Personality Interview

The person I decided to Interview is my younger cousin. Her pseudonym is Rihanna. Rihanna is 16 years old and she is a senior in High School. Her gender is female and her nationality is Pakistani. She was born in U.S.A, then moved to Canada with her family for a few years, she then moved to Pakistan for her middle school, and now she is permanently living here in U.S.A. Rihanna is the second youngest in her family. She has two brothers and two older sisters. Her oldest brother has a Master’s in Business(MBA) and her youngest brother is a junior in High School with her. Her oldest sister has a Bachelor’s in Biology and her second older sister is a Freshman in College. Rihanna is very close to all her siblings and is the most cherished one by their parents and …show more content…
His theory, Identity vs. role-confusion, states that student with age 12-18 try to figure out how they fit in the society, they try to see who they are whether in gender wise or personality; they try different things (Woolfolk, 2013). When I asked Rihanna, she said she knew who she was in high school but she did have issues fitting in. Since she came from another country, she had to adapt to the culture over here, people spoke and behaved differently here rather than back home. She had to behave like them to fit in. She changed herself from time and time to figure out herself. Eventually, she did come to a point where she understood herself and was accepted by all friends. From Rihanna’s perspective, the fact that she was very sociable helped a lot. She initiated conversations with many people, got to know them, and was accepted happily after some time. I agree with Erickson’s theory, there are some people who know who they are while others try to figure out who they are and how they fit in. With my cousin, she had to change herself to fit in but she did come to a point where she understood herself perfectly and was happy about accepting how she