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PART 4: PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 11: PERSONALITY DEV…
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Personality Development in Childhood and Adolescence
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Topics
• What Is Personality Development?
• Do Infants Have Personality?
• How Does the Young Child’s Personality Develop?
• What Are the Challenges of Middle Childhood?
• What Are Adolescents Doing?
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Stage Theories• Erik H. Erikson’s Stage Theory of Development• Development is psychosocial: The person
develops along paths expected by society – Early development is in the home.– Development as a youth must meet the expectations
of schools and community groups – Later development in community, at work, with newly
formed family
• Eight Stages of Development
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Stage Theories Stages 1-3 of Erikson’s Eight Stages
Stage and Age: Personal Social
Trust—Basic Mistrust Infancy
Infant explores securely or feels insecure and unsafe
Family
Autonomy—Shame and Doubt
Ages 2-3
Toddler begins to control things around him/her, toilet training, feeding, etc.
Family
Initiative—Guilt
5-7 years
Develop plans and goals within the and outside the family; inte-grated within right and wrong
Family
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Stage Theories
Stages 4 and 5 of Erikson’s Eight Stages Stage and Age: Personal Social
Industry—Inferiority
Middle School Age
Becoming competent vs. feeling inertia
Grade School
Identity--Role Confusion
Puberty
Choosing school; friends; majors; vs. unable to choose
Senior Year High School College
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Stage Theories Stages 6 through 8 of Erikson’s Eight Stages
Stage and Age: Personal Social
Intimacy vs. Isolation Young Adulthod
Forming intimate relationships versus existing alone and in isolation
Occupations; organizations
Generativity vs. Stagnation Adulthood
Creation of a new family; contributing to society vs. repeating life on a day-to-day basis with little growth and giving
Occupation; family
Ego Integrity vs. DespairMaturity
Positive sense of self as giving, productive vs. inability to accept his or her life
Family; occupation; institutions
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The Infant’s Challenge
• Buzzing, blooming confusion? Not hardly
• Facial recognition virtually from birth
• 6-10 weeks: Social smile
• 15-18 months: Self-recognition in mirror
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Infant Temperament• Easy Child
– Rhythmic in hunger, sleep-wake, excretion– Positive approach to others– Low or mild intensity of reactions– Positive mood
• Difficult Child– Irregular in hunger, sleep-wake, excretion– Withdrawal from others– High intensity of reactions– Negative mood
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Attachment Patterns• Secure Attachment
– Mother accurate and sympathetic about infant feeling– Infants enjoy mother; tolerate her absence– Mother is comforting, dependable figure
• Anxious Resistant Attachment– Mothers attend inconsistently to infant– Infants have difficulty tolerating being apart from mother– Infants are tentative at reunion; unsure – Mothers (and others) are unpredictable and not always comforting
• Anxious-Avoidant Attachment – Mothers seem uninterested in their infants, and rebuff them consistently– Infant does not seek out caretaker– Deny importance of contact
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Self Concept• 2 ½ - 5 years• Infantile amnesia lifts
– Children have no cognitive organization of memories before about 3 years of age
– Now, sustained memories are laid down that form the basis of the person’s life story
• 3, 4, & 5 year-olds were ushered from a daycare center when a popcorn maker caught fire (Pillemer, Picariello & Pruett (1995).– 7 years later, 4 & 5-year-olds clearly remembered the event– 3 years old mistakenly recalled where they were
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Changes in Temperament• In Infancy, a “Big Three” of temperament
are:– Positivity– Negativity, and– Cuddliness
• In Young Children, Self-Control replaces Cuddliness– Important in social interactions, meal-time,
having friends, toilet training
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Parents and the Family Context Styles of Parenting
(modified from Maccoby & Martin, 1983)
Nurturance
Responsive, child-centered
Rejecting, Parent-centered
Control Demanding, High on control
Authoritative Authoritarian
Undemanding, Low on control
Permissive Uninvolved
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Birth Order • Sulloway (1996)
– First-born children may identify most closely with parents
– As they grow, tend to be more conservative and to uphold society as it stands
– In one study: • 83 scientist siblings (brothers, sisters, or brothers and
sisters),• Both on record regarding an innovative scientific theory • First-borns supported innovation 50% of the time• Later-borns supported innovation 85% of the time
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The Gendered World • Sex and Gender
– Sexual development diverges for the male and female fetus at 9 weeks– Upon birth, most children can be identified as one or the other sex– Social understandings of gender also come into play
• Children were studied in 90 nations on an International Survey.– Example; “One of these people is emotional. They cry when something
good happens as well as when everything goes wrong. Which is the emotional person?”
