DEVELOPMENT AND PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF THE EGO IDENTITY PROCESS QUESTIONNAIRE

A new self-report identity inventory was developed that avoids some of the shortcomings of previous measures and offers the advantages of sh ort completion time, objective scoring, and separate, continuous explo ration and commitment scores. The Ego Identity Process Questionnaire c onsists of 32 items which assess the dimensions of exploration and com mitment in eight areas: occupation, religion, politics, values, family , friendships, dating, and sex roles. Three samples of college student s were utilized. Evidence was presented of moderately high reliability and of construct and concurrent validation via confirmatory factor an alysis, association with Marcia's interview, and relationships with pe rsonality characteristics.