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A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Teen Years
A useful resource for understanding and effectively parenting adolescents.
( http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/behavior/adolescence.html )
An Adolescent Talks about Self Esteem
Read an essay on self-esteem contributed by a 17-year-old.
( http://www.colorado.edu/journals/standards/V6N1/EDUCATION/paiz.html )
An Intercultural Approach in Psychology: Cultural Contact and Identity
Read a fascinating paper by Jean Phinney published in Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin.
( http://my.fit.edu/~gabrenya/cultural/readings/Phinney.pdf )
Concepts of Person and Self
Extensive links to web sites that explore philosophical and psychological ideas about the person and self.
( http://philosophy.cah.ucf.edu/ )
Erik Erikson
An interesting biographical sketch of the man who developed the theory of psychosocial development and the concept of the identity crisis.
( http://www.nndb.com/people/151/000097857/ )
Ethnic Identity and Adolescence
Explore this web site to read about many aspects of developing an ethnic identity.
( http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/CGuanipa/ethnic.htm )
Ethnic Identity Research
This connection will take you to the quickstart guide for research on ethnic identity provided by the Cecil H. Green Library at Stanford University. It lists many different encyclopedias, indexes, and other reference works of value in this research.
( http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/adams/shortcu/ethi.html )
Exploring Ethnic Identities
Explore this web site to read about many aspects of developing an ethnic identity.
( http://xroads.virginia.edu/~YP/ethnic.html )
Hazel Markus Home Page
The home page of Professor Hazel Rose Markus provides information about her background, her research, and her many areas of interest, including possible selves, self construals, and self-schemas.
( http://www.stanford.edu/~hazelm/ )
Identity as a Theory of Oneself
An interesting paper that covers a wide range of identity theories, including those of Erik Erikson and James Marcia.
( http://www.piaget.org/GE/1998/GE-26-3.html )
International Society for Self and Identity
This scholarly association focuses on improving the scientific study of the self. Includes links to related sites.
( http://www.issiweb.org/ )
Measuring the Big Five Personality Factors
A good overview of Costa and McCrae's Big Five Personality factors and how to measure the five factors.
( http://www.uoregon.edu/~sanjay/bigfive.html )
National Association for Self-Esteem
At the website of NASE to learn what self-esteem is as well as some of the common misconceptions about self-esteem. Explore the site to find helpful resources, quotes, materials and much more.
( http://www.self-esteem-nase.org/ )
Pathways from Infancy to Adolescence: Australian Temperament Project 1983-2000
Expands on information about the interaction between temperament and personality from an Australian study of adolescents, noting how personality at age 16 can be predicted from early temperament, and looking at the relationship between temperament and personality with later behaviors, such as depression, substance abuse, and eating problems.
( http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/resreport4/11.html )
Riding the Roller Coaster of Emotions
An interesting summary of research by Dr. Reed Larson on the emotional ups and downs of adolescents.
( http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Riding_Roller/ )
Society for Research on Identity Formation
An excellent resource for articles published on identity formation and also for several measures of identity formation.
( http://w3.fiu.edu/srif/ )







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