Lecture 14: Life Stage Personality Issues Flashcards
What is the most useful and economical way to organize our personality judgements?
With the Big Five taxonomy
What do we need to know about a person to know them well?
- Big 5
- Motives (Big 3)
- Note:
- The two above are uncorrelated
- Motives can predict life outcomes
How much do people change in their personality over their life?
- Big 5:
- stable since genetically enherited
- change is possible
- could result due to events
- Big 3 (Motives)
- not as stable
What are Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages?
- Trust (< 1-year-old)
- Autonomy (2 years old)
- Initiative (4 - 5 years old)
- Industry (childhood to mid-adolescence)
- Identity (late adolescence to young adulthood)
- Intimacy (young adulthood)
- Generativity (midlife)
- Integrity (old age)
True or False
It is common to have an identity crisis between ages 15 to 25 years of age.
True
Especially occupational crisis
25% not sure about career trajectory
What is McAdams view on identity?
“Identity is mainly about exploring and ultimately committing to specific life goals and values for the long haul.”
“choosing what sort of career goals, …, deciding the most important values in your life.”
According to James Marcia, what does identity formation consists of?
- exploration
- commitment
According to James Marcia, what are two crucial areas for identity formation?
- Occupational goals
- Personal ideaology
- political beliefs
- religions beliefs
How did Marcia test identity formation?
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Identity Status interview
- 30 questions
- responses were transcribed and evaluated into an identity status
What are Marcia’s identity status?
- Identity diffusion
- most immature stage
- no exploration
- no commitment
- Forclosure
- embarrassed what their family or society wants them to to (commitment)
- no exploration
- Moratorium
- exploration starts
- no commitment
- Identity achievement
How does Marcia see Foreclosure?
As an inadequate attempt to get an identity
True or False
Foremost identity formation, will most likely never change.
True, foremost is stable. Might change if there is a big life event.
Using Marcia’s identity status, how would you classify the following?
Have you ever had any doubts about your religious beliefs?
“No, not really. Our family is pretty much in agreement about these things”
Foremost
Using Marcia’s identity status, how would you classify the following:
How willing do you think you would be to give up your career track if something better came along?
“I guess if I knew for sure I could answer that better. It would have to be something in the general area of medicine - something related to it.”
Moratorium
What are Marcia’s identity status and their key features?
- Diffusion:
- alienated and isolated
- distant from parents
- apathy, dysphoria
- Foreclosure:
- goal directed
- close to family
- confidence, sureness
- Moratorium:
- Preoccupied and struggling
- marked ambivalence towards parents
- anxiety, doubt
- Achievement:
- trust themselves
- able to explain their choices
- view of parents is balanced
- Reflective confidence
Does your identity status change overtime?
- Adams et al. 1982
- 148 students assessed
What is the relationship of the intimacy status and the identity status?
