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aghajari Z, Atadokht A, Hajloo N, Mousavi M, Abbasi R. (2020). The Role of Agentic Personality, Social capital, Moral Intelligence and Psychological Capital in Predicting Identity States. refahj. 20(78), 75-107.
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Intorduction: According to psychological theories, identity acquisition is influenced by various factors, including psychological factors. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the role of agentic personality, social capital, moral intelligence and psychological capital in identity prediction.
Method: This study is a descriptive and correlation was used in the study. 633 undergraduate students studying in different universities in Tehran were selected by random sampling method in the academic year of 2018-2019 and completed the research tools including Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status II (EOM-EIS-II), Multi-measure Agentic Personality Scale (MAPS), the Social Capital Measurement Questionnaire, Moral Competency Inventory (MCI), and Psychological Capital Intervention (PCI). The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression implementing SPSS-24.
Findings: Findings showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between achievement and moratorium identity states with personality agency, moral intelligence, social capital, and psychological capital. Also, these variables positively and significantly predicted the achievement and moratorium identity states. Conversely, the relationship between identity diffusion and these variables was negative. In relation to foreclosure identity, only social capital and psychological capital were found to be positively and significantly related to this variable.
Discussion: According to the findings of this study, it can be stated that different identity states have different relationships with individual (personality agency, moral intelligence, and psychological capital) and social (social capital) constructs according to different levels of identity crisis and sense of commitment to personal identity.
Method: This study is a descriptive and correlation was used in the study. 633 undergraduate students studying in different universities in Tehran were selected by random sampling method in the academic year of 2018-2019 and completed the research tools including Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status II (EOM-EIS-II), Multi-measure Agentic Personality Scale (MAPS), the Social Capital Measurement Questionnaire, Moral Competency Inventory (MCI), and Psychological Capital Intervention (PCI). The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression implementing SPSS-24.
Findings: Findings showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between achievement and moratorium identity states with personality agency, moral intelligence, social capital, and psychological capital. Also, these variables positively and significantly predicted the achievement and moratorium identity states. Conversely, the relationship between identity diffusion and these variables was negative. In relation to foreclosure identity, only social capital and psychological capital were found to be positively and significantly related to this variable.
Discussion: According to the findings of this study, it can be stated that different identity states have different relationships with individual (personality agency, moral intelligence, and psychological capital) and social (social capital) constructs according to different levels of identity crisis and sense of commitment to personal identity.
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Received: 2019/12/2 | Accepted: 2020/09/22 | Published: 2021/03/14
Received: 2019/12/2 | Accepted: 2020/09/22 | Published: 2021/03/14
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