Module 6 - Transition to Adulthood Flashcards
transition includes:
- questioning place in world
- exploring adult world
- forming dream
- forming mentor relationship
- choosing occupation
- love relationships
autonomy
ability to regulate one’s own behaviour without undue control from or dependence on parents
factors of timing of leaving home
- economic factors
- social norms
Gender identity
acquisition of a set of beliefs, attitudes and values about oneself as a man or woman in areas of social life
4 terms used in discussing gender identity
- masculinity
- femininity
- androgyny
- transgender
Kohlberg - Moral Reasoning
progress through a series of three levels
- pre-conventional (4-10)
- conventional (10-18)
- post - conventional (18+)
Holland’s personality type theory - 6 different personality types
- investigative
- social
- realistic
- artistic
- conventionalist
- enterprising
Ginzberg’s developmental theory of occupational choice
the process of occupational choice begins in childhood and spans into transition years
5 periods:
- fantasy (11-12)
- tentative (- later adolescence)
- period of realistic career exploration
- experimentation
- crystallisation of vocational choice
Super Self-Concept Theory
- vocational self concept
- crystallisation stage
- specification stage
- implementation stage
Eriksons stage theory
Infancy trust v mistrust
early childhood (1-3) autonomy v shame
play age (3-6) initiative v guilt
school age (6-12) industry v inferiority
adolescence (12-19) identity v confusion
early adulthood (20-25) intimacy v isolation
adulthood (26-64) generativity v stagnation
old age (65-death) integrity v despair
Marcia 4 identity stages
- Foreclosure
- a moratorium
- identity diffusion
- identity achievement
seven phases of career decision making
- exploration
- crytallisation
- choice
- clarification
- induction
- influence
- integration
crisis
intimacy v isolation
