Abstract

The purpose of present study is to investigate relation between college student's identity statuses and parent's child behavior control patterns perceived by students. Baumrinds' studies on parents' child behavior control and Marcia's investigations on identity statuses have been theoretical foundations for the study. In this study, Marcias categories of the identity statuses is reclassified; identity achievement, moratorium, foreclosure, diffusion and indifference. Parents' patterns of child behavior control suggested by Baumrind are control, maturity demand, communication and nurturance. The results of the present study showed that the research hypothesis is generally accepted at statisitially significant level. Based on the results and previous studies, it would be concluded that parents' control patterns of child behavior are closely associated with the college student's identity statuses. There were slight differences of the identity statuses and the behavior control patterns between college male students and female students.