Steven L. Berman
Associate Professor
Department of psychology
University of Central Florida
United States of America
Biography
Steven L. Berman is an Assistant Professor at UCF in the department of Sociology. EDUCATION 1992-1996 Ph.D. Florida International University Developmental Psychology Miami, Florida 1983-1987 M.S. Nova University Clinical Psychology Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 1980-1983 M.A. McGill University Educational Psychology Montreal, Canada 1976- 1980 B.S. McGill University Personality & Abnormal Psychology Montreal, Canada Steven L. Berman is an Associate Professor at UCF in the department of Sociology.
Research Interest
My major area of research is Identity Formation, including the development of career goals, sense of self (ethnic identity, gender roles, sexual orientation), changing attachment patterns (family, friendships, romance), and values acquisition (morality, politics, religion). I am particularly interested in the anxiety and distress often associated with this developmental task. I have been developing intervention programs to help young people struggling with identity dilemmas and related symptoms of anxiety and distress.
Publications
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Berman, S. L. & Weems, C. F. (2012). Identity distress in adolescence. In R. J. R. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence, Part 9 (pp. 1357-1361). New York: Springer.
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Berman, S. L., Ratner, K. A., Cheng, M., Li, S., Jhingon, G., & Sukumaran, N. (2014). Identity distress during the era of globalization: A cross-national comparative study of India, China, and the United States of America. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 14, 286–296.
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Berman, S. L., & Montgomery, M. J. (2014). Problematic identity processes: The role of identity distress. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 14, 241–245.
