During adolescence, individuals often undergo significant challenges related to their sense of identity, which can lead to an identity crisis. This period involves intense focus on self-image and can be exacerbated by stressful life events such as parental separation or academic pressures.
Identity status focuses on foreclosure, Identity diffusion, identity achievement , and moratorium
children and youth have commitment with values and beliefs as well as their goals
Allows children and youth to be able to explore new experiences
Identity status focuses on foreclosure, Identity diffusion, identity, and moratorium
Identity Crisis
They focus on their self image to help them with the ego
Identity crisis usually happens when someone having certain stressful situations or when a big change has happened for example parents splitting, and school.
A person's sense of identity becomes insecure and they become embarrassed when having to ask others for help
A person may struggle with a mental disorder, like bi polar, depression, and schizophrenia
A person that struggles with the sense of their identity for example they are confused on who they are and who they want to be.
Ethnic Racial Identity
Allow teens adolescents how to express themselves in their own unique ways
Parents have a impact on the child or youth's ethnic racial identity
Peers that have the same background have stronger ethnic identities because they are able to connect with certain beliefs and values
the relationship between one another because you have the similar characters that you can connect with
Moral reasoning
At the age of three children can recognise the difference
between moral issues for example they know what is right and wrong and what is safe or not.
Adolescents is impacted by the interactions between or with individuals and their environments
moral dilemmas can be very challenging
Allows us to focus on making the right decisions and how we feel and understand about certain circumstances
Moral reasoning allow us to reason between what is right and what is wrong
