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Recommended: Contrast and compare at least two identity development theories in adolescence

Identity formation is one of the most fundamental tasks in life span development, particularly for adolescence and emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2000; Erikson, 1968). Since its conception in Erikson’s ego psychoanalytic theory, a growing literature and significant advances have been made in identity development research (Schwartz, Zamboanga, Luyckx, Meca, & Ritchie, 2013). However, as existing studies with young people were mainly conducted in the high-school and college settings, there is still a call to give attention to the special populations (Luyckx, Schwartz, Goossens, Beyers, & Missotten, 2011) and one of such groups would be the children in conflict with the law (CICL).
The deviant behaviors during adolescence play the role of double …show more content…

The former represents the search of various possibilities for the potential identity, whereas the latter deals with choosing individualized ones. Luyckx and his colleagues (Luyckx, Schwartz, et al., 2008; Luyckx, Goossens, et al., 2006; Luyckx et al., 2011) have extended Marcia’s identity status model by emphasizing the processes underlying the identity structure and unpacking exploration and commitment into further categories. They divided the dimension of exploration into exploration in breadth and exploration in depth, and commitment into commitment making and identification with commitment (Luyckx, Goossens, et al., 2006). Later, they have also distinguished the adaptive exploration from the maladaptive ruminative exploration and added ruminative exploration as the fifth dimension in their model (Luyckx, Schwartz, et al., …show more content…

Personal life stories are the important highlights in this line of research (Schwartz et al., 2013). McAdams (2008, 2011) is one of the leading scholars in this area. He proposed the six principles for the narrative study of lives (McAdams, 2008). According to him, the self is storied and these stories integrate lives. They are also the cultural texts which are told in the social relationships. And, these stories tend to change over time and differ in their quality. As he has postulated, people engage in the work of defining themselves by telling stories to others and, at the same time, to themselves. And so, through detailed analysis of the structure and content of these stories, the changing identities of the individuals can become visible (McAdams, 2008; Murray,

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Sidoonie smith and Julia Watson rhetorical situation, is that “people tell stories of their lives through the cultural scripts available to them”. Another situation is the fact people have a discursive practice of how they control the stories they tell about themselves. Claims made are the fact that people don’t really know that much about themselves when writing an autobiography. For this reason Sidoonie smith and Julia Watson explain to the audience how individuals use the concept of agency to tell stories about themselves and ways to do it. Sidoonie smith and Julia Watson use varies contexts of autobiography that is better interpreted and understood.

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Though their own writings, each authors try to explain how their identity has been created due to the expression of their own identity. For example, in “Our Secret”, Griffin often refers to the thread of Himmler’s life by bringing up his childhood diary. Writing a diary is the only way for Griffin to express his true identity, but it wasn’t entirely his own expression because his father is observing him while he was writing his diary, “The man behind the desk does not raise his head to nod. He continues to write. He puts his pen down and looks up at the young man” (Griffin, 253).

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“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

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William Shakespeare once said, "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. " Dating back to Elizabethan Literature, self-identity has always been deemed as essential. Fast forward to modern times, the authors of more contemporary works have taken the same concept of identity but have revealed the way actions taken can influence an individual 's understanding of themselves. For example, in John Howard Griffin 's memoir, Black Like Me and Wes Moore 's memoir, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates were both authors encounter lifestyles of similar individuals.

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Life Goals In the essay “The Storyteller”, Sandra Cisneros describes how her identity was shaped by goals that she had for herself. Starting from a young Cisneros dreamt about living in her own silent home that fitted her taste. Years later after coming home from college she still had the dream of living on her own and also with a career goal of becoming a writer. Cisneros determination to follow her dreams was strong, however, her father’s did not agree with the dreams and even had a different idea of what he wanted for her.

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With his newly found self-identity, he learns that he is his own person that lives for himself, and not for a group of people. In brief, someone’s self-identity is realized with the drive of their

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This can be done through a steady set of norms and values, which ultimately influence your identity formation (Klimstra, 2012). Furthermore, Sigelman and Rider (2015), suggest that to achieve a sense of identity, the adolescent needs to incorporate multiple perceptions

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Later, the cultural critic Stuart Hall has opined about the changing nature of identity. He says that there is no fixed identity that can be attributed to an individual for his life period; it evolves through several changes in each phase of life. So it can be understood that formation of identity involves several steps: construction, reconstruction and deconstruction. The politics behind this formation may depend on the nature of identity that an individual tries to hold. Indeed, the cultural critic Kobena Mercer reminds us: “One thing at least is clear - identity only becomes an issue when it is in crisis, when something

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Throughout my life I have come from and created a few identities for myself. Perhaps, the most dominant identities that have been apart of my life are being an athlete and being a family orientated man. In this paper I will write about how my identities have shaped my life. First off I believe my biggest identity is being an athlete.

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The identity a person holds is one of the most important aspects of their lives. Identity is what distinguishes people from others, although it leaves a negative stereotype upon people. In the short story Identities by W.D Valgardson, a middle-aged wealthy man finds himself lost in a rough neighborhood while attempting to look for something new. The author employs many elements in the story, some of the more important ones being stereotype and foreshadow. For many people, their personal identity is stereotyped by society.

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Of particular importance to the present study is Ricoeur's formulation of an "offshoot issuing from the blending of history and fiction": narrative identity (1988, 3:246). Ricoeur argued that only narrative can account for the assigning of a everlasting proper name to an agent or subject, permanent from a subject's birth to death (1988, 3:246). Ricoeur claimed that one must tell a tale of a life in order to answer the question "Who...?" Therefore, the identity of this "who" must be a narrated identity (1988, 3:246). Ricoeur went far away as to say that, "Without the recourse to narration, the problem of individual identity would in fact be condemned to an antinomy with no solution" (1988, 3:246).

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