Identity For Adolescents Essay

Identity for an adolescents point of view is important. Adolescents are far more self-conscious about their changes and the way they feel. While reading the text, I related to majority of the chapter. I remember going through the process around the time I hit puberty of trying to find out who I was. Every adolescent wants to have a sense of identity, where they know they are becoming someone and they want their peers to notice. When I became an adolescent I wanted to change my looks completely. I got my hair colored ot auburn, I let my hair grow out and I started dressing up for school more. While trying to figure out my identity I first imagined my possible self. I then developed my future orientation of who I wanted myself to be in the future. There were multiple times where I had to make important choices about my education. I decided to take college class in high school, in result, my tuition would not be as high and I would graduate college a year earlier. Steinburg states

I would tend to focus on one thing about myself that I wanted to change and then the next day I would find something else I wanted to change. The text states “An important aspect of having a healthy self-concept is having an ideal self to balance a feared self” (Steinburg 211). In other words, in order for me to have a healthy self-concept I need to balance my ideal self imagine to my feared self imagine. Low self-esteem and false-self behavior are connected to each other. When I had low self-esteem I would have a false-self behavior to cover up my personality to people and use a different personality to please others. Researchers use a five factor model that study personalities. This model has five critical personality dimensions, referred to as the “big five”: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to