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| a person's personality or nature of which that person is aware |
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| a person's conscious, cognitive perception and evaluation of himself or herself; one's thoughts and opinions about oneself |
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| a person's impression or opinion of himself or herself |
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| the self-identity that is developing in time |
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| the kind of person an individual would like to be |
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| the different selves we envision ourselves becoming |
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| the people we hope to be in the future |
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| teh people we will likely be in the future |
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| the people we are afraid of becoming in the future |
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| an explanation for delinquency based on the need for troubled youths to enhance their self-esteem |
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| the stress individuals experience when they are faced with competing demands and expectations |
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| the trait of being excessively vain and self-absorbed. |
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| according to Marcia, those adolescents who have not experienced a crisis and explored meaningful alternative or made any commitments in finding an acceptable identity |
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| according to Marcia, establishing an identity without search or exploration, usually according to what has been handed down by parents |
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| an identity based on rejecting paternal and societal values |
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| 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. |
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| according to Marcia, those adolescents who have undergone a crisis in their search for an identity and who have made a commitment |
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| a construct that describes the process of developing an identity |
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| one's beliefs about how one should behave |
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| the component of the identity control system that compares one's self-concept with one's identity standards |
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| the state in which one finds the commonalities between one's ethnic and mainstream identities |
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| alternating biculturalism |
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| the state in which one vacillates between following one's ethnic traditions and those of the cultural mainstream into a new whole |
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| one's biological endowment as male or female |
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| the psychological/sociological construct of what it means to be a man or a woman |
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| a revised cognitive-developmental approach to gender that emphasizes the effects of labeling, attention, and interest in developing gender beliefs. |
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| the behaviors that are supposedly characteristic of men and women |
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| having the personality and behavioral characteristics of a male according to culturally defined standards of maleness |
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| having the personality and behavior characteristics of a female according to culturally defined standards of femaleness. |
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| the process by which an individual ascribes to himself or herself the characteristics of another person |
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| a blending of male and female characteristics and roles |
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| gender identification hypothesis |
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| the proposal that adolescents feel more pressure than children to behave in gender-stereotypical ways |
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