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Identity versus role confusion

Identity

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Erikson’s term for the fifth stage of development, in which the person tries to figure out “Who am I?” but is confused as to which of many possible roles to adopt

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Identity

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Consistent definition of one’s self as a unique individual, in terms of roles, attitudes, beliefs, and aspirations

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Identity achievement

Identity

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Erikson’s term for the attainment of identity, or the point at which a person understands who he or she is as a unique individual, in accord with past experiences and future plans

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Role confusion (identity diffusion)
(Not Yet Achieved)
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Situation in which an adolescent does not seem to know or care what his or her identity is

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Foreclosure

Not Yet Achieved

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Erikson’s term for premature identity formation, which occurs when an adolescent adopts parents’ or society’s roles and values wholesale, without questioning or analysis

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Moratorium

Not Yet Achieved

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An adolescent’s choice of a socially acceptable way to postpone making identity-achievement decisions (Going to college is a common example.)

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Four Areas of Identity Formation

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Erikson (1968/1994) highlighted four aspects of identity:

  1. Religious identity
  2. Political identity
  3. Vocational identity
  4. Sexual identity/gender identity/gender dysphoria
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Adolescents

Human Relationships

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  • Seek to establish unique self

* Are social beings, dependent on others to validate whatever identity they seek

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Conflicts with parents

Human Relationships: With Parents

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Parent–adolescent conflict typically peaks in early adolescence and is more a sign of attachment than of distance

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Bickering

Human Relationships: With Parents

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Bickering involves petty, peevish arguing, usually repeated and ongoing

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Neglect

Human Relationships: With Parents

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Although teenagers may act as if they no longer need their parents, neglect can be very destructive.

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Family closeness, five aspects:

Human Relationships: Family Closeness

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More important than conflict may be family closeness, which has five aspects:
•  Communication
•  Support
•  Emotional dependency
•  Connectedness
•  Control
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Communication

Human Relationships: Family Closeness

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Do parents and teens talk openly with one another?

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Support

Human Relationships: Family Closeness

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Do they rely on one another?

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Emotional dependency

Human Relationships: Family Closeness

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• Adolescents are more dependent on their parents if they are female and/or from a minority ethnic group.
– This can be either repressive or healthy, depending on the culture and the specific circumstances.

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Connectedness

Human Relationships: Family Closeness

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How emotionally close are they?

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Control

Human Relationships: Family Closeness

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Do parents encourage or limit adolescent autonomy?

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Parental monitoring

Do You Know Where Your Teenager Is?

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Parents’ ongoing awareness of what their children are doing, where, and with whom
• Monitoring is a mutual process with adults who care and adolescents who communicate.
• Adolescents participate in their own monitoring.

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Positive

Parental monitoring

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Part of a warm, supportive relationship

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Negative

Parental monitoring

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When overly restrictive and controlling

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Worst

Parental monitoring

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Psychological when parents make a child feel guilty and

impose gratefulness by threatening to withdraw love and support

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Peer pressure

Relationship with Peers

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Provides encouragement to conform to one’s friends or contemporaries in behavior, dress, and attitude
• Is usually considered a negative force, as when adolescent peers encourage one another to defy adult authority
• Can also be positive influence of either gender

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Peers

Relationship with Peers

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Help adolescents navigate physical changes of puberty, intellectual challenges of high school, and social changes of leaving childhood
– Can be more helpful than harmful, especially in early adolescence
– Affect adolescents differentially
– Are particularly needed by adolescents of minority and immigrant groups

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Deviancy training

Peer Support

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Destructive peer support in which one person shows another how to rebel against authority or social norms

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Selection

Relationship with Peers

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Teenagers select friends whose values and interests they share, abandoning friends who follow other paths.

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Facilitation

Relationship with Peers

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• Peers facilitate both destructive and constructive behaviors in one another.
• Makes it easier to do both the wrong thing and the right
thing
• Helps individuals do things they would be unlikely to do on their own

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Developmental Progression of Deviancy

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  • Problem behavior, school marginalization, and low academic performance at age 11
  • Gang involvement two years later, deviancy training two years after that
  • Violent behavior at age 18 or 19
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First Love

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First romance typically occurs in high school
– Girls more likely to seek and have steady relationships
– Exclusive commitment often difficult
– Closely related to emotional state
– Does not always include coitus; norms differ

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Sexual orientation

Same-Sex Romances

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  • Person’s sexual and romantic attraction to others of the same sex, the other sex, or both sexes
  • Fluid during teen years
  • Culture and cohort are powerful influence.
  • Acceptance
  • Criminalization
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Adolescents

Sex Education

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Strong sexual urges but minimal logic about pregnancy and disease

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Sources

Sex Education

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• Media: Many adolescents learn about sex from the media
• Internet: The internet is the most common source for
education
• Music and magazines
Media consumption peaks at puberty

