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Identity: A Study Of Existential Vs. Social Anchorage, Paul J. Seymour
Identity: A Study Of Existential Vs. Social Anchorage, Paul J. Seymour
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to assess the identity anchorage of persons in different societal positions.
Four experimental groups were chosen to represent different societal positions, namely, students, musicians, management personnel, and nonmanagement personnel. There were 93 subjects involved in these four groups. Each subject was presented with an adapted version of the Twenty Statements Test and a questionnaire to obtain biographical data. The statements made on the Twenty Statements Test were then placed into one of the following categories: physical characteristics; social roles and institutions; characteristic ways of acting, feeling or responding in social interaction; and, broad nondifferentiating …