Identity Styles in Teenagers: The Role of Family Cohesion and Flexibility, Emotional Self-Regulatory, and Strategies to Cope Stress

Adolescence is one of the most sensitive stages of every person's life, and significant physical and psychological attention occurs in a person. While all teenagers should try to cope with this change to gain an identity for themselves. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of family cohesion and flexibility, emotional self-regulatory and the strategies to coping stress with identity styles in teenagers. This is descriptive research about correlation. The statistical society of our study is the girl students in second year of high school of Siyahkal in academic year of ۲۰۲۲-۲۰۲۳. According to Morgan chart, ۲۳۴ persons were selected in multistage clustered method. They were selected to reply the Berzonsky’s identity styles questionnaires in teenagers (۱۹۹۲), the Olson’s family cohesion and flexibility questionnaire (۱۹۸۵), Haffman and Kashdan’s emotional styles questionnaire (۲۰۱۰) and Lazarus and Folkman’s strategies to coping stress (۱۹۸۴). The Pearson’s correlation coefficient and statistical methods and the step-to-step regression method were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the family cohesion and flexibility (and its components), emotional self-regulatory (and its components), and the strategies to confront stress (and its components) are the predictors of identity styles in teenagers, and there is a meaningful and positive cohesion at level ۰/۰۱ between them. The results of this study highlight the role of family cohesion and flexibility, emotional self-regulatory and the strategies to coping stress in student’s identity styles.

Keywords:

identity , family cohesion and flexibility , Emotional self- regulatory , coping stress , Teenager