Emotional

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Adolescence

• Emotional Social Development

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Eriksons Psychosocial Theory
of Personality Development
Develop a firm sense of who you are identity
Most experience some role confusion
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Self-Understanding

• Self-concept
• Early socially-oriented, descriptions often
  contradictory
• Mid to late descriptions organized integrated
  by use of qualifiers

Shy outgoing, smart an airhead
Mostly shy around my parents, but not around
friends because they listen to me
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Self-Understanding

• Self-esteem
• New dimensions close friends, romantic appeal,
  job

How does self-esteem change in adolescence?
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Self-esteem changes in adolescence
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Self-Understanding

• Self-esteem
• New dimensions close friends, romantic appeal,
  job
• Poor academic competence
• Conditional peers or parental support false self

Do you think self-esteem changes in adolescence?
What leads to low self-esteem?
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Did you have an identity crisis or evaluate
your identity in adolescence?
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Identity Statuses(James Marcia)
Degree of Crisis
Low High
High
Low
Achievement
Foreclosure
Degree of commitment to roles values
Moratorium
Identity diffusion
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What does research show?

1. Variability, but

1. Finished by end adolescence

not usually
Degree of Crisis
Low High
High
Low
Achievement
Foreclosure
Degree of commitment to roles values
Moratorium
Identity diffusion
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Outcomes Influences

• Outcomes
• Moratorium related to better self-esteem,
  critical thinking, moral reasoning
• Foreclosed are inflexible intolerant
• Long-term diffused teenagers are at greatest risk
  for maladjustment
• Factors that affect identity development

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In-Class Activity 6

• The purpose of this assignment is to become
  familiar with the methods used to assess morality
  and each of Kohlbergs stages of moral
  understanding.

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Morality
Level Stage Social orientation
Preconventional 1 Obedience punishment
2 Instrumental individualism
Conventional 3 good boy-good girl
4 Law order
Postconventional 5 Social contract
6 Principled conscience/ethics
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Peer Relationships

• American adolescence spend less than 15 of
  waking hours with parents

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Cliques Crowds
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Cliques Crowds



5-7 same-aged, gender members (dating)
Large, loosely organized group
Close friendships direct interaction
Reputation style, time with others varies
Context to acquire social skills experiment
with values roles
Offers security of temporary identity as separate
from family
the plastics
jocks
who adolescents hang out with
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Peer Conformity Problems of adolescent
development