HDFS 1060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Midlife Crisis, Individuation
29 Mar 2017
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Focus on identity and individuation: each stage in life has a source of anxiety. Identity triangle: which groups do you fit with, are alienated from. Occupation: pressures to work on a commitment on a career. Lifestyle: what lifestyle are you going to choose, how you wanna live your life as an adult, material things, family, children, what do you want in your life that will make you happy. Values: what beliefs and values you will own as your own. Psychosocial crisis: identity versus identity confusion: you need to make these identity commitments in order to move into adulthood. : a person continues to carry a lot of anxiety about their identity. This may result in them being uncertain in what they wanna work at, what their lifestyle is or if they can achieve it, anxious about their values. : when people carry anxiety about their identity.
