Is There a Quest for Identity
Is There a Quest for Identity
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是否有对身份的追求
DOI：
10.1111/j.1533-8525.1975.tb00934.x
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发表时间：
1975
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
R. Turner
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作者：
R. Turner
人们普遍认为，今天的人们迫切需要寻求身份，而利他主义和工作已经被放弃抑制和获得亲密关系所取代，成为自我发现的可靠途径。通过对洛杉矶大都市区成年人的调查以及对加州大学洛杉矶分校、两所澳大利亚大学和一所英国大学的学生进行的问卷调查中的问题，对这些前提进行了初步的检查。在洛杉矶，即使是最年轻、受教育程度最高的成年人，也很少有人承认自己对“我到底是谁”这个问题有任何关注。尽管四个样本中的大多数大学生都这样做了。成年人和学生都最经常地赞同利他主义，最不经常地赞同冲动释放，而中间频率的亲密关系是自我发现的途径。他们对工作作为自我发现的媒介的评价差异最大。所有的观察都只适用于自我意识的身份搜索。
It is widely assumed that people today experience an imperative quest for identity, and that altruism and work have been displaced as credible routes to self-discovery by the abandonment of inhibition and the attainment of intimacy. A preliminary examination of these premises is made through questions included in a survey of adults in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and in questionnaires administered to students at UCLA, two Australian universities, and one British university. Very few adults in Los Angeles, even in the youngest and most highly educated brackets, acknowledge any preoccupation with the question, “Who am I really?,” though most university students in the four samples do. Both adults and students endorse altruism most frequently, impulse-release least frequently, and intimacy with intermediate frequency as routes to self-discovery. They differ most in their evaluation of work as a medium for self-discovery. All observations apply only to a self-conscious search for identity.