This paper explores the phenomenological and psychodynamic differences between university freshmen who score at the high and low extremes of the Ego Identity scale (EIS), which made along to E. H. Erikson\u27s concept of Ego Identity. 15 freshmen (8 women and 7 men) were interviewed to assess how they cope with various developmental tasks, such an vocational orientation, sex-role preference, belif on life-style, friendship, academic achivement, other activities on college life, et al.. The result show that there were differences between high-EIS group and low-EIS group, and also sex differences within both groups were seen. High-EIS male students coped actively and competetively, and had high self-esteem, on the cotrary, low-EIS male students coped passively and anxiously, who had low self-esteem and conflict on mascularity. In female high-EIS students coped actively, had wishes to have own profession and feeoed trouble-some on feminity, to the contrary, female low-EIS students coped passively but stably. Cotrastsed with male students, EIS score of female students are seemed to show different ways of women\u27s life styles
