Ch. 6 self-concept identity ethnicity and gender

a person's personality or nature of which that person is aware

a person's conscious, cognitive perception and evaluation of himself; one's thoughts and opinions about oneself

a person's impression or opinion of himself or herself

the self-identity that is developing in time

the kind of person an individual would like to be

the different selves we envision ourselves becoming

the people we hope to be in the future

the people we think we will likely be in the future

the people we are afraid of becoming in the future

an explanation for delinquency based on the need for troubled youths to enhance their self-esteem

the stress individuals experience when they are faced with competing demands and expectations

the trait of being excessively vain and self-absorbed

according to Marcia, those adolescents who have not experienced a crisis and explored meaningful alternatives or made any commitments in finding an acceptable identity

according to Marcia, establishing an identity without search or exploration, usually according to what has been handed down by parents

an identity based on rejecting parental and societal values

according to Marcia, a period of time in the life of adolescents who are involved in a continual crisis, who continue to search for an identity, and who have not made any commitments

according to Marcia, those adolescents who have undergone a crisis in their search for an identity and who have made a commitment

a construct that describes the process of developing an identity

one's beliefs about how one should behave

the component of the identity control system that compares one's self-concept with one's identity standards

the state in which one finds the commonalities between one's ethnic and mainstream identities

the state in which one vacillates between following one's ethnic beliefs and those of the societal mainstream

the state in which one has merged one's ethnic traditions and those of the cultural mainstream into a new whole

one's biological endowment as a male or a female

the psychological/sociological construct of what is means to be a man or woman

a revised cognitive-developmental approach to gender that emphasizes the effects of labeling, attention, and interest in developing gender beliefs

the behaviors that are supposedly characteristic of men and women

having the personality and behavioral characteristics of a male according to culturally defined standards of maleness

having the personality and behavior characteristics of a female according to culturally defined standards of femaleness

the process by which an individual ascribes to himself or herself the characteristics of another person

a blending of male and female characteristics and roles

the proposal that adolescents feel more pressure than children to behave in gender-stereotypical ways