Name: Karamjit Kaur, Gaurvi Sharma
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-15, Issue-1 (Jan-June)
Page Number: 180-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16016040

This study examines the identity achieved and diffusion status among secondary school students with respect to academic achievement and gender. Using a descriptive research design, data was collected from 500 Grade +1 students (250 boys and 250 girls) from five randomly selected secondary schools in Punjab. The Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status–2 (EOMEIS-2) by Bennion and Adams (1986) was employed to assess ego identity. Academic achievement was categorized into high and low based on the first (Q1) and third (Q3) quartiles from school records, with 60 students in each of the four resulting groups (N = 240). A two-way ANOVA revealed a significant gender difference in identity achieved status, with high achievers scoring higher than low achievers—especially among girls. Notably, girls demonstrated greater identity achievement than boys when academic achievement was low. Boys demonstrated significant number in diffusion status of identity in comparison to girls.The finding