1997 Volume 45 Issue 3 Pages 254-262
This study examined the relationship between ego identity and anthropophobic tendency in adolescence from the point of view of individual-relational self conflict. Individual-relational self conflict means the conflict between individual self and relational self in Japanese socio-cultural environment based on the interdependent view of self in identity crisis. Identity crisis (stage V) with individual-relational self conflict would cause anthropophobic tendency, which would influence the problem of intimacy (stage VI) in identity crisis. And also autonomy (stage II) would influence both identity crisis and anthropophobic tendency. To examine this hypothesis, a covariance structure analysis was carried out. The results showed that all the causal coefficients were significant and the goodness of fit index of this model was high enough. These results suggested that identity crisis with individual-relational self conflict would cause anthropophobic tendency and this relation would be rooted in the sense of autonomy on stage II.
