; age range: 15 to 25 years) presents the three categories of adolescent identity typ es produced with the self-construct models: connected, contracted, and expanded. The second study (N = 49 male and female subjects; age rang e: 10 to 17 years) verifies that the contracted and expanded categorie s are more typical of adolescents than of children or adults. Contract ed models of adolescent identity do not contain active negative emotio n. Both the connected and expanded models contain both negative and po sitive emotion, but the expanded models contain more negative. Within the identity constructs, there is an indication of emotional change ac companying identity change in adolescence.