Psycholinguistic features of self-narrative experience of identity crisis in adolescents

Kraieva, Oksana and Starinska, Natalia and Mykhailyuk, Inna and Hoha, Natalia and Klibais, Tetiana (2025) Psycholinguistic features of self-narrative experience of identity crisis in adolescents Bulgarian Journal of Psychiatry, 3 (10). pp. 11-20. ISSN 2367-881X

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Abstract

Background. The research examines how adolescent self-narratives’ psycholinguistic features influence identity crises amid social changes from the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective. The aim of the study was achieved through empirical determination of psycholinguistic features of individual adolescent self-narrative and identification of its possible impact on the development of identity crisis in the context of statistically significant links between self-narrative and identity indicators. Materials and methods. Content analysis of self-narrative, Osgood’s semantic differential, applied psychodiagnostics techniques with the allocation of identity indicators, and relevant statistical analysis, are used. Results. It is found that most subjects use psycholinguistic characteristics of individual self-narrative by emphasizing positive modalities in their self-descriptions. One third of the respondents operates mainly with negative psycholinguistic characteristics of self-narrative, which may indicate a preliminary or pre-actual stage of the identity crisis. It is determined that the status of the achieved positive identity (high consistency of identity) corresponds to the positive characteristics of self-description in the time continuum, adequate self-esteem, balanced personality type, and positive valence of identity. Diffuse identity (low identity coherence) indicates a state of identity crisis in adolescents and is closely associated with very low and unstable self-esteem, emotionally polar and unstable personality type, and neutral or negative valence of identity. Conclusion. The influence of psycholinguistic features of self-narrative on the development of the process of the crisis of adolescent identity was demonstrated. It is noted that the harmonization of psycholinguistic characteristics of individual self-narrative can play a significant role in the formation of a holistic identity at the stage of the identity crisis.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	identity valence; pseudo-identity; psycholinguistic characteristics; self-esteem; personality type; holistic identity
Subjects:	Статті у базах даних > Scopus > У виданнях Q4 Scopus
Divisions:	Факультет психології, соціальної роботи та спеціальної освіти > Кафедра практичної психології
Depositing User:	викладач Тетяна Володимирівна Клібайс
Date Deposited:	19 Sep 2025 07:59
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2025 07:59
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/53128

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