PSY310H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Parenting Styles, Gender Role, Androgyny
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Identity as an adolescent issue: changes in identity that take place during adolescence involve the first substantial reorganization and restructuring of the individuals sense of self. Puberty and identity development: puberty often changes outward experience and this has also helps with forming identity and affects the identity development. Cognitive change and identity development: developing cognitive processes also impact identity development. Adolescents are able to distinguish between their actual self (who they are), ideal self (who they want to be) and feared self (who dread becoming). A healthy self concept is having an ideal self to balance the feared self. In delinquent adolescents, the ideal self is missing: but they are not always consistent, false self behaviour- behaviour that intentionally presents a false impression to others. Putting on a false self behaviour can be linked with devaluing your original self but not always: to study the dimensions of personality five-factor model is used.