Critically evaluate the factors that may affect identity development during adolescence.
- Created by: Meg Fraser
- Created on: 13-01-17 10:09
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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
- Impact of consumption on construction of identities
- 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
- Marcia (1980) identity status
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