Identity Status of Youth

The investigator adopted an exploratory design to appraise the Identity Status of Youth in the age ambit group of 21 to 24 years.Marcia's theoretical identity status comprising four identity status, namely Identity Achievement, Identity Moratorium, Identity Foreclosure and Identity Diffusion was used.A total of 494 youth within the age of 21-24 years was randomly selected as the study population.Objective Measure of Ego-Identity Status (OM-EIS), was used for identifying the identity status of the selected Youth.Results shows that 41.49 percent of the selected Youth have had achieved their Identity.Men's mean score in identity achievement and the mean score of women in identity foreclosure was significantly higher compared to their counterparts.The Youth in the age group of 22 years procured a higher mean score in identity achievement, and the variation was statistically significant.The family type was statistically significant for the identity diffusion status with the mean score of joint family youth having an augmented score.The ordinal position analysis states that the Youth without siblings obtained significantly lower score compared to the Youth with one or more siblings.Hence, this study on identity status would help to identify the identity status of Youth.