Identity Statuses as Developmental Trajectories: A Five ...

EMPIRICAL RESEARCHI dentity Statuses as Developmental trajectories : A Five-WaveLongitudinal Study in Early-to-Middle and Middle-to-LateAdolescentsWim Meeus Rens van de Schoot Loes Keijsers Susan BranjeReceived: 23 June 2011 / Accepted: 3 November 2011 The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at study tested whether Marcia s originalidentity Statuses of achievement, moratorium, early closure(a new label for foreclosure), and diffusion, can be con-sidered Identity status trajectories . That is, we examinedwhether these Statuses are distinct and relatively stable,over-time configurations of commitment strength, levels ofin-depth exploration of present commitments, and consid-eration of alternative commitments.

identity formation, Meeus developed the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS; Crocetti et al. 2008). As was the case with Marcia’s original dimensions of

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