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friends I have had. I feel like I abandoned a lot of the core beliefs I used to have and
have made bad habits as far as the way I treat my friends and family.
2. Being elected or serving in a sorority leadership position
1. One incident that helped shape my sense of who i am was getting elected the
president of my pledge class. The entire pledge class voted on who would be the
most reliable person, liaison between pledges and actives, and most responsible
leader. Getting elected by these girls meant a lot to me because they are amazing
girls and their respect and admiration is really special. It was important because it
gave me a chance to be a leader in the house and i established myself quickly as
someone who would want to continue to be a leader in alpha gamma gamma. I
believe the long term effects is that this experience helped hone my leadership skills
and teach me a lot of things about what it takes to be a leader.
2. My experience as the VP of Administration at Pi Beta Phi, while living in the
sorority house for the 2005 calendar year, was a great experience. I enjoyed working
with the other members of the Executive Board- particularly the President. We
became very close and I learned a lot from her about how to deal with certain
situations, how to time manage, and how to work with a diverse group of people. I
learned a lot about myself as a person- what my priorities are, my personal opinions
on issues, how I like to organize my time and my life, and just what is important to
me. It also made me reevaluate the kind of people I want to surround myself with,
since it made me realize that being around motivated goal-oriented people had a
positive effect on me, and this made me want to motivate and inspire all the other
girls in my house as well as in other realms of my life.
3. As VP Fraternity Development in my house, I am in charge of Inspirations Week
(initiation week), which basically required me to put on programming and
ceremonies sleeplessly for a week for our large pledge class. At the end of the week,
everything had gone to plan and I was delighted as pledges, active members, my
friends, and parents of sorority members personally complimented me on the success
of the week. This made me feel that my accomplishments and contributions did not
go unnoticed and it also allowed me to see the success of the Puritan work ethic! It
has empowered me to give myself wholly to things that I want to succeed at. I have
realized that if I only give a partial effort, I get a marginal result. Although very
exhausting, this experience allowed me to place more faith in the good of my peers.
4. Heading Recruitment for my sorority B. my co-chair who is also one of my best
friends C. I learned to be a leader, work with a diverse group of individuals,
communicate while trying to execute a large scale event D. I want to be an event
Object Description
| Title | Student perspectives on identity development: describing the experiences sorority members perceive influenced their identity |
| Author | Sarkissian, Vergene |
| Author email | vergenes@usc.edu; sarkv@hotmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-05-13 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 2 Oct. 2009. |
| Date published | 2009-10-02 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Goodyear, Rodney K. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Malloy, Courtney Espalin, Charles A. |
| Abstract | This qualitative study examined the college related sources of impact that sorority member students perceived affected their identity development. A variant of Flanagan's (1954) Critical Incident Technique was used to ask sorority members (n=70) to describe one or two critical incidents that they believed had affected their sense of self, and then to rate the immediate positivity of the incident, as well its eventual effect on their sense of self. Three doctoral students reviewed the 100 obtained incident reports, from which they developed 14 themes: Participating in rush an/or joining a sorority; Being elected or serving in a sorority leadership position; Dealing with crisis; Receiving the support of sisters with in the sorority network; Being elected or serving in a leadership position in a campus related organization; Learning about myself as a result of a romantic relationship; Making an important, independent decision for myself; Making a commitment to community service and outreach; Sorority affiliated judgment or rejection; Having an experience of failure; Making the transition from home to college; Studying abroad; Receiving personal or career guidance from others; Engaging in a selfless act of compassion. The findings of this study provide valuable insight and knowledge to the potential benefits of sorority affiliation in regards to college women's identity development. The findings also support previous research on women's identity development and suggest gender specific developmental pathways. In congruence with student development research and theory, experiences related to student involvement, relationship, autonomy and crisis were prevalent in the participant responses. The limitations of the study, recommendations for future research and implications for higher education practice are also presented. |
| Keyword | identity development; women's identity development; sorority membership; sorority network; student inolvement; leadership; relationships; mentorship; social capital; crisis; autonomy; study abroad |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Digitized by the University of Southern California |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1619 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Sarkissian, Vergene |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Sarkissian-2435 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Sarkissian-2435.pdf |
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| Title | Page 137 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 129 friends I have had. I feel like I abandoned a lot of the core beliefs I used to have and have made bad habits as far as the way I treat my friends and family. 2. Being elected or serving in a sorority leadership position 1. One incident that helped shape my sense of who i am was getting elected the president of my pledge class. The entire pledge class voted on who would be the most reliable person, liaison between pledges and actives, and most responsible leader. Getting elected by these girls meant a lot to me because they are amazing girls and their respect and admiration is really special. It was important because it gave me a chance to be a leader in the house and i established myself quickly as someone who would want to continue to be a leader in alpha gamma gamma. I believe the long term effects is that this experience helped hone my leadership skills and teach me a lot of things about what it takes to be a leader. 2. My experience as the VP of Administration at Pi Beta Phi, while living in the sorority house for the 2005 calendar year, was a great experience. I enjoyed working with the other members of the Executive Board- particularly the President. We became very close and I learned a lot from her about how to deal with certain situations, how to time manage, and how to work with a diverse group of people. I learned a lot about myself as a person- what my priorities are, my personal opinions on issues, how I like to organize my time and my life, and just what is important to me. It also made me reevaluate the kind of people I want to surround myself with, since it made me realize that being around motivated goal-oriented people had a positive effect on me, and this made me want to motivate and inspire all the other girls in my house as well as in other realms of my life. 3. As VP Fraternity Development in my house, I am in charge of Inspirations Week (initiation week), which basically required me to put on programming and ceremonies sleeplessly for a week for our large pledge class. At the end of the week, everything had gone to plan and I was delighted as pledges, active members, my friends, and parents of sorority members personally complimented me on the success of the week. This made me feel that my accomplishments and contributions did not go unnoticed and it also allowed me to see the success of the Puritan work ethic! It has empowered me to give myself wholly to things that I want to succeed at. I have realized that if I only give a partial effort, I get a marginal result. Although very exhausting, this experience allowed me to place more faith in the good of my peers. 4. Heading Recruitment for my sorority B. my co-chair who is also one of my best friends C. I learned to be a leader, work with a diverse group of individuals, communicate while trying to execute a large scale event D. I want to be an event |
