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ADOLESCENT SELF

Self-conceptions

• Is trait focused and more abstract? Intangible personality characteristics such as sensitivity, outgoing, cheerfulness and anxious are developed.

• They distinguish between actual self and possible selves. They understand the differences between actual self and possible selves and wanting an ideal self. By not achieving the ideal self, depression can occur and is the highest during mid adolescence.

• Motivation to strive for ideal self, the person they would like to be (model, actress, movie star, band member, etc.).

• Avoid feared self, the person they dread becoming.

• Contradictions: feelings and behavior vary.

• False-self present to others but not who they are. This is done with dating partners. Is less likely presented with close friends and parents. They do this to impress or conceal themselves to others.

Self-esteem

• Baseline self-esteem is a stable sense of worth and well-being.

• Barometric self-esteem is a sense of worth with response to thoughts, experiences, and interactions.

• Harter’s self-perception profile for adolescents consists of the following nine headings (Arnett 165):

  • Scholastic competence

  • Social acceptance

  • Athletic competence

  • Physical appearance (most important in adolescence; girls relate physical appearance to self-esteem more than boys)

  • Job competence

  • Romantic appeal

  • Behavioral conduct

  • Close friendship

  • Global self-worth

• Boys self-esteem decreases, but not the same as girls

Emotional self

• Adolescents are moodier than preadolescents. These changes are because of cognitive and environmental factors versus biological changes.

• Girls experience more extreme and negative moods.

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