Who am I? Specific features of Czech adolescents' identity

This diploma thesis deals with the question of identity in adolescence and is aimed to the specificity of adolescents' identity in the Czech Republic. Considering the fact that there is not given enough attention to the topic of identity, which results in many problems and ambiguity connected with this notion, the significant part of this work is dedicated to its theoretical clarification. The theoretical part concerns the problem of defining identity and provides us with the most frequently quoted theories of identity. It is followed by discussing developmental aspects of identity, particularly in adolescence, and the characteristics of contemporary Czech adolescents. The empirical part as a follow-up to the above mentioned part introduces the research of Czech adolescent's identity; it particularly investigates second and fourth grades students of a grammar school in Prague. The aim of this research is to describe the content of the respondents' self-defining and find out whether there are any differences in the self-defining (identity) between boys and girls and among the age-groups. The theoretical basis is the conception of identity by V. Bačová, who perceives identity as a complex of active self-defining processes on the intrapersonal, interpersonal and social levels. This research used and modified..