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Who Do You Want to Be Like? Factors Influencing Early Adolescents’ Selection of Accessible and Inaccessible Role Models

Author(s)
Strasser-Burke, Nora  
Symonds, Jennifer  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11339
Date Issued
2019-10-14
Date Available
2020-04-07T11:49:29Z
Abstract
This study investigates the impact of accessible and inaccessible role models on early adolescents’ conceptions of their identities. Accessible role models have regular direct interactions with adolescents, while inaccessible role models like celebrities do not. This investigation was based within the context of a broader educational intervention targeting educational resilience of school students by prompting them to interact with material drawn from outstanding Irish career role models. Data were collected by interviewing 15 students and analyzing the transcripts thematically. Results revealed that adolescents mostly selected role models perceived as emotionally available, relatable, and successful, within proximal contexts. These accessible role models gave adolescents behavioral cues on overcoming difficulties and attaining success. Adolescents selected inaccessible role models to scaffold future selves, based on how the role models’ life stories connected personally to their lives. This signals how adolescents select and use different types of role models in their identity formation.
Sponsorship
Irish Research Council
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
SAGE
Journal
Journal of Early Adolescence
Volume
40
Issue
7
Start Page
914
End Page
935
Copyright (Published Version)
2019 the Authors
Subjects

Identity

Role models

Adolescence

Social disadvantage

Interviews

DOI
10.1177/0272431619880619
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0272-4316
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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