Characteristics of the Presentation of the Self During Adolescence (original) (raw)

Russian Education and Society, 2001

Abstract

A number of works have been devoted to the psychological aspects of the emergence of the adolescent's personality. It is in that age period that the intellectual apparatus comes to be fully formed, enabling the youngster to make a reasoned construct of his own world view, his individual system of values, and his conception of self [Ia-kontseptsiia]. At this stage the image of self is unstable and less positive than in the younger school age. The peak of these changes comes at the age of about twelve or thirteen [4]. It is in this stage that the integration and interpretation of all the information relating to the self begins. In the epigenetic conception of E. Erikson the age of adolescence occupies a central place; the adolescent is trying to accomplish a basic objective, namely the development of a sense of role identity, which incorporates not only a system of current role identities but also the experience he has accumulated in previous stages of development, synthesizing it to serve as the basis for the further development of the personality of the adult individual [9].

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