Marcia

• Crisis


  Period of conscious decision making
• Commitment


  Personal investment in an occupation or ideology
• Identity status represent the status of identity development at a particular time, and they may change in any direction as young people continue to develop
• 4 types of Identity status

  • Identity Achievement
  • Foreclosure
  • Moratorium
  • Identity Diffusion
• Identity Achievement


  • Crisis leading to commitment
• Foreclosure


  • Commitment without crisis
  • Result of exploring choices but accepting someone else's plans for her life
  • Uncritically accepted others' opinions
• Moratorium


  • Crisis with no commitment yet
  • Actively grappling with his identity and trying to decide the path he wants his life to take
  • Exploration
• Identity Diffusion


  • No commitment, no crisis
  • Not seriously considered options and has avoided commitments