psychosocial development in adolescence

Question 1

depression and stress (Swartz)

Answer 1

• Adolescents with 1 or more risk factor (family history of depression or stressful life events):
○ Increases in amygdala reactivity over time

• Adolescents with lower risk (no family history, no recent life stress):
-Decreases in amygdala reactivity over time

Question 2

bullying in schools (Gee)

Answer 2

notes

Question 3

family relationships

Answer 3

• Key changes in family system
  ○ Autonomy support, harmony or connectedness, and conflict

• Family conflict
○ Parent-adolescent conflict peaks in early adolescence
○ Emotional intensity peaks in mid-adolescence

• Closeness with family
	○ Communication 
	○ Support
	○ Connectedness
	○ Control

• Parental monitoring
○ Monitoring is protective until a point
• Cultural differences
○ Familism, filial piety, religiously
-Familism: Respect or value for family relationships, rules, and values
□ Family unit is priority number 1

-Biocultural identities

Question 4

peer selection. facilitation and homophily

Answer 4

• attraction of people who are like you
• we surround ourselves with people that are like us, like to be around, facilitate what we engage in, and reinforce our interests, desires, beliefs, and values

Question 5

marcia’s categories of identity development

Answer 5

• identity achievement
• identity moratorium
• identity foreclosure
• role confusion

Question 6

Eccles’ stage environment fit

Answer 6

notes

Question 7

identity achievement

Answer 7

• person understands who they are as unique individuals

- identity aligns with past experiences and future plans

Question 8

identity moratorium

Answer 8

• socially acceptable way to postpone making identity-achievement decisions
• ex: going to college

Question 9

identity foreclosure

Answer 9

-person adopts parents’ or society’s roles and values wholesale, without questioning

Question 10

role confusion

Answer 10

• person does not seem to know or care what his or her identity iris
• lacks commitment to any goals or values
• identity diffusion