Results

        The independent variables in this study were: whether or not the participants came from divorced families, or continuously married families.  Some participants also came from families in which their parents never married, or that one, or both of their parents were deceased.  Given the small number of participants from these family backgrounds, they were not used in this study.  Another independent variable was the participant’s score on the Fear of Intimacy Scale.  An independent samples T- test was used to determine the relationship of participant’s parent’s marital status to their score on the Fear of Intimacy Scale.  The results for the test score are as follows.

         Female participants scored a mean of 75, on Fear of Intimacy.  Male participants scored a mean of 79.67. (F (1,59)=  -0707, p< .05).  Significance was not found between genders.  Participants from divorced families scored a mean of 86.25.  Participants from continuously married families scored a mean of 72.34, (F (1,59)= 2.358, p< .05).  Significance was found between the scores of the participants from divorced families versus participants from continuously married families.  This finding supports the idea that people from divorced families have a higher fear of intimacy than people from married families.  However, additional analysis was conducted, in order to examine the relationship of intimacy to identity status.

<>        The Extended Measures of Ego Identity Status Measurement was used to determine the
 participant’s level of ego identity development.  Participants’ identity scores were labeled by four categories of identity development: diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and achievement.  Eighteen participants were labeled as having a diffused identity status.  Six participants were labeled as having a foreclosure identity status.  Thirty-four participants were labeled as being in the moratorium identity achievement stage, and five participants were labeled as achieved identity statuses.  The EOMIS was scored by reverse scoring each response, and then adding the score for a selected group of questions representative of each identity category.  This data was labeled by assigning the numbers to an identity status.
         A Univariate Analysis of Variance was conducted to determine the significance between the Fear of Intimacy score and the Extended Measures of Ego Identity Scale. 
No significance was found between gender and marital status (F (.180) = .836, p< .05).  Significance was approached in the category of marital status, gender, and identity, but significance was not achieved.  The significance level is .055 (F (3.866) = .055, p< .05).  Significance was achieved between the FIS and the EOMIS (F (3.361 = .027, p< .05).  A Post Hoc test (Tukey HSD) was also conducted to determine the relationship between the identity statuses.          
     To summarize the results of this study, significance was found between the Fear of Intimacy and Ego Identity development.  Significance was not found between gender and marital status, or between the FIS, EOMIS and marital status.  Significance was found between fear of intimacy and ego identity status.  These findings, in part, support the hypothesis that participants who have a greater fear of intimacy also have lower ego identity status’.  The findings in this study can be better understood by analyzing possible reasons for the results.