Value Predictors of Current and Prospective Family Identity in Adolescents with Various Developmental Trajectories

The article presents the results of an empirical study aimed at searching the value predictors of current and prospective family identity in adolescents with different trajectories of transition to adulthood. The study participants were 488 adolescents aged 13–18, demonstrating trajectories of confident, postmodern and infantile transition to adulthood, as well as an uncertain trajectory of transition to adulthood. Empirical data was collected using the "Who am I? Twenty sentences" by M. Kuhn and T. McPartland, a short version of the Value Questionnaire of Sh. Schwartz and a modified methodology for studying self-esteem by T.V. Dembo and S.Ya. Rubinstein. The results suggest that in the structure of adolescent identity, the current family identity prevails over the prospective one. The value of benevolence is a positive predictor of indicators of both current and prospective family identity. The value of self-direction is a negative predictor of the indicator of current family identity, the value of hedonism is a prospective family identity. The negative impact of the value of self-direction on the current family identity is most clearly in the subgroup of adolescents with a postmodern trajectory of transition to adulthood, the negative impact of the value of hedonism on the prospective family identity is in the subgroup of adolescents with confident transition to adulthood.