As I think back to my “school days”, I realize that in the 9th grade I got a view of whom I wanted to be like as an adult. You may be surprised because well I haven’t achieved that goal yet. Let me explain: On the first day of 9th grade I became known as the goody too shoe that grew up in New York and “pretended” not to speak Spanish. Prior to that dreadful first day of school, I had lived and attended school in the United States from grades K-8. Although I was born in Dominican Republic, I was raised in the United States; and English had easily become my first language. I did not and could not fit in with the rest of the student body because I could barely speak the language that was supposed to be my native tongue. So there I was, taller than the average Dominican 9th grader, in their minds “wealthier” than the
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Erik Erikson would say that I had not successfully completed that stage. Erik Erikson’s Stage 5: Identity vs. Role Confusion would best describe the stage that I still found myself in. I had not learned the role I would occupy as an adult. I was experiencing Role Confusion, according to Erikson’s theory; uncertain about myself and my place in society. Allow me to explain this stage where I’d been stuck for + 10 years. At this stage, adolescents are in search of an identity that will lead them into adulthood. The adolescent must make a conscious search for identity; this is built on the outcome and resolution of conflict in earlier stages. If the adolescent cannot make deliberate decisions and choices, especially about vocation, sexual orientation and life in general, role confusion becomes a threat. According to www.wikipedia.com Erik Erikson’s Stage 5, Fidelity: Identity vs. Role Confusion, says that Superego identity is the accrued confidence that the outer sameness and continuity preparedness in the future are matched by the sameness and continuity of one’s meaning for oneself, as evidence in the promise of a career. Erikson says that as
Erik Erikson would say that I had not successfully completed that stage. Erik Erikson’s Stage 5: Identity vs. Role Confusion would best describe the stage that I still found myself in. I had not learned the role I would occupy as an adult. I was experiencing Role Confusion, according to Erikson’s theory; uncertain about myself and my place in society. Allow me to explain this stage where I’d been stuck for + 10 years. At this stage, adolescents are in search of an identity that will lead them into adulthood. The adolescent must make a conscious search for identity; this is built on the outcome and resolution of conflict in earlier stages. If the adolescent cannot make deliberate decisions and choices, especially about vocation, sexual orientation and life in general, role confusion becomes a threat. According to www.wikipedia.com Erik Erikson’s Stage 5, Fidelity: Identity vs. Role Confusion, says that Superego identity is the accrued confidence that the outer sameness and continuity preparedness in the future are matched by the sameness and continuity of one’s meaning for oneself, as evidence in the promise of a career. Erikson says that as