Child + Youth Chapter 1

• Identity vs Role Confusion


  achievement of identity, physical changes and accompanied by sexual urges and strong social pressures
• Industry vs Inferiority


  children must achieve cognitive and social skills, work industriously and cooperate
• Initiative vs Guilt


  children identify and learn from parents
• Autonomy vs Shame


  child must develop strong sense of autonomy while adjusting to social demands
• Trust vs. Mistrust


  development relates to whether they can trust their world
• Identity Status Interview

  primary style to resolving identity questions
• Measurement of Identity in Psychosocial Approaches

  four different styles youth use to find resolutions to identity vs role confusion
• Psychosocial Approaches to Identity

  roles played by both society and an individuals dynamics and biology in developing and maintaining personal identity
• Measurment of Identity in Narrative Approaches

  Qualitative methods and builds a holistic picture of an individual
• Narrative Approaches to Identity

  language is a text out of which identities are constructed, justified, and maintained
• Measurement of identity in sociocultural approaches

  impact of globalization and its political, social, and economic consequence
• Sociocultural Approaches to Identity

  role that society plays in providing individual identity alternatives
• Kegan's Semi-structured Interview

  shown 10 cards, then asked to select cards that evoke memories
• Lovinger's Sentence Completion Test


  36 incomplete sentences, participant requested to view however they want
• Structural Stage Approach to Identity

  changing internal structures of ego development. Giving meaning to one's life experiences
• Sequential Research Design


  combines cross-sectional with longitudinal research. Look at interrelationships among chronological gap, cohort, and time of measurement
• Identity in history

  20th century, themes of alienation of selfhood were widespread.
• martorium

  period of searching for or exploring meaningful identity commitments
• negative identity


  an individual bases of identity from roles presented earlier in development
• foreclosure


  premature closure of idenity
• identity crisis

  key turning point in ones identity development
• Identity formation process

  begins in childhood and continues through lifespan. Central task of adolescence. Emergence of a new structure
• Identity in the Life Span

  8 stage cycle. Trust vs mistrust, autonomy vs. shame, initiative vs. guilt, indistry vs. inferiority, idenity vs role confustion
• Tripartiture Nature of Ego Idenity

  shaped by 3 elements: biological, psychological, and cultural
• Ego Identity


  describe a central disturbance in the psychological lives of veterans
• Origins of Identity

  Erik Erikson. conscious and unconscious process