Self, Ego, and Identity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Self

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Self, Adult Development, and the Theory of Biography and Transformation

      • Gil G. Noam

      Pages 3-29

   3. A Social-Cognitive Account of the Self’s Development

      • Anthony G. Greenwald

      Pages 30-42

   4. The Construction and Conservation of the Self: James and Cooley Revisited

      • Susan Harter

      Pages 43-70

   5. The Adolescent Self-Concept in Social Context

      • Daniel Hart

      Pages 71-90

   6. The Embedded Self: I and Thou Revisited

      • Ruthellen Josselson

      Pages 91-106

3. Ego

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. The “New Look” at the Imaginary Audience and Personal Fable: Toward a General Model of Adolescent Ego Development

      • Daniel K. Lapsley, Kenneth Rice

      Pages 109-129

   3. Integrity and Aging: Ethical, Religious, and Psychosocial Perspectives

      • F. Clark Power, Ann R. Power, John Snarey

      Pages 130-150

   4. The Relationship Between Ego and Moral Development: A Theoretical Review and Empirical Analysis

      • Loren Lee, John Snarey

      Pages 151-178

   5. Ego and Ideology: A Critical Review of Loevinger’s Theory

      • John M. Broughton, Marta K. Zahaykevich

      Pages 179-208

4. Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. Common Processes Underlying Ego Identity, Cognitive/Moral Development, and Individuation

      • James E. Marcia

      Pages 211-225

   3. Identity and the Development of the Self

      • Augusto Blasi

      Pages 226-242

   4. Self-Theorists, Identity Status, and Social Cognition

      • Michael D. Berzonsky

      Pages 243-262

   5. To Be or Not: Self and Authenticity, Identity and Ambivalence

      • Andrew J. Weigert

      Pages 263-281

5. Back Matter

   Pages 283-294

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In the midst of the "cognitive revolution," there has been a veritable ex­ plosion of interest in topics that have been long banished from academic consideration under the intellectual hegemony of behaviorism. Most notably, notions of self, ego, and identity are reasserting themselves as fundamental problems in a variety of research traditions within psychol­ ogy and the social sciences. Theoretical models, review articles, edited vol­ umes, and empirical work devoted to these constructs are proliferating at a dizzying rate. This clearly attests to the renascent interest in these topics, the vitality of these research paradigms, and the promise that these constructs hold for explaining fundamental aspects of human development and behavior. Although the renewed academic interest in self, ego, and identity is obviously an exciting and healthy development, there is always the tenden­ cy for research to take on a parochial character. When boundaries are erected among different theoretical perspectives, when empirical findings are viewed in isolation, when theories are too sharply delimited and segre­ gated from other domains of behavior, then what may seem like progres­ sive, healthy, and content-increasing tendencies in a research paradigm may turn out to be, on closer inspection, merely an inchoate thrashing about. Fortunately there is an internal dynamic to scientific investigation that tends to combat this degenerating tendency. There is something about the rhythm of science that bids us to transcend parochial theoretical in­ terests and seek the most general theory.

• Cognitive Revolution
• Individuation
• Self
• authenticity
• behavior
• character
• cognition
• development
• health
• identity
• research
• revolution
• science
• traditions
• transformation

• Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

  Daniel K. Lapsley

• Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

  F. Clark Power

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