– The pointed to male or female figure– Children indicate women more than men in response to the question by
5-years• By Five Years of Age
– Children play in same sex groups (through to adolescence)– Children take care to choose toys and television shows preferred by
other members of their sex
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Self Concept
• The child increasing focuses on life tasks– Doing well in school
• If industry fails, individual may feel inferior
– Making friends• If relationships fail, child may be victimized
• Begins thinking about adult relationships and occupations
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From Temperament to the Big Five Traits
Dimensions
of Temperament
The Big Five Traits
Extrav. Neurot. Open Consc. Agree.
Surgency .59 -.08 .40 .10 .30
Neg. Affect -.16 .49 -.17 -.16 .03
Sensitivity .19 .19 .54 .15 .20
Paying attention .09 -.34 .21 .44 -.04
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Friendship Patterns • Children rely very much on their friendships
– Some children are far more socially skilled and have more successful relationships
– Other children gradually become isolated
• This can be teased out in the “entry” situation, in which children are asked to join a dyad of children already at play.
• What will they do?– Skilled children take on roles relevant to the dyad: “Oh, you are
superman and batman? I’ll be spiderman” – Unskilled children speak in unrelated terms: “Oh, okay, my mom
is taking me to a restaurant today.”
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Sex and Gender• Adolescence begins with the sexual maturation
of puberty– For girls,
• vagina, uterus, and ovaries mature • menarche, the first menstrual cycle, occurs• Assume a more rounded appearance; breasts mature
– For boys, • testes and penis mature• Shoulders broaden• Facial hair grows; Childhood fat tissue change to muscle
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Sex and Gender
• With rapid physical maturation:– The child now looks much different– Often feels all eyes are on her or him– Reconcile inner and outer self– A new sense of identity emerges
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Sex and GenderAdolescent Women, Men, and Sexual Desire
Men WomenPeer groups
Often encourage sexual experimentation; often positive attitudes toward casual sex
Often concerned with image among friends; often try to restrain one another’s sexual activity
Desired Sexual Partners
Average men desire 18 or more sexual partners over their lives
Average women desire 4 to 5 sexual partners over their lives
Thoughts of sex
Struggle with thoughts, often distracted, disturbed.
Struggle with thoughts, but not as badly as men
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Sex and GenderAdolescent Women, Men, and Personality Traits
Men WomenAggression Are higher than women
in self-rated aggression and aggressive behavior
Are lower than men in self-rated aggression and lower in aggressive behavior
Thing versus Person
Are “Thing” oriented: cars, electronics, houses
Are “People” oriented: relationships, connections
Depression Rates of depression are similar to women before puberty
Rates of depression rise relative to men after puberty
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Establishing Identity• Identity
– Who one is– Group memberships– Beliefs that guide life
• Identity Crisis (Erik H. Erikson)– Inability to assemble an identity– Drifting– Possible serious psychological crisis
• Concept further developed by Marcia
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Marcia’s Concept of Identity Status
Commitment
Low High
Self-
Exploration
High Moratorium: Prolonged exploration
Achievement: Finding a right Identity
Low Diffusion:
Unfocussed, Unconcerned
Foreclosure:
Influenced by someone else
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Case of Identity Diffusion• Kathy moved from her home in Ohio to the University of
Chicago (Littwin, 1986, p. 49, 61-62). Unfortunately during her first years there, her financial aid was cut off. To make ends meet, she took three jobs: a research assistant to a professor, a departmental assistant in the philosophy department, and a cashier in a near by health food restaurant. It was the latter of the three jobs she enjoyed the most as it enabled her to deal with people in an off-campus environment. As time went on, she became focused on matters other than school and dropped out in her fifth year without a degree…
• She felt tired and depressed concerning her experiences, and decided to move to New York. By coincidence, the professor she worked with at the University of Chicago was starting a business in New York, and he hired her to assist with the organization’s computers. (cont.)
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Case of Identity Diffusion (Cont.)• She did well at this, despite a lack of training, and began to earn
a respectable salary. At the same time, she didn’t like the values of the Wall Street firm, or what she was doing, so, after a supervisor commented negatively on her informal dress, she quit, and collected unemployment for five months. By now, Kathy was 25 years old, she appeared drawn, uncertainly, toward a number of different possible futures, including finishing school and entering a Ph.D. program in history, doing New Age dance therapy, writing, public policy research, and yet, was uncertain about doing any of them. Kathy seemed less involved in exploring than in a somewhat chaotic maneuvering among a variety of uncertain possibilities.
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Establishing Identity
• Outcomes– Little is known, really– Josselson (1996)
• Among 30 women, those with identity achievement– Were able to move ahead in 30’s and 40’s in a clearer
fashion– Better sense of meaning– Better coping with setbacks
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