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Young Adults' Identity Exploration: Privacy Management and Parent-child Communication on Topics of Career, Religion, and Politics

Butauski, Maria
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1462269033

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2016, MA, Kent State University, College of Communication and Information / School of Communication Studies.
This study aimed to highlight the intersections two perspectives, privacy and identity, to explore how young adults share information regarding their identity development with parents across three different areas thought to be central to ego identity development: career, religion, and politics. Parental behaviors perceived as supportive were positively correlated with more openness and less topic avoidance across all three topics (career, religion, politics), while parental behaviors perceived as interference or neglect was correlated to less openness and more topic avoidance across the topics addressed. Additionally, young adults' levels of identity exploration and commitment were investigated as predictors of privacy behaviors. Significant differences between levels of exploration and commitment were found. The investigation provides validation of a new privacy scale measuring interpersonal openness, offers a new way to assess identity exploration and commitment levels, and highlights the relationship between identity exploration and commitment and privacy management.
Mei-Chen Lin, PhD (Advisor)
Jeffrey T. Child, PhD (Committee Member)
Janet Meyer, PhD (Committee Member)
93 p.
Communication; Families and Family Life
privacy management, career, religion, politics, young adults

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  • Butauski, M. (2016). Young Adults' Identity Exploration: Privacy Management and Parent-child Communication on Topics of Career, Religion, and Politics [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1462269033

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Butauski, Maria. Young Adults' Identity Exploration: Privacy Management and Parent-child Communication on Topics of Career, Religion, and Politics. 2016. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1462269033.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Butauski, Maria. "Young Adults' Identity Exploration: Privacy Management and Parent-child Communication on Topics of Career, Religion, and Politics." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1462269033

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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