Middle childhood, ages 7 through 12, is the stage in which children start to become self aware and begin to develop their self esteem. This is where children spend the least amount of time with their parents and more time with their new peers than they ever have in their lifetime. Self awareness bring upon new feelings and they must learn to control those feelings. This change in the body of a child also brings forth mental change in the child. We hypothesize that depending on what type of mindset a child has, whether it be a growth or a fixed mindset, their behavior, personality and self esteem will be affected. If the child has a fixed mindset the child may be better at social tasks but wont exceed academically. On the other hand if the
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Although some controversy, on whether these mindsets were in an upward growth or not, sparked. Multiple data sets proved the increase in these mindsets over generations true, controversy toward the studies were eventually withdrawn. Samples from studies were received from UC Berkeley and UC Davis. The samples, from 2002 to 2008, provided from UC Berkeley's study had the same yearly increase rate of NPI, narcissistic personality inventory, as the nationwide meta-analysis (Twenge & Foster, 2008). Stinson et al. (2008) questioned 35,000 Americans if they have ever shown any signs of NPD, narcissistic personality disorder. What he found was that Americans in their 20's have experience NPD three times more than older generations. The study proved that narcissistic mindsets were not constant throughout the years proving the increase in narcissism. Community samples were also provided in which many high school students were said to have expectations for the future far exceeding reality compared to previous generations. High school students were also viewed as less likely to be empathetic and not care about the environment. Middle school students had an even higher ratio of narcissistic mindsets. This style of thinking has become an epidemic (Twenge & Campbell, 2009). Plans to reduce narcissism included teaching empathy and getting rid of any narcissistic boosters in children. This article …show more content…
Musser's article she states that highly self conscious adults, as well as children, make decisions based on what they feel is socially acceptable. Highly self conscious adults base their behaviors on what people around them do and morph their personalities to make them feel the same as everyone else. On the other hand, adults that are have a low self conscious level don’t really care about their surroundings and tend to be more independent (Snyder 1974, 1979). It has been proven that people that are more self conscious perform better in social situations than people that are not as self conscious (Snyder & Cantor, 1980). In order to measure a person's self conscious level instruments were created. For example, the Junior Self-Monitoring Scale, used to measure the level of self monitoring in children, was based off an instrument used to measure adults for the same thing in different studies. The experiment explained in the article consisted of 93 elementary school students of different ages. JSMS, Junior Self-Monitoring Scale, items were used to reveal the child's self awareness. Children with higher self consciousness, when tested, sided toward behaving properly, to following the actions of those around them and did the contrary of what they felt was correct. This study also supports our hypothesis due to the fact that it explains what kind of behaviors the children will show based on their responses to the self monitoring
Although some controversy, on whether these mindsets were in an upward growth or not, sparked. Multiple data sets proved the increase in these mindsets over generations true, controversy toward the studies were eventually withdrawn. Samples from studies were received from UC Berkeley and UC Davis. The samples, from 2002 to 2008, provided from UC Berkeley's study had the same yearly increase rate of NPI, narcissistic personality inventory, as the nationwide meta-analysis (Twenge & Foster, 2008). Stinson et al. (2008) questioned 35,000 Americans if they have ever shown any signs of NPD, narcissistic personality disorder. What he found was that Americans in their 20's have experience NPD three times more than older generations. The study proved that narcissistic mindsets were not constant throughout the years proving the increase in narcissism. Community samples were also provided in which many high school students were said to have expectations for the future far exceeding reality compared to previous generations. High school students were also viewed as less likely to be empathetic and not care about the environment. Middle school students had an even higher ratio of narcissistic mindsets. This style of thinking has become an epidemic (Twenge & Campbell, 2009). Plans to reduce narcissism included teaching empathy and getting rid of any narcissistic boosters in children. This article …show more content…
Musser's article she states that highly self conscious adults, as well as children, make decisions based on what they feel is socially acceptable. Highly self conscious adults base their behaviors on what people around them do and morph their personalities to make them feel the same as everyone else. On the other hand, adults that are have a low self conscious level don’t really care about their surroundings and tend to be more independent (Snyder 1974, 1979). It has been proven that people that are more self conscious perform better in social situations than people that are not as self conscious (Snyder & Cantor, 1980). In order to measure a person's self conscious level instruments were created. For example, the Junior Self-Monitoring Scale, used to measure the level of self monitoring in children, was based off an instrument used to measure adults for the same thing in different studies. The experiment explained in the article consisted of 93 elementary school students of different ages. JSMS, Junior Self-Monitoring Scale, items were used to reveal the child's self awareness. Children with higher self consciousness, when tested, sided toward behaving properly, to following the actions of those around them and did the contrary of what they felt was correct. This study also supports our hypothesis due to the fact that it explains what kind of behaviors the children will show based on their responses to the self monitoring