Commentary, J Aging Geriatr Med Vol: 6 Issue: 2

Traditional Approaches to Identity the Age

Erik Erikson*

Department of Geriatric Medicine, Columbia University, New York, USA

*Corresponding author: Erik Erikson, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Columbia University, New York, USA, E-mail: erik_eri@yahoo.com

Received date: 17 January, 2022, Manuscript No. AGM-22-60316;

Editor assigned date: 19 January, 2022, PreQC No. AGM-22-60316 (PQ);

Reviewed date: 02 February, 2022, QC No AGM-22- 60316;

Revised date: 07 February, 2022, Manuscript No. AGM-22-60316 (R);

Published date: 17 February, 2022, DOI: 10.4172/2576-3946.1000126.

Citation: Erikson E (2022) Traditional Approaches to Identity the Age. J Aging Geriatr Med Vol.6 No.2:126

Abstract

Keywords: Discrepancy

Description

In discrepancy, a digressive perspective can show how, during commerce, we laboriously construct age-salient individualities for ourselves and others through talk. Conversational processes of age- identity operation are explored in a corpus of (United Kingdom) senior medical inpatient consultations. In different ways, croakers deny the age- applicability of medical troubles that their cases routinely plump. A well- developed identity is comprised of pretensions, values, and beliefs to which a person is committed. It's the mindfulness of the thickness in tone over time, the recognition of this thickness by others (Erikson, 1980). The process of identity development is both an individual and social miracle (Adams & Marshall, 1996). Important of this process is assumed during nonage when cognitive development allows for an individual to construct a ‘proposition of tone’ (Elkind, 1998) grounded on exposure to part models and identity options (Erikson, 1980). Erikson (1968) believed this period of development to be an ‘identity extremity, ’a pivotal turning point in which an existent must develop in one way or another, steering the adolescent toward growth and isolation. Identity is formed through a process of exploring options or choices and committing to an option grounded upon the outgrowth of their disquisition. Failure to establish a well- developed sense of identity can affect in identity confusion. Those passing identity confusion don't have a clear sense of who they're or their part in society.

Erikson’s Identity vs. Role Confusion

Identity development is vital to a person’s understanding of tone and participation in their social systems. Adams and Marshall (1996) established that identity conformation provides five functions a structure and order to tone- knowledge; a sense of thickness and consonance to beliefs, pretensions, and tone- knowledge; a sense of durability for one’s history and future; pretensions and direction; a sense of particular control of their choices and issues. Erik Erikson’s proposition of psychosocial development emphasizes the social nature of our development. His proposition proposed that our psychosocial development takes place throughout our lifetime. Erikson suggested that how we interact with others is what affects our sense of tone, or what he called the pride identity. He also believed that we're motivated by a need to achieve capability in certain areas of our lives.

According to psychosocial proposition, we witness eight stages of development over our lifetime, from immaturity through late majority. At each stage, there's a conflict, or task, that we need to resolve. Successful completion of each experimental task results in a sense of capability and a healthy personality. Failure to master these tasks leads to passions of inadequacy. Erik Erikson believed that the primary psychosocial task of nonage was establishing an identity. Erikson appertained to life’s fifth psychosocial task as one of identity versus part confusion when adolescents must work through the complications of chancing one’s own identity. This stage includes questions regarding their appearance, vocational choices and career bourses, education, connections, fornication, political and social views, personality, and interests. Erikson saw this as a period of confusion and trial regarding identity and one’s life path. During nonage, we witness cerebral doldrums, where teens put on hold commitment to an identity while exploring the options.

Marcia’s Identity Statuses

“Who do I want to be?” Identity conformation was stressed as the primary index of successful development during nonage (in discrepancy to part confusion, which would be an index of not successfully meeting the task of nonage). This extremity is resolved appreciatively with identity achievement and the gain of dedication ( capability to be faithful) as a new virtue when adolescents have reevaluated the pretensions and values of their parents and culture. Some adolescents borrow the values and places that their parents anticipate for them. Other teens develop individualities that are in opposition to their parents but align with a peer group. This change is common as peer connections come a central focus in adolescents’ lives.

Expanding on Erikson’s proposition, Marcia (1966) described identity conformation during nonage as involving both disquisition and commitment with respect to testaments and occupations (e.g., religion, politics, career, connections, gender places). Identity development begins when individualities identify with part models who give them with options to explore for whom they can come. As identity development progresses, adolescents are anticipated to make choices and commit to options within the confines of their social surrounds. In some cases, options aren't handed or are limited, and the existent will fail to commit or will commit without the occasion to explore colorful options (Marcia, 1980).

The least mature status, and one common in numerous children, is identity prolixity. Identity prolixity is a status that characterizes those who have neither explored the options nor made a commitment to an identity. Marcia (1980) proposed that when individualities enter the identity conformation process, they've little mindfulness or experience with identity disquisition or the anticipation to commit to an identity. This period of identity prolixity is typical of children and youthful adolescents, but adolescents are anticipated to move out of this stage as they're exposed to part models and gests that present them with identity possibilities. Those who persist in this identity may drift erratically with little connection to those around them or have little sense of purpose in life. Characteristics associated with prolonged prolixity include low tone- regard, fluently told by peers, lack of meaningful gemütlichkeit, little commitment, or fiber in conditioning or connections, tone- absorbed, and tone-indulgent.