Adolescent Identity Development

The life transitions are the major changes that occur throughout individual’s lifespan. Adolescence is often classified as one of the most challenging and significant stage during life transition. In this phrase, the individuals not only developing physical and sexual maturation but also experiencing the development of identity and transitions into social and economic independence (WHO, 2014). This essay will discuss the different concept of self-identity for adolescents, the important predictable and unpredictable elements during the transition, as well as the nurses’ role in relation to adolescence care.

Introduction: This chapter introduces the social world to adolescence in multiple ways. This chapter also showcases how social media and peers impact the adolescent development, things like parents and a school’s role showcase multiple ways how to affective learn ways to better develop the adolescence during this time.

, Chandra Johnson claims more young people are connected than ever before through media, the value of the communication that they take part in is leading to an inability to communicate successfully. Johnson argues that youth need face-to-face social communications, and that technology cannot replace traditional public situations. She states that youths today are not creating the empathetic ties that they should be, damaging their relationships. Per this article, young people need to balance technology with essential face-to-face

This is a journal published online in Wiley online library. This journal is based on the survey of 300 adolescents by Barry A. Farber, Gavin Shafron, Jaleh Hamadani, Emily Wald, and George Nitzburg. This source provides information and background about the use of technology mediated communication by teenagers and negative consequence of these various forms of TMC on children’s and young adults.

During the adolescent years, the main goal is for the male/female to find their identity and seek to answer the questions of “Who am I?”, “What is my purpose in life?” “Why do I believe what I believe?” Berger, 2014 states that there are four fields to forming ones identity, which include: religious beliefs, political, career choices and lastly sexual identity. For many children, finding an identity does not come easily, in fact it may not be revealed until later years when one is an adult, or perhaps could one go their whole life and never fully understand their true selves? A lot of these identity roles and perceptions become forced onto adolescents through education or parental and peer influences. High school is such a difficult time. It is a time where self-esteem decreases and a heightened sense of judgment appears. Particularly females wonder whether their outfits, makeup, hair or romantic interests are going to be socially acceptable by other females. My nine year old daughter, although not even in middle school yet, is already wanting to buy clothing that matches that of her friends and told me just the other day that “her legs were too fat!” This is a child that in no way is

Patti M. Valkenburg and Jochen Peter have developed an extensive research on internet usage of teenagers. “Social Consequences of the Internet for Adolescents” is the article written reporting this research (Valkenburg and Jochen Peter 1). The result of the research and point of the article is to discuss the consequences social media has on the socialization and overall well-being of adolescents. The studies done today represent opposite results from studies done in the 1990’s. Valkenburg and Peter explain why this opposition has occurred over time.

The primary task of an adolescent is identity development in a social and peer context that plays a significant role (Erikson, 1993; Berk, 2014). According to a self-report study, Kretsch et al. (2016) suggest that there are cross-cultural differences among peers in perceived development in which there are differences in pubertal timing regarding ethnic and race differences. The findings show that “non-Hispanic White adolescents mature slightly later than African American and Hispanic adolescents” (Sun et al. 2002 in Kretsch et al., 2016). Also, peer friends are comparable in a wide-ranging aspect of “physical appearance, including body mass index” (Cohen-Cole & Fletcher 2008; Fowler & Christakis, 2008 in Kretsch et al., 2016), which is correlated

Most difficult or challenging feature of being an adolescent would be trying to figure out their identity. The adolescent is going through a period where their bodies is changing. The reason why this plays a big role in my opinion is that sometimes what would happen is that the individual would experience either early or late maturation when compared to their friends. And since the individual does not what is going on with their body, they might feel like they are lacking something if they experience late maturation. If they are experiencing early maturation they might feel embarrassed that their voice is much deeper than their friends, or that they are taller than their friend, or that the are having periods. Which result in the adolescent

5.) Adolescents have to find their identity. This can be a challenge for some adolescents, because of the environment surrounding them. Researches have suggested growing up in Western countries is more difficult. In Western countries children are expected to not act like children, but aren’t expected to act like men and women. People in the United States expect their children to be successful, by providing them with name-brand clothing and electronics. However, in non-Western countries children passes through stages. A ritual is preformed to recognize a child turning into an adult. When this happens children receive blessings and spiritual gifts. Most importantly, some children aren’t allowed to live with their mothers after puberty in non-Western countries. All children develop differently. Girls tend to need relationships to feel connected in the environment, while

Key Findings The documents reveals that the results point to a significant association between discrimination and ethnic identity among adolescents. The information in the document shows. It also mentions that this will affect them into their adulthood and possibly affect them for life. It slows there socialisation with people that are not from their ethnic background because they don’t feel comfortable associating with them. They may feel that because they have experienced discriminated before from other people that it may happen again if that person is not from their ethnic background. Although

A person adolescent experience shape there identity as a person by the way they are raised. People tend to act different depending on how their parents treated them. If your parents were always their for you and helped you through the hard times, then you will most likely grown up a good well behaved person. If your parents were always there for you, then you might end up as someone who doesn’t care much about life or anything else. It just depends on how you were raised. Some people that are really smart, probably had parents that didn’t put up with B’s or C’s. Average people that you might see working at a business office, probably had parents that just didn’t want to see F’s.

The next stage was mention a little above dealing with identity. Erikson stage in adolescence is identity vs. role confusion, this is where adolescence are trying to figure out who they are, what they want to do with their life or they or confuse with the appropriate identity roles. Erikson explains this stage that adolescence stumble trying to find the right identity by going through different roles till they find the right one. Once the adolescence is successful, it helps them able to create a foundation in the future development (Feldman, 2014). During this development stage it is very difficult due to many transitions figuring out who you are, more peer pressure, and other influences that can impact the individual. In this stage Laurie starting at twelve, went through many identity roles or styles with her friends. She started with the country girl role into about eighth grade, then started to become punk skater type individual this lasted to about tenth or eleventh grade till she finally realized it was to time be professional. She then started to think about careers and one that stuck out to her was nursing because she like helping people and taking care of people. She made goals to start the technical program her senior year to graduate with her certified nurse assistance then go into the military after she graduated high school. She succeed with the goals and was going into the military till they put her on hold for six months in that

Even though social media isn’t only used for social interaction, it is an important aspect of adolescents’ lives. Social media provides an avenue for them to stay connected with peers they have met through school, sports teams, church, etc (Ito, 2008). Social networking can also help shy adolescents have a more non-threatening way to interact with peers because they aren’t interacting face-to-face (Rosen, 2011).

Young adults’ reliance on the internet has developed into an addiction, resulting in teenagers to feel isolated and disconnected from their peers. In an experiment conducted in “The Effect of Social Network Sites on Adolescents’ Social and Academic Development: Current Theories and Controversies” June Ahn “found that longer use of the Internet was related to increased depression, loneliness, and smaller social circles.” The younger generation lacks genuine socialization because of the extensive amount of time teenagers spend isolated in their own virtual world. The lack of physical interaction has taken a toll on youths’ ability to develop social skills and friendships. With a lack of these social skills, today’s youth will experience trouble socializing, affecting their ability to create and maintain friendships. Furthermore, in Keith Hampton’s article “Is Technology Making People Less Sociable?” he reveals today’s youth, “spend so much time maintaining superficial connections online

There is an abundance of research which examines identity development in adolescents, especially within the fields of psychology and sociology. Identity development has been a popular topic since the works of Erikson and Marcia, and has continued to receive more attention in recent years due to the rise in research of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and queer youth (Bilodeau & Renn, 2005). The purpose of this section is to discuss the gaps and limitations within the adolescent identity literature in order to make appropriate suggestions for future directions in model development.