Gender Differences on the Identity Status of the Malaysian Preparatory Students/Differences Entre Les Sexes Sur Le Statut D'identite des Etudiants Malaisiens Dans Les Programmes Preparatoires (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION Having a true identity is very important for all human beings in order to function properly. Psychologists believed that people should already have a sense of identity by the age of eighteen. Some psychologists even suggested that adolescents should have an identity intact in themselves before the end of secondary school. Since preparatory students who are doing their foundation for their bachelor's degree are passed that age, it is expected of them to already form an identity.