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