T4D2 Flashcards
What is identity
Who am I?
What am I about?
What am I going to do with my life?
James Marcia’s Identity Statuses Scale
Exploration: Low vs High
Committment: Low vs High
James Marcia’s Identity Statuses: Foreclosure
Low Exploration, High Committment. Adopting an identity without exploration or thought.
James Marcia’s Identity Statuses: Identity Achievement
High Exploration, High Committment. A person has chosen an identity and adult life path after searching out various options
James Marcia’s Identity Statuses: Identity Diffusion
Low Exploration, Low Committment. ‘Drifting aimlessly without any goals’. Not knowing what you want to do with your life and not trying to find out.
James Marcia’s Identity Statuses: Moratorium
Low Committment, High Exploration. Active search into different adult pathways
Define Ethnic Identity
A sense of being a member of an ethnic group and the way you feel about that membership
Interaction between SES and Ethinicity in Identity
Ethnicity and SES have often been lumped together in research.
Discuss religious development and application of logical skills
Adolescents may start applying their new found logical thinking skills to religious principles and start developing different religious/spiritual beliefs.
Religion in adolescence has been found to foster what
care and concern for others and develop a love for community service
Define Parental monitoring
Supervising choice of social settings, activities, friends and academic efforts
Define parental Conflict
Conflict can be seen as a positive move towards independence
Disclosure of whereabouts is more likely when
having a positive relationship (trust acceptance) with adolescent
4 Reasons for dating
- Recreation
- Status
- Learning about close relationships (connects to slide on opportunity for close relationships)
- Finding a mate
Stages of adolescent dating
11-13: crush, triggered by puberty
14-16: exploring romantic relationships
17-19: more serious romantic relationships
Early (11-13) romantic relationships can lead to what
problems at home and at school and are linked to adolescent depression
3 factors of Poor family relationships
Alienated from parents
No parental monitoring
No authoritative parenting
3 reason why adolescents get in trouble (ven diagram, rational, emotional, wise in middle)
Poor family relationships
Having delinquent friends
Prior emotion-regulation problems
Define Emerging adulthood (18-25):
- The transition from adolescence to adulthood.
- Experimentation and exploration of career paths and lifestyles.
College drinking peaks when
at ages 21-22