【Abstract】Personal identity development is an interactive, dynamic, and complex process formed in such an environment as family, a micro-context where child-parent interaction occurs, resulting to individuation through certain interpersonal communication while parents’ transferring their identity to their children. Disruptive and optimal identity developments, were found to be two kinds of identity development, which are closely related to the fact whether parents have positive or negative personal identities. And informative, normative, and diffuse/avoidant as three fundamental types of identity statuses are introduced as well.
　　【Key words】personal identity formation; development; parent-child relationship; dynamic; situational
　　【作者簡介】海燕(1977-)，女，内蒙古呼和浩特人，中国西北大学，助教，硕士，研究方向：语言学，跨文化交流，语言教育；于亚莉(1974-)，女，陕西商州人，中国西北大学，讲师，硕士，研究方向：翻译理论与实践，商务英语。
　　According to Koepke and Denissen (2012), identity development is characterized by the dynamic “intersection” (p.68) of an individual’s psychological particulars and the characteristics of the ways that he or she deals with the social environment. Soltani, Hosseini and Mahmoodi (2013) stated that identity formation is not simply the add-up of childhood identifications and its development consists of the processes of “introjections” and “identifications”, and “assimilative processes”, and “accommodative processes”, absorbing parents “images”, “roles”, “values”, and “beliefs”, experiencing