Identity, self-sufficiency and disability in the context of educational and vocational activity

• Authors: Konrad Piotrowski , Anna Izabela Brzezińska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study focused on relations between identity and sense of self-sufficiency. These relations were analysed in the context of educational and vocational activity. 204 persons without disabilities and 230 persons with different kinds of disability participated in the study. Participants were divided into three groups: (1) 18-24-year-olds – students, (2) 25-30–yearolds – unemployed and (3) 25-30–year-olds – employed. The results revealed that unemployed people have significant problems with identity formation. This group obtained the highest scores on ruminative exploration and the lowest scores on the scales of commitment making and identification with commitment. Self-sufficiency proved to be a moderator of the relations between educational/vocational activity on the one hand and exploration in breadth and exploration in depth on the other hand. In students, level of exploration was high in individuals with a high sense of self-sufficiency whereas in the unemployed strong exploration was observed in the group with low sense of self-sufficiency. The need to conduct studies where participants are recruited from populations which seldom attract researchers’ interest, such as the unemployed and people of low social status, is also noted.

Keywords

EN

commitment making; disability; educational activity; exploration in breadth; exploration in depth; identification with commitment; identity; ruminative exploration; self-sufficiency; vocational activity

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 160-168

Contributors

author

Konrad Piotrowski

• Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities

author

Anna Izabela Brzezińska

• Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10059-011-0021-y