FMST 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Identity Crisis, Peer Pressure
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Chapter 12 independent questions: theories of social and personality development, psychoanalytic perspectives. If you want to form an identity, there must a crisis which means you"re questioning, and a commitment which means you"re settled on it (you know who you are) Foreclosure no to crisis but yet to commitment. Determine whether a crisis and whether a commitment exists in each of the four types (see figure 12. 1). No reassessment of old positions has been made. Instead, the young person has simply accepted a parentally or culturally defined commitment. Identity diffusion: the young person is not in the midst of a crisis (although there may have been one in the past) and has not made a commitment. Diffusion may thus represent either an early stage in the process (before a crisis) or a failure to reach a commitment after a crisis.
