Abstract
This study examined 5 contexts (home, leisure time, workplace, lessons, and friendship) in terms of their importance for the identities of 152 single working women. The results showed a big difference in the importance of "home" rather than "workplace" between women who work continuously and those who leave work. This result suggests that the declining number of women who see "home" as important is related to the contemporary increase in working women. Interestingly, although contexts seen as important differed for each individual, there were no differences in their identity scores in such contexts. Finally, it seems that context-specific factors including identity in the context of "home" and "workplace" relate to life course differences. In future research, an examination is needed of the complex relationships between factors such as context-specific identities, their influences on identity formation, and life course differences.
