現代青年における自己の多元性の分類とアイデンティティの関連

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Previous studies have highlighted that the tendency to behave differently according to situations is advancing along with changes in social conditions in the modern age. Moreover, such a tendency is particularly pronounced among adolescents. In addition, scholars have suggested that a fragmented and pluralistic self that behaves differently depending on the situation is more likely to adapt well in the modern age compared with a single, consistent self regardless of the situation. Thus, this study developed the Self-Plurality Scale and combined it with the Sense of Authenticity Scale to classify self-plurality among adolescents in terms of situational, strategic, and masked aspects. The results indicate that adolescents' selves were classified into four groups, namely, pluralistic natural group, pluralistic masked group, unitary self group, and pluralistic self group. Furthermore, the results demonstrated that the pluralistic self group displayed the lowest sense of identity among the four groups, whereas the unitary self group achieved the highest sense of identity. However, the pluralistic natural group, which has a high sense of self-invariance and a sense of authenticity despite their multiple selves, formed an identity comparable in varying degrees to the unitary self group, which is generally considered healthy.