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Abstract
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Objectives: Many psychological studies of adolescent identity or resilience have been published in Japan. Questionnaire methods which are developed to measure identity or resilience are mainly used in the researches but the validity of concurrent use of identity scale and resilience scale has not been examined in any detail. The aim of this study is to investigate whether we can distinguish resilience from identity by quantitative methods or not.
Methods: 337 university students in Japan (137 men and 200 women) 19-23 years old, mean age 20.12, completed two kinds of questionnaires.
1) Multidimensional Ego Identity Scale (MEIS; Tani F., 2001; 20 items): This scale constructed by 4 factors: (1) Self-Sameness, Continuity; (2) Self Identity; (3) Interpersonal Identity; (4) Psychosocial Identity.
2) Adolescent Resilience Scale (ARS; Oshio A., et al., 2002; 21 items): This scale constructed by 3 factors: (1) Novelty Seeking; (2) Emotional Regulation; (3) Positive Future Orientation.
Results: There were low-moderate positive correlations between the factor scores of MEIS and ARS (r=.311-.672). Then, we used Structural Equation Modeling for checking the correlational coefficients between ‘identity’ and ‘resilience’ as potential variables. We found a very high positive correlation between them (r=.846). The goodness of fit of the identified model was generally good (χ^2=66.990, df=13, p=.000, RMSEA=.111, CFI=.931, TLI=.888, SRMR=.045).
Conclusion: Each correlation coefficient between the observational variables was not high, so we could regard identity and resilience as different concepts from this view point. But the result of Structural Equation Modeling suggested that there is a certain common factor between identity and resilience which were measured by psychological questionnaire and that it was hard to distinguish resilience from identity. From the above, we have to administer quality studies to investigate the relation between identity and resilience.
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