Handbook of Identity Theory and Research, 2 Pts.

Volume I: Structures and Processes.- 1. Introduction: Toward an Integrative View of Identity; V.L. Vignoles, S.J. Schwartz, K. Luyckx.- Personal and Developmental Perspectives.- 2. The Identity Statuses: Origins, Meanings, and Interpretations; J. Kroger, J.E. Marcia.- 3. A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Identity Construction; M.D. Berzonsky.- 4. Processes of Personal Identity Formation and Evaluation; K. Luyckx, S.J. Schwartz, L. Goossens, W. Beyers, L. Missotten.- 5. Narrative Identity; D.P. McAdams.- 6. Possible Identities; D. Oyserman, L. James.-Social and Contextual Perspectives.- 7. The Relational Self; S. Chen, H. Boucher, M.W. Kraus.- 8. Discourse and Identity Construction; M. Bamberg, A. De Fina, D. Schiffrin.- 9. Group Identities: The Social Identity Perspective; R. Spears.- 10. The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective and Identity Theory; R.T. Serpe, S. Stryker.- 11. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Identity; P.B. Smith.- 12. Identity Construction in Socio-Historical Context; I. Burkitt.- 13. Globalization and Cultural Identity; L.A. Jensen, J.J. Arnett, J. McKenzie.- Well-Being, Needs and Motives.- 14. Dynamics of Identity: Between Self-Enhancement and Self-Assessment; A.P. Gregg, C. Sedikides, J.E. Gebauer.- 15. High Self-Esteem: Multiple Forms and their Outcomes; W.L. Heppner, M.H. Kernis.- 16. Eudaimonic Identity Theory: Identity as Self-Discovery; A.S. Waterman.- 17. When is Identity Congruent with the Self? A Self-Determination Theory Perspective; B. Soenens, M. Vansteenkiste.- 18. Identity Motives; V.L. Vignoles.

Volume II: Domains and Categories.- Moral and Spiritual Domains.- 19. Moral Identity; S.A. Hardy, G. Carlo.- 20. Values, Personal Identity, and the Moral Self; S.A. Hitlin.- 21. Spiritual Identity: Individual Perspectives; D.A. MacDonald.- 22. Spiritual Identity: Contextual Perspectives; E.C. Roehlkepartain, P.L. Benson, P.C. Scales.- Family, Gender, and Sexuality.- 23. Family Processes and Identity; E. Scabini, C. Manzi.- 24.

Seth J. Schwartz is Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in the United States.  He received his master's degree in family and child sciences from Florida State University, and his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Florida International University.  His research focuses on identity, broadly defined, including both personal and cultural identity; on acculturation, ethnicity, and cultural adaptation; on parenting and parent-adolescent relationships; and the effects of identity and family processes on positive and negative adolescent and young adult psychosocial and health outcomes. Koen Luyckx is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.  He received his master's degree in psychology and his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Catholic University of Leuven.  His primary research interests are personal identity processes; the transition to adulthood; parenting, parent-adolescent conflict, and parent-adolescent relationships; psychosocial adaptation to being afflicted with a chronic illness; coping; burn-out and engagement at the workplace; and long-term development of psychosocial indices and interdependencies across childhood and adolescence.Vivian L. Vignoles is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. He received his first degree in sociology and psychology from University of Bristol, and his Ph.D. in social psychology from University of Surrey. His primary research interests are in self and identity processes and cross-cultural psychology, especially the interplay of cultural, contextual and motivational influences on identity construction, as well as combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and developing a better understanding of the relationship between individual and social representation processes.

"As a researcher, I have already found it to be a worthy and indispensible reference. Teachers and students will use it as a classroom text--I suggest that no better text exists for an in-depth, graduate-level course on identity theory and research--whether in its entirety or in utilizing select chapters! And practitioners and clinicians will find it helpful in gaining a better understanding of some of the issues faced by their clients. The editors claim that one of their main goals for the handbook "is to ... reveal parallels and areas of complementarity among the disparate streams of theory and research that have emerged within the larger field of identity studies" (p. 13). They accomplish this goal thoroughly and in the process provide an essential piece of the bridge connecting the different areas of identity studies, laying the foundation for important advances in the years ahead." Brien K. Ashdown PsycCRITIQUES, April 18, 2012, Vol. 57, Release 16, Article 5