Findings of this study support the position that the global concept of identification is too vague to be useful in assessing its effects on, or relation to adolescent behaviors. The study was based on part of a doctoral dissertation ("Role Models: Their Relationship to Educational and Occupational Behaviors") submitted to Teachers College,…

Identity is the complex way a person identifies with, and is identified by, his environment. Multiple identities result from the many ways a person has been successfully identified. Identities coexist; sometimes the dominance of one over others becomes evident, and a vertical structure of identities arises. (CS)