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Marcia
WGU Foundations of Teaching
Terms | Definition, etc. |
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Marcia's Theory of Four Adolescent Identity Statuses | Status reflects the degree to which teens have made a firm commitment to religious and political values and future occupation. |
Foreclosure Status | Teen's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choice instead of her own. A pseudo-identity that is too fixed/rigid to serve as a foundation for meeting life's challenges. |
Identity Diffusion Status | Teen is not able to develop a clear direction or sense of self. May have experienced an identity crises but was unable to resolve it. |
Moratorium Status | Teen experiments with occupational and ideological choices without a commitment to any. Teen is currently in the midst of an identity crisis. |
Identity Achievement Status | teen has made her own conscious, autonomous, clear-cut decisions about an occupation and ideology that reflects who she is & a deep commitment to these decisions. |