Identity Structure Analysis

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Identity Structure Analysis Societal Clinical
Contexts

• Symposium at the 2006 Northern Ireland BPS Annual
  Conference convened by Peter Weinreich,
  University of Ulster

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25th Anniversary of the First ISA Publication

• Weinreich, P. (1980/86/88) Manual for Identity
  Exploration using Personal Constructs. Coventry
  University of Warwick, Economic and Social
  Research Council, Centre for Research in Ethnic
  Relations (2nd ed.).
• Weinreich, P. (1986) The operationalisation of
  identity theory in racial and ethnic relations,
  in J. Rex and D. Mason (Eds.) Theories of Race
  and Ethnic Relations, Cambridge Cambridge
  University Press.

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25th Anniversary of the First ISA Publication

• Liebkind, K. (Ed.) (1989) New Identities in
  Europe Immigrant Ancestry and the Ethnic
  Identity of Youth, Volume 3 of the European
  Science Foundation series "Studies in European
  Migration". London Gower.
• Weinreich, P. and Saunderson, W. (Eds.) (2003)
  Analysing Identity Clinical, Societal and
  Cross-Cultural Applications. London Routledge
  Psychology Press.

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Presentations

• Peter Weinreich, University of Ulster (UUJ)
• Analysing Identity Cross-Cultural, Societal and
  Clinical Contexts
• Richard Pearce, University of Bath
• Monitoring the Adjustment of Expatriate Students
  on Entering an International School
• Wendy Saunderson, University of Ulster (UUC)
• Juggling or Struggling? Lone Mothers, Identity
  and Work-life Balance

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Presentations

• Alison McKenna, University of Ulster (UUJ)
• Identity Structure Analyses of Individuals with
  Clinical Depression and Anxiety
• Anne Malone, University of Ulster (UUJ)
• Identity Structure Analysis as an Approach to
  Personality Disorders

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Presentations

• Katrina Hoy, University of Ulster (UUJ)
• A Case-Study Approach to Explore Identity
  Processes and Structure in Individuals with
  Schizophrenia, using Identity Structure Analysis.
• Cherie Part, University of Ulster (UUJ)
• Identity Processes associated with Aggressive
  Impulsivity in Paranoid Schizophrenia

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Some definitions aspirational identification
(positive)
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Some definitions aspirational identification
(negative)
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Some definitions empathetic identification (as
based in context)
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Some definitions conflicted identification (as
based in context)
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Some definitions overall identity diffusion (as
based in context)
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Some definitions ego-involvement with another

• Ones ego-involvement with another is defined as
  ones overall responsiveness to the other in
  terms of the extensiveness both in quantity and
  strength of the attributes one construes the
  other as possessing.

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Some definitions evaluation of another

• Ones evaluation of another is defined as ones
  overall assessment of the other in terms of the
  positive and negative evaluative connotations of
  the attributes one construes in that other, in
  accordance with ones value system.

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Some definitions structural pressure on a
construct

• The structural pressure on a persons construct
  is defined as the overall strength of the excess
  of compatibilities over incompatibilities between
  the evaluative connotations of attributions one
  makes to each entity by way of the one construct
  and ones overall evaluation of each entity.

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Reference

• Chapter 2 in Weinreich, P. and Saunderson, W.
  (Eds.) (2003) Analysing Identity Clinical,
  Societal and Cross-Cultural Applications. London
  Routledge Psychology Press.