PS276 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: James Marcia
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Identity: accepting, discovering, choosing an identity, diffusion, state of confusion from conflict & doubt over all the choices. An incoherent, disjointed, incomplete sense of self as a result of not having resolved one"s identity (steinberg, 2015, p. 286) View of adolescence to erikson: time of moratorium (delay of adulthood, time to experiment (opportunity & freedom to try on" various roles, beliefs, & philosophies to see how they fit") James marcia: 4 states of identity development, differ along 2 dimensions: In crisis/exploration or not: committed or not, diffusion, not exploring- have not committed, not attempted to do so ( don"t know, don"t care , foreclosure, committed, but experienced no crisis/exploration. Independence: capacity to behave on one"s own: autonomy: broader, deals with various areas of self-governing, 3 dimensions of autonomy, emotional, behavioural, cognitive (value, 3 dimensions , do not occur simultaneously, do not occur in fixed order. Leading to : confusion, paradoxical situations, differing opinions/ perceptions between youth adults.
