Critically evaluate the factors that may affect identity development during adolescence.

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  • Factors affecting identity development
    • Marcia (1980) identity status
      • Diffusion - unable to make a commitment
      • Foreclosure - form commitments without serious consideration
      • Moratorium -(crisis stage) consider alternatives to forming a commitment
        • Parental conflict
        • Likely to change academic plans
        • Need to be able to resolve this crisis to achieve an identity
          • Meilman (1979) - only 50% of 24 years olds achieve their identity
    • Miles et al (1998)
      • Impact of consumption on construction of identities
        • Communication enables them to participate socially and construct an identity
      • Consumptionallows young people to fit in with the pretence of individuality
      • Consumptiona means of establishing peer relationships e.g. music
        • Important to develop a sense of who they are in a peer context
    • Erikson's psychosocial development
      • Trust in others leads to independence, determinationand hard work - achievement of identity
      • Mistrust in others leads to doubt, guilt and a sense of inferiority - role confusion
      • Women need to find an intimate partner before forming their identity
        • Era-specific as women have many different roles now
        • Based on limited data collected from men
      • Men are able to achieve their identity before intimacy

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Here are listed the really important factors that affect the development of a teenager and directly on his personality as a person. It is very important for each person to be a separate person with his own individuality. You can read more about this on https://phdessay.com/free-essays-on/individuality/ as well as the informative essay on individuality. This topic is especially relevant now, as more and more people under the influence of modern society become similar to each other. All this is done in order to stay "in trend", otherwise they will not be perceived as a person or they will lose the respect of their surroundings. 

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