Chapter 10 Adolescence: The Social World Flashcards
what is the question we need to answer
“who am I”
5 psychosocial crisis
identity vs role confusion
what is identity vs role confusion
working through the complexities of finding oneself
crisis with resolved with
identity
achievement
when adolescents have reconsidered the goals and values of their parents and culture, accepting some and discarding others
identity achievement is particularly hard for adolescents who are conflicted about
the clash between family values and society norms
4 ways adolescents and young adults cope with crisis
- role confusion
- foreclosure
- moratorium
- achievement
what is the opposite of achievement
role confusion
role confsion
lack any commitment to goals or values
fore closure
in order to avoid the stress of sorting through all the nuances of identity and beliefs, young people lump traditional roles and vales together
foreclosing on an oppositional, negative identity
rejecting all elders values and routines
is foreclosure permanent
no it is temporary
4 aspects of identity
religious
poltical
sexual
vocational
regions identity is similar to
the ones they have grown up with
political identity reflects two influences
parents and current events
adolescents tend to be more what learning
liberal that elders
sex vs gender
sex: certain physical and genetic traits assigned at birth
gender: refers to the cultural and social factors
cisgender
gender identity is the same as their birth sex
gender dysphoria
when people are distressed to be whatever gender others expect them to be
intersectionality
each identity overlaps with every other
who influenced adolescent lives
parents
peers
grandparents
siblings
teachers
culture
if parents are not supportive, what will happen with friends
trouble
are family disputes common
yes
how do we know how much control is needed
too much or too little is bad
4 aspects of parent child relationships
communication
support
connectedness
control
parental monitoring
knowledge about child whereabouts, activites, and companions
when do children share details
if parents are supportive
familism
belief that family members should sacrifice personal freedom and success to care for one another
selection
teens select friends with smilier values and interests abandoning friends with other interests
facilitate
peer pressure to do something
*wouldnt do it if you were by yourself
peer pressure
someone being pushed by their friends to do something that they would not do alone
coercive joining
when two people join together in making derogatory comments about a 3rd person
who has a steady partner more often
girls
are most peer relationships sexual or nonsexual
nonsexual
sexual orientation
refers to the direction of a persons erotic desires
digital natives
todays teenagers they have been networking and texting all of their lives
sexting
sending sexual photographs and videos
less confience but then it starts to increase at
15
MDD
deep sadness and hopelessness that distrupts all normal regular activities
suicidual ideation
distressing thoughts about killing oneself
parasuicide
attempted suciude
- deliberate self harm that could have been lethal
who has higher parasicude
girls
who have higher rates of completed
boys
*especially those who are troubled about gender identity
how much higher is the suicide rate forLCBTQ+
7x
cluster suicides
several sucidues within a group in the same time peroid
adolescence limited offenders
criminal activity stops by age 21
life course persistent offenders
who become career criminals
who are more likely to break the law then adults
adolescents
most teens try what drugs
psychoactive
psychoactive drugs do what to the brain
activate it and excite the limbic system
what happens if drugs or alcohol is consumed before 15
damage is more likely at that age
inhalants
fumes from aerosol containers, glue, cleaning fluids
tobacco does what
impaires digestion and nutrition, slowing down growth
what is the most frequently abuse drug in NA
alcohol
heavy drinking does what
impairs memory and self fontrol
generational foregtting
each new cohort forgets what the previous cohort has learned
how long might finding an identity take
8-10 years
how might identity impact relationships
if you do not know who you are and do not behave consistently, it is very difficult or impossible to successfully maintain a permanent or intimate relationship
James marcia theory 2 questions
- has a crisis occurred
- to what degree has the adolescent committed to a set of values, an occupational choice, religious or political beliefs
confusion
- crisis and commitment
no
foreclosure
premature commitments
fore closure
- crisis and commitment
crisis: no
commitment: yes
moratorium
haven’t made a permeant commitment
moratorium
- crisis and commitment
crisis: yes
commitment: no
achievement
- crisis and commtment
yes
confusion
not wanting to deal with it
doesn’t seem to know or care their identity is
confusion age
early identity
foreclosure
premature commitment
- adopts parents or society’s roles and values wholesale without questioning or analysis
foreclosure age
mid adolescent
moratorium
questioning
planned pause
* gap year, military
achievement age
18-25
4 key aspects to identity
religious
political
ethnic
gender
intersectionality
pushed and pulled to combine our various identities
sibling what type of relationship
love hate
family conflict is more significant when
early adolesence
parental monitoring is most effective when
warm
parent child relationships improve with
time
4 aspects of family closeness
communicaiton
support
conntectedness
control
healthy parent adolsent relationships enhance later
peer friendships and more reciprocal romance s
Joanne Davila *video
argues that people do not know how to have healthy realtionships
*insight, mutuality, emotional regualrion
sexual abstinence only approach
delays first encounter but higher STI
percent of bullying unreported
30
percent who have been bullied
60
risk of self harm is the greatest right after
puberty 15-17
symptoms of depression
emotional
- miserable
behavioral
- lacking drive
cognitive
- hold negative views
physical
- headaches
anhedonia
inability to experience pleasure
are MDD and sucide always related
no
who is more likely to think of sucide
9th graders
acronym for suicude
plaid pals
why is anger more noticed than depression
anger is externalizing
depression is internalizing
limbic system develops
slowly
striatum
related to reward
the ________ the child is the higher risk to become addicted
younger
decline in all drugs expect for
vaping
when parents provide alcohol
more substance abuse long term
mariguana more likely to
drop out of School
become teen parents
be unemployed
age restriction
any restriction encourages younger adolescents to covet drugs used by older youth
