Human Growth and Development / Unit 10 HGD 1355 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Identity Versus Role Confusion
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The idea
Erikson's fifth crisis, identity versus role confusion, from about twelve to eighteen, is forming a full sense of self: traits, capabilities, interests, values and social roles.
In practice
A fifteen-year-old trying on personas, athlete one month, artist the next.
Where people slip
Failure brings role confusion, feeling fragmented or lost; changed social reactions to a changed body help propel the crisis.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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