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Adolescent Psychosocial Identity and Self Development

Explore the concept of identity in adolescence, including various types of selves like ideal, ought, and actual self. Understand the link between self-identity and psychopathology, suicide, and parasuicide behaviors. Discover the differences in suicidal tendencies between adolescents and adults, genders, and ethnicities.

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Adolescent Psychosocial Identity and Self Development

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  1. Chapter 16 Adolescent Psychosocial Development Michael Hoerger

  2. Identity and the Self • Definition: consistent view of one’s self, including values, beliefs, attitudes, roles, and aspirations • From the book… • Possible Selves: one’s potential identities • False Selves: when one’s behavior is inconsistent with their self identity • Sometimes beneficial, sometimes harmful

  3. Additional types of Selves • Ideal Self: who you wish you could be • Ought Self: who others wish you could be • Actual Self: who you consider yourself to be (your identity) • Psychopathology is related to a discrepancy between the actual self and the ought or ideal self

  4. Suicide • 90% admit to thinking about suicide at some point in their lives • 10% of adolescents attempt suicide • Parasuicide: any self-harm behavior that does not result in death (includes nonfatal suicide attempts)

  5. Suicide • Adolescents are more likely to attempt, adults more likely to die • Females are more likely to attempt, makes more likely to die • Males = anger; females = shame • Worldwide, people of European ancestry are most likely to commit suicide

  6. Michael Hoerger To cite this textbook: • Berger, K. (2005). The developing person through the lifespan. New York: Worth. To cite this lecture: • Hoerger, M. (2007, March 19). Developmental Psychology: Adolescent Psychosocial Development. Presented at a PSY 220 lecture at Central Michigan University.

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