Identity Development and Adolescence

Definitions

100

High exploration and high commitment 

Identity Achievement

200

High exploration low commitment

Moratorium

300

Low exploration low commitment 

identity diffusion

400

Low exploration high commitment

foreclosure

James Marcia

100

What is his theory?

Identity Development theory.

200

What did he major in in college?

Psychology

300

Marcia used a teenage patient to develop his theory, what was this patient diagnosed with?

schizophrenia

400

Whose work did James Marcia expand on?

Erik Erikson

Examples

100

"Ive worked as a lawyer for the past 10 years, but I really want to work for a non-profit even if I don't make as much money."

identity achievement

200

"I want to go to college for biology, but I'm only a freshman in high school so I have time to figure that out."

identity diffusion

300

"Ive been a biology major for the past two years, but I might want to go into teaching or business."

Moritorium

400

"I might only be 10 but my dad hates republicans, so do I."

Foreclosure