PSYCH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Peer Pressure, Online Analytical Processing, Psych
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Defining who you are, what you value & where you will go in life. Commitment: vocation, personal relationships, sexual orientation, ethnic, political & religious ideology. Moratorium: time out in the idenitty formatino process. Ethnic identity a person"s sense of identity concerning ancestry or ethnic group membership. Multidimensional model of racial identity (sellers et al. , 2006) Racial centrality how important race is in defining your identity. Public regard how you think others view your race. Chavous et al. (2003) identified 4 mmri clusters: Alienated students most disengaged from school & most likely to drop out. Buffering/defensive least likely to drop out and most likely to be in college two years after graduation. Adolescence is a time of change not necessarily a time of storm & stress. Most teens & parents report close, harmonious relations with little conflict. Of the 25% of teens & parents who report problems, 80% were conflicted before adolescence.
