Identity vs. Infantilism in University Students
https://doi.org/10.21603/sibscript-2025-27-5-865-876
Abstract
Self-identity studies have become a mainstream research direction in the epoch of postmodernism, cultural diversity, uncertainty, and social shifts. However, the correlation between self-identity and other personal traits remains understudied. Self-identification is an age-specific process: an adolescent moves from a modelbased self-identification to a value-based one. In this regard, university students are a crucial social stratum that represents the national development potential. It is a socially relevant task to study their readiness for responsibility and community involvement. This research featured the correlation between self-identity and social infantilism in university students. It involved 154 students of Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo. The methods included E. L. Soldatova’s Structure of Ego Identity, M. Rokeach’s Value Survey, and A. A. Seregin’s Infantilism Questionnaire. Identity proved to correlate with both social infantilism and value orientations. Emotional maturity and value selfidentity are important for the development of identity system in adolescence.
About the Authors
Olga A. Braun
Kemerovo State University
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
Kemerovo
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Mikhail G. Arkuzin
Kemerovo State University
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
Kemerovo
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