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This study aims to expose the relationship between ego-identity status and collectivism vs. Individualism between adolescents, and it also exposes the differences between the four statuses of ego-identity through demographic variables (sex, age, school type, parents' educational level, family income, and students grade) among a sample of 270 students (141) male and (129) female, their ages ranged 14-17 years in Amman. This quantitative study used the individualism vs. Collectivism scale (INDCOL), and the extended objective measure of ego-identity status (EOMEIS-II) to get its results, which showed that the relationship between diffusion identity and individualism is an inverse relationship, and the relationship between achievement identity and collectivism is an inverse relationship. It also showed that there are differences in moratorium identity and foreclosure identity depending to family income; the student who has the low family income is in the risk of having one of these identities. While the student's grade variable has an inverse relationship with diffusion identity. (Author's abstract)