PSYB30H3 Final: Lecture 16 - for the final
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Identity status classification was pioneered by james marcia. He administered questionnaires and based on the responses, classified people into one of the 4 states of identity formation. Identity achievement state the pathmakers these are the people who have met the challenge of identity formation. Moratorium state the searchers - their statements insinuate an exploratory process, but at the same time they are yet to make any commitments. These individuals tend to be on the anxious side, but are also warm and friendly. They have a certain existential anxiety from having not yet figured it out yet. Foreclosure state the guardians (of culture) - they have made commitments without having done any exploration. They are the guardians of a particular culture, the preservers, because they take on their parents teachings without question and faithfully reproduce it. They tend to be traditional, diligent and proper, and they tend to have authoritarian ideologies; valuing deference to authority.
