Study of hope discourse in adolescents with identity achievement

The purpose of this study was to identify the components of hope discourse in adolescents with identity achievement after passing through the adolescent crisis. The present research has been conducted with a qualitative approach and the descriptive phenomenology of data collection. The statistical population included accessible adolescents who wished to participate in this study, also sampling was done purposefully and the sample was adolescents who met the inclusion criteria. Data collection tools include; the second version of the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status (Bennion and Adams, 1986), as well as in-depth interview, data collection continued until data saturation, in the end, the number of participants in the study reached 12, the data analysis was coded in three steps. The findings of this research show that hope discourse components consist of two components; identify purpose and actualization purpose, also five sub-components include dynamism, orientation, strategy capability, action capability, and optimism. According to the results of this research, can say that the discourse of hope is the background or predisposing of identity achievement because adolescents with the experience of the space of hope discourse, begin a dynamic exploration and with a commitment to it explore the actualization of the goal.