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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026

Revising the measurement of Eriksonian ego identity in contemporary Italian adolescents: the EPSI-IT.

David Vagni, Antonio Tintori, Giulia Ciancimino, Leone G Orvieto, Loredana Cerbara

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David VagniInstitute for Research and Innovation in Biomedicine, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy.
Antonio TintoriInstitute for Research on Population and Social Policies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy.
Giulia CianciminoInstitute for Research on Population and Social Policies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy.
Leone G OrvietoInstitute for Research on Population and Social Policies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy.
Loredana CerbaraInstitute for Research on Population and Social Policies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy.

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Introduction: The Identity subscale of the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (EPSI) is the most widely used brief measure of Eriksonian ego identity, but it carries a historically situated gender item and has no published Italian validation. Instruments inherit the assumptions of the era that produced them, and an item can lose validity as those assumptions shift. Methods: In two waves of an Italian school cohort in Rome (2025, Results: Among the models compared, a bifactor solution fit best in both waves (EPSI-IT ω Discussion: We recommend the total score as the primary index, complemented by the synthesis subscale, and report preliminary grade-specific reference values for research use. More broadly, a historically situated item-here gender-related certainty used as a marker of ego identity-can come to function as separable content in a contemporary cohort.

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bifactor modelErikson Psychosocial Stage Inventorygender identitymeasurement invariancesocial identity

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