... lives. This process would naturally encourage movement along this status continuum, optimally reaching the achieved status, where adolescents have progressively shown commitment to a specific identity. However, critical research (Cote, 2006) has proposed that Marcia's four identity statuses do not naturally operate in a developmental continuum. There has been considerable research over the last couple ... of decades examining the developmental continuum of Marcia's identity statuses. In a meta-analysis (Kroger et al, 2010) the developmental patterns of identity status change during ad...

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