Watch out, here I grow!: a dynamic systems perspective on the contribution of

Abstract

This project deals with the underlying processes and mechanisms of identity and autonomy development in adolescent girls. The basic question of the project is: how do day-to-day experiences, such as conflicts, shape and form the process of identity development? How do emotions, thoughts and behaviors in real-time relate to the more abstract concepts of identity and autonomy? The project contains two important aims; one is theoretical in nature and deals with the conceptualization of identity on both time-scales. Second, in our empirical work we try to figure out ways of gathering and analyzing the data in ways that maintain the dynamic and idiosyncratic nature of developmental processes.