ED PSYCH 321 Chapter 8: Chapter 8
10 Mar 2017
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Involvement with delinquent peers may increase self-esteem: adolescents with high self-esteem are more likely to experiment with alcohol. The adolescent identity crisis: erikson"s theoretical framework, believes that establishment of coherent sense of identity is chief psychosocial crisis of adolescence. If adolescent"s identity is forged out of recognition on part of society, society will play important role in determining sort of identities. Identity diffusion: incoherent, disjointed, incomplete sense of self. Identity foreclosure: bypassing the period of exploration and experimentation that precedes the establishment of a healthy sense of identity: negative identity: identities that are undesirable to parents and community. Research on identity development: determining an adolescent"s identity status. Individuals are assigned to one of 4 identity states. Identity achievement: individual has established coherent sense of identity: moratorium: individual is in the midst of a period of exploration. Identity foreclosure: individual has made commitments but without a period of exploration.
