The purpose of this study was to use a narrative approach to investigate the types of ethnicity-related experiences (i.e., ethnicidentity content) that were prevalent in the lives of young people in Sweden and to examine if these types of experiences differeddue to immigrant status, self-identified ethnicity, or age-groups. Ninety-five participants (87% women, 66% immigrants; 57%emerging adults, 43% adolescents; Mage 19.62) shared their ethnicity-related experiences. Results indicated that youth fromimmigrant backgrounds more often wrote about ethnicity-related experiences. Thematic analysis revealed six types of stories:feelings of prejudice or racism, general differences, not fitting in, being “another kind of Swede,” being in between cultures orethnicities, and cultural ideologies. These themes showed little variation by participant immigrant background, ethnicity, or age.The themes found in this study reflect complex and multicultural identities that may play an important part in young people’sidentity formation.

The aim of this study was to investigate identity status globally and across identity domains among young Swedish adult women and men. Also, potential differences in social comparison among identity statuses were evaluated. The results showed that most of the 124 participants (50% women, Mage 33.29 years) were assigned to an achieved global identity and had made identity-defining commitments across domains. Gender differences in identity status were found in the occupational and parenthood domains. In addition, differences in social comparison orientation were found only in the parenthood domain, whereas those assigned to moratorium scored higher in social comparison than did those assigned to foreclosure and diffusion. These results bring important knowledge to our understanding of identity during young adulthood.