The Relationship between Avoidance and Social Pressure and Prosocial Personality with Identity Crisis in Youth

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Sahar Mahdavi ¹ , Jamal Sadeghi ²

1 - MA Candidate, Department of Psychology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol , Iran

Received: 2022-04-16 Accepted : 2023-07-08 Published : 2023-05-01

Keywords: Youth, Identity Crisis, social character, Avoidance and Social pressure,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to study the relationship between avoidance and social pressure and prosocial personality with identity crisis in the youth.The research method was descriptive-correlational. According to Krejcie and Morgan table with the possibility of incomplete questionnaires, 270 female students were selected by two-stage cluster sampling metho. The research instruments were Ahmadi's Identity Crisis Questionnaire (1997), Watson & Friend (1969) Avoidance, Social Pressure Scale, and Penner (2002) Social-Friendly Personality Questionnaire. The results were analyzed using Pearson correlation analysis and stepwise regression. The results showed that there was a significant negative relationship between prosocial personality and identity crisis and also a significant positive correlation was observed between avoidance and social pressure with identity crisis. Also, avoidance and social pressure and societal personality were able to significantly predict identity crisis. . It seems that paying attention to the personality and avoidance and social pressure of female students can be useful in resolving their identity crisis.