Ego Identity Construction Among Youth In Arbaminch Town

This study was aimed at identifying the ego-identity construction of youth individual sense of commitment and exploration for identity achievement. It tries to identify the experience of these emerging adults, commitment and exploration for identity statuses. Using stratified random sampling and purposive quota sampling technique, a total of 416 (208 male and 208 female) were selected as participants from Arbaminch Town. The revised version II of OMEIS was employed as a means for data collection. Through the use of descriptive statistics, chi-square and ANOVA it was identified that the working youth was highly identity achieved(71.7%) than college students(64.3%); in ideological and interpersonal domains the college youths’ results were significant while in three subdomains (occupation, philosophy of life style and dating) that the working youth results were significant. Also the one way ANOVA analysis showed that there is no variation within group identity status of the working youth (less educated and highly educated) and the three colleges’ youths status (Health science, Pol-technique and Teacher Education

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