Literature Review #4

For my fourth source I will be using an article written by Anthony L. Burrow titled "Purpose a Form of Identity Capital for Positive Youth Adjustment." Burrow is a a professor of human development and the director of the purpose and identity processes laboratory where he conducted many researches. He talks about identity capital as a theory and states that "Identity capital, then, represents aspects of who one is that can be invested to successfully navigate key tasks and to capitalize on experiences." This can be tied to my last literature review and the idea of self-efficacy where an individual's experiences affect their motivation through self efficacy. 

 I will be using this information to connect with my research question of whether fraternities help build identity capital by using the different aspects that Burrow talks about involving identity capital. Burrow mainly talks about purpose and I believe that a fraternity can help bring purpose to the things that an individual does. Burrow states, "Thus, to the extent that having a sense of purpose is adaptive, youth without a purpose may fail to reap its associated benefits because of their relative inability to select meaningful opportunities with which to engage." Fraternities expose individuals to these "opportunities" which are both social and educational though their vast networking opportunities from alumni along with the presence of a social life that other organizations cannot offer. 
     Burrow, Anthony L., and Patrick L. Hill. “Purpose as a Form of Identity Capital for Positive Youth Adjustment.” Developmental Psychology, vol. 47, no. 4, 2011, pp. 1196–1206., doi:10.1037/a0023818.

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