Psychological Identity and Family Upbringing

Sociological Influence of Family Upbringing Patterns on Couples' Common Life Relationships and Behaviors

 The purpose of this study is to explain the impact of family upbringing patterns on couples' common life relationships and behaviors sociologically. The statistical population of this study was couples in Farashband, a county in Fars Province. The sample size of the study was, estimated using the Cochran formula, 372 persons and in fact 186 couples. The research method was survey and data were...

Thesis Identity Integration and Family Ethnic Socialization as M Oderators of Acculturation Stress and Psychological Outcomes

Subjectivity and Identity: Semiotics as Psychological Explanation

Semiotic theorists including Umberto Eco have recently sought to found epistemology on a cognitive interpretation of sign-usage. Other psychological models of ‘identity’ and/or ‘subjectivity’ or of individual ‘subjects’ have also been re-interpreted in general semiotic terms. It is argued that these analyses are frequently reductionist, circular, or merely re-describe the psychological phenomen...

Comparing psychological and sociological approaches to identity: identity status, identity capital, and the individualization process.

Psychologists have been studying identity processes at the intrapsychic level that resemble what sociologists have noted at the macro-societal level. Specifically, using the identity capital model introduced in previous issues of this journal (Côté, Journal of Adolescence, 19, 419-430; 20, 421-437), we explore a link between the psychologically oriented identity status paradigm, and the sociolo...

Ideologies of Gender and Sexuality: the Interface between Family Upbringing and Nursing Education1

This study is based on the assumption that subjectification through sexuality driven by gender ideologies during childhood and adolescence is closely related to the dominant discourse that interdicts sexuality and influences the construction of nurses’ professional identities. This study’s objective was to identify in the nurses’ testimonies aspects of the process of subjectification through se...