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Learning from parents

Sex Education

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  • Parental communication influences adolescents’ behavior.
  • Many parents know little about their adolescents’ sexual activity and wait to talk about sex until their child is already in a romantic relationship.
  • Especially when parents are silent, forbidding, or vague, adolescent sexual behavior is strongly influenced by peers.
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Timing and content of sex education vary by state and community.
(Sex Education)

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  • Some middle and high schools provide comprehensive education; others provide nothing.
  • Some programs begin in sixth grade; others start at senior year.
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Depression

Sadness and Anger

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  • Less confidence and more depression; gradual self-esteem increase
  • Self-esteem dip at puberty found in every ethnicity and gender; but gender and ethnic differences
  • Influenced by familism
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Clinical depression

Sadness and Anger

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• Feelings of hopelessness, lethargy, and worthlessness that last two weeks or more
• Combination of biological and psychosocial stresses
• Differential susceptibility
(5-HTTLPR)

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Gender differences

Sadness and Anger

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  • Studies find that girls have much higher rates than boys, usually about twice as high.
  • Cause for the gender disparity may be biological, psychological, or social.
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Cognitive explanation: Rumination

Sadness and Anger

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  • Repeatedly thinking and talking about past experiences
  • Can contribute to depression
  • More common in girls
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Suicidal ideation

Suicide

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Thinking about suicide, usually with some serious emotional and intellectual or cognitive overtones
– Adolescent suicidal ideation is common; completed suicides are not.
– Adolescents are less likely to kill themselves than adults are

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Gender differences in suicide

Suicide

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Suicide rate among male teenagers in the U.S. is four times higher than the rate for female teenagers.

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Reasons for gender differences

Suicide

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  • Availability of lethal means

* Male culture that shames those who attempt suicide but fail

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Methods by gender

Suicide

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  • Males tend to shoot themselves; females swallow pills or hang themselves.
  • Girls tend to let their friends and families know that they are depressed, but boys do not.
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Juvenile delinquent
(Delinquency and Defiance)
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  • Person under the age of 18 who breaks the law
  • Moody adolescents could be both depressed and delinquent because externalizing and internalizing behavior are connected during these years.
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Life-course-persistent offender

Delinquency and Defiance

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A person whose criminal activity typically begins in early adolescence and continues throughout life; a career criminal

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Adolescence-limited offender

Delinquency and Defiance

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Person whose criminal activity stops by age 21

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Stubbornness

Pathways to Delinquency

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Can lead to defiance, which can lead to running away

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Shoplifting

Pathways to Delinquency

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Can lead to arson and burglary

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Bullying

Pathways to Delinquency

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Can lead to assault, rape, and murder

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Age trends

Variations in Drug Use

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  • Drug use becomes widespread from age 10 to 25 and then decreases
  • Drug use before age 15 is the best predictor of later drug use
  • Three-fourths of U.S. high school seniors tried alcohol; half are current drinkers
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Cohort differences?????????

Variations in Drug Use

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Rates vary from state to state.
• Drug use among adolescents has decreased in the U.S. since 1976 (decrease in synthetic narcotics and prescription drugs, but increase in vaping).
• Adolescent culture may have a greater effect on drug-taking behavior than laws do.
• Most adolescents in the U.S. have experimented with drug use and say that they could find illegal drugs if they tried.
• Most U.S. adolescents are not regular drug users and about 25% never use any drugs.

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Gender differences in drug use

Drug Use and Abuse

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• Gender differences are reinforced by social constructions about proper male and female behavior.
• Males buy and use more drugs.
• In U.S.
– Males and females smoke almost equally.
– Girls drink alcohol at earlier age.
– Boys use more steroids and girls use more diet drugs.

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Harm from Drugs

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Many researchers find that drug use before maturity is particularly likely to harm body and brain growth.
• Few adolescents notice harm from drugs.
• Brain differences make addiction differences for each
adolescent.
– Genetic
– Contextual
– Age-related

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Tobacco

Harm from Drugs

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  • Slows down growth (impairs digestion, nutrition, and appetite)
  • Can damage developing hearts, lungs, brains, and reproductive systems
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Alcohol

Harm from Drugs

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  • Most frequently abused drug among North American teenagers
  • Heavy drinking may permanently impair memory and self-control by damaging the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex.
  • Adolescents typically deny that they experience any harm or could ever become addicted.
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Marijuana

Harm from Drugs

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  • Adolescents who regularly smoke marijuana are more likely to drop out of school, become teenage parents, and be unemployed.
  • Marijuana affects memory, language proficiency, and motivation.
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Generational forgetting

Preventing Drug Abuse: What Works?

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  • The idea that each new generation forgets what the previous generation learned
  • As used here, the term refers to knowledge about the harm drugs can do.
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What works

Preventing Drug Abuse: What Works?

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  • FL and CA ad campaigns appealing to young
  • Graphic image ads
  • Parental example and social changes
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9th vs 12th graders: Percentage of virgins

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70 vs 35-40

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Parasuicide

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Any potentially lethal action against the self that does not result in death

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Cluster suicide

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Several suicides committed by members of a group within a brief period of time

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