Read the following article about James Marcia
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Early_Childhood_Education/Book%3A_Child_Growth_and_Development_(Paris_Ricardo_Rymond_and_Johnson)/15%3A_Adolescence_-_Social_Emotional_Development/15.02%3A_James_Marcia__Theory_of_Identity_Development
Think back on your life in high school. What roles did you play in your family? In your
school? In your outside life? Were you comfortable in those roles? Were you comfortable
recognizing that you actually played a number of different roles? How did you feel when your
roles were in conflict (e.g., you were a student in school; but you may also have been a teacher
in some other setting). To what extent did these roles contribute to your sense of identity? As
you reflect upon the development of your identity, carefully study and think about the four
aspects of identity formation described in the article about James Marcia, namely:
Identity Achievement
Identity Foreclosure
Identity Moratorium
Identity Diffusion
Write your essay between 600-750 words, double spaced following the outline below:
- Define identity and explain how it differs from the specific roles you played.
- Describe your own sense of identity at the end of high school.
- How has your sense of identity changed since high school?
- Consider Marcia’s 4 aspects of identify forma