Since I was born on June 11, 1998, I have been on the move. As the son of a career naval officer, I have lived all over the world and experienced many things that other people my age have not. My parents are both from the state of West Virginia. After graduating from law school my father joined the Navy as a JAG officer. After my older brother was born in 1995, my family moved to Norfolk, Virginia where I was born soon after. Continuing up until the time I reported to West Point in the summer of 2016, I lived in many different places and enjoyed the experience of meeting new people all the time. Throughout my life so far I have lived in San Diego, Norfolk, Italy, Memphis, Rhode Island, and even Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So naturally the question
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Besides the fact that I was moving away from my home in Norfolk, Virginia, where I had been living for the past three years, my parents along with my three younger siblings were moving to Germany on orders. This made dealing with the distance from my family considerably harder due to the fact that they were now an ocean away and chances to see them would be fewer and far between. So while many of my fellow classmates were able to travel home on the long weekends to visit with family and friends, a simple phone call was the closest I could get to them. This distance from my family is possibly the biggest challenge I have faced at West Point thus far. In order to examine this challenge I will use Erikson and Marcia’s developmental theory. More specifically, to examine my development in the adolescence stage of Erikson’s model using Marcia’s identity statuses. Furthermore, I will use the trait perspective theory in to analyze how my specific behaviors of a certain trait can be applied to my …show more content…
Each stage involves a different crisis that each person encounters throughout their life. Each stage has an approximate range in which the stage occurs and the individual goes through that particular development. For this problem, adolescence stage which involves the identity vs. role confusion crisis, will be applied to my problem. Furthermore, more recently James Marcia has refined this stage into four different identity statuses. Marcia believed that an adolescent’s identity crisis can go positively or negatively resulting in either identity diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, or identity
Besides the fact that I was moving away from my home in Norfolk, Virginia, where I had been living for the past three years, my parents along with my three younger siblings were moving to Germany on orders. This made dealing with the distance from my family considerably harder due to the fact that they were now an ocean away and chances to see them would be fewer and far between. So while many of my fellow classmates were able to travel home on the long weekends to visit with family and friends, a simple phone call was the closest I could get to them. This distance from my family is possibly the biggest challenge I have faced at West Point thus far. In order to examine this challenge I will use Erikson and Marcia’s developmental theory. More specifically, to examine my development in the adolescence stage of Erikson’s model using Marcia’s identity statuses. Furthermore, I will use the trait perspective theory in to analyze how my specific behaviors of a certain trait can be applied to my …show more content…
Each stage involves a different crisis that each person encounters throughout their life. Each stage has an approximate range in which the stage occurs and the individual goes through that particular development. For this problem, adolescence stage which involves the identity vs. role confusion crisis, will be applied to my problem. Furthermore, more recently James Marcia has refined this stage into four different identity statuses. Marcia believed that an adolescent’s identity crisis can go positively or negatively resulting in either identity diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, or identity