The relationship between identity styles with emotional, social, and educational adjustment in high school students

Adjustment is currently among the most important signs of mental health in adolescents. We aimed to investigate the relationship between identity styles with emotional, social, and educational adjustment in high school students. The study population consisted of male and female high school students in the academic year 94-95 in the city of Kermanshah that 282 persons (160 girls and 122 boys) were selected in the first, second and third randomly using multi cluster sampling. The instruments of the study included the Identity Style Questionnaire and the students adjustment Scale. Multiple regression analysis showed that identity style was able to significantly predict the emotional, social and academic adjustment of the adolescents. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between informational identity style with social and educational adjustment, but there is no significant relationship between informational identity style and emotional adjustment. The results also show that there is a significant relationship between the normative identity style and avoidance identity style with emotional, social, and educational adjustment in students.The finding highlight the crucial role of identity styles in emotional, social, and academic adjustment in adolescents. Adolescents who have normative style and informational style have a higher level of emotional, social and academic adjustment.