Kyle Eichas is Professor of Psychology at Tarleton State University in Waco, Texas, USA. His scholarly interests include outreach research and the development of community-supported interventions to promote positive human development.

James E. Côté is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is the founding editor of Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, associate editor of The Journal of Adolescence, and the author or co-author of ten other books.

Charles G. Levine was Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Among other publications, he co-authored several articles and a book with Lawrence Kohlberg, Moral Stages: A Current Formulation and a Response to Critics.

Preface to the New Edition xiv PART I Philosophical and Conceptual Roots of the Identity Question 1 1 From Ageless Questions to Current Theories 3 2 Culture and History: How Current Experiences Differ From the Past 26 3 A Social Psychology of Identities and Their Formation 51 PART II Late Modernity: Contextual Adaptations to Individualization Processes 75 4 Moral Reasoning: A Relational Basis of Individualized Identities 77 5 Proactivity: Agency in Identity Formation 102 6 Identity Capital: Strategic Adaptions to Late-Modern Societies 125 PART III The Transition to Adulthood: Developmental Contextualism Applied to Late Modernity 149 7 Current Scientific Approaches to Self-Development and Identity Formation 151 8 Identity Formation and the Youth Mental Health Crisis 178 9 Contexts of Identity Formation in Late-Modern Societies 215 10 Identity Formation and the Potentials of Human Development 249 Conclusion: Improving Outcomes for All 267 Glossary of SIFT Terminology 273 Index 277