Lit.

Review

Research
Question/Hypothesis

Methods

Discussion

List at least 5 studies,

the findings and the
FULL reference

Write what you think

the research question
is

Write the number of

participants,
procedure, analysis

Write three main

points that the author
brings up

66 Participants

Students
may engage in identity
exploration because
an environmental
event provided them
with a trigger
experience or because
they are
already oriented
towards exploration

The current study

describes
a specific intervention
component within the
larger project that
focused on the subject
domain of literature in
Junior High school.

Procedure:
Phenomological
Analysis

-they may engage

because
they feel supported
and safe in the social
environment or when
not feeling very safe;
-they may engage in
exploratory actions

because
of scaffolding they
receive from teachers
and peers or employ
Exploratory strategies
they are already
familiar with on their
own.
What the findings of
the current study
suggest is that
educators
can design educational
activities with the aim
of promoting trigger
Experiences, sense of
safety, and scaffolding
of exploratory actions.
Within schools is
where students find
their identity (Erikson,
1968).
Identity exploration
often causes anxiety.
(Kroger 2004).
Identity formation in
others (2006; Kaplan &
2003; Plum).
Different in selfconcerns and
background

(Grotevant, 1987).
Adolescents feel
secure to explore a
different identity but
lack the way on how to
engage (Flum &
Blustein, 2000;
Vangrick et al, 2010).

Kroger, J. (2004). Identity in adolescence: The balance between self and other (3rd ed.).
New York: Routledge.
Erikson, E. H. (1968). Identity: Youth and crisis. New York: Norton.
Kaplan, A., & Flum, H. (2006, July). Facilitating an exploratory orientation in school.
Paper presented at the 4th international biennial SELF research conference, Ann
Arbor, MI.

Flum, H., & Kaplan, A. (2003). Training Jewish and Arab school counselors in Israel:
Exploring a professional identity in a conflicted society. In D. M. McInerney & S.

Van Etten (Eds.), Research on sociocultural influences of motivation and learning.

Sociocultural influences and teacher education programs (Vol. 3, pp. 135163).

Grotevant, H. D. (1987). Toward a process model of identity formation. Journal of

Adolescent Research, 2, 203222.
Harrell-Levy, M. K., & Kerpelman, J. L

Flum, H., & Blustein, D. L. (2000). Reinvigorating the study of vocational exploration:
A framework for research. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 56, 380404

Vangrick, R., Kaplan, A., & Flum, H. (2010, March). Adolescents self-exploration in the
school context. Poster presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for
Research on Adolescence, Philadelphia, PA, USA.