He currently serves on the Governing Council for the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA) and is a board member of the committee Cultural Diversity (NIP).įons (A) J. His general research focuses on themes of identity as a broad construct and its relation with acculturation, inclusion, diversity, and psychosocial functioning across cultures, within different life domains and lifespans. During the production of this book, he also held an Assistant Professorship at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a Visiting Professorship at Ghent University in Belgium. Adams is currently an Assistant Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. It provides insight into how identity in non-Western groups and contexts may both be informed by and may inform Western theoretical perspectives.īyron G. This book is intended for cultural or cross-cultural academics, practitioners, educators, social workers, postgraduate students, undergraduate students, and scholars interested in studying identity. The contributions (a) examine different aspects of identity (e.g., personal identity, social identity, online identity) as either independent or interrelated constructs (b) consider the associations of these constructs with aspects of intergroup relations, acculturative processes, and/or psychological well-being (c) document the advancement in research on identity in underrepresented groups, contexts, and regions such as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South America and (d) evaluate different approaches to the study of identity and the implications thereof.

This edited volume investigates identity from primarily a non-Western perspective by studying non-Western contexts and non-Western, minority, or immigrant groups living in Western contexts. Only recently has there been more of a conscious effort to study identity in non-Western (or non-WEIRD) contexts. Identity is a construct strongly rooted and still predominantly studied in Western (or WEIRD Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) contexts (e.g., North American and Western European).

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