IDENTITY CAPITAL MODEL IN ITALIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: EVALUATION OF THE ITALIAN VERSIONS OF THE MULTI-MEASURE AGENTIC PERSONALITY SCALE AND IDENTITY STAGE RESOLUTION INDEX

The current study assessed the applicability to the Italian context of the Identity Capital Model, which postulates that in late-modern societies personal agency is positively associated with two senses of adulthood: adult identity and acceptance in an adult community. The participants comprised 332 Italian university students. Three self-report measures were used: The Multi-Measure Agentic Personality Scale (MAPS20); the Identity Stage Resolution Index (ISRI); the Dimensions of Identity Development Scale (DIDS). Confirmatory factor analyses of the Italian version of MAPS20 and of the ISRI, along with the convergent validity between them and measures of identity processes (DIDS), suggest that the Italian version of both the MAPS and the ISRI are a promising tool for assessing identity capital.