Adolescent Egocentrism Essay

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When adolescents need a boost of self-esteem, they tend to look for other surrounding that can boost their ego. Sometime the change of an appearance, or a different outlook on life can change how a person feels about his or herself. Though, the term egocentrism refers to the natural restriction on individuals perception caused by the simple fact that they can only see the world from their perspective. It takes distinctive determination to see the world from any viewpoint other than through their personal eyes. However, this essay will cover adolescent egocentrism and how the three self-important thinking patterns of invincibility fable, imaginary audience and ego centrism reassessed. Adolescent egocentrism is a characteristic of adolescent thinking that leads young people (ages 10-13) to focus on themselves to the exclusion of others [1]. A simpler definition is an adolescent incapability to recognize between their perception of what other individuals think about them and what individuals actually think in reality. Adolescent egocentrism is mostly common in early ages (as mentioned above) both girls and boys. Though, early life …show more content…

Imaginary audience is when other people who, in an adolescent’s egocentric belief, are watching and taking note of his or her appearance, ideas, and behavior. Another way to put it is an adolescent possibility feeling self-conscious about him or herself. For example, if a person is in an area that is surrounded by people, he or she would care about if their breath smells bad, if their hair is messed up, and/or their physical appearance is reasonable for everyone to see. However; imaginary audience can cause adolescents to be cocky. For example, a person could wear super expensive clothes and expect everyone to compliment them or draw attention to them by being obnoxious. Therefore, imaginary audience tend to leave some teenagers eager to analyze others physical appearances, thoughts and

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