Adolescent Interview For my adolescent interview, I chose to talk to my younger brother, who is eighteen years old and currently a junior in high school. The interview took place in a relaxed environment for him so that he would be comfortable answering my questions truthfully. I developed a list of twenty-six questions by looking through chapter 8 and included a couple questions formulated from chapter 9. Because he is currently still in high school and has yet to be employed or have responsibilities besides school, I felt he was still an adolescent and just entering emerging adulthood. In this essay, I will go over his physical, cognitive, social and emotion development through my process of conducting this interview with him. At the age
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When asked about how his emotions are in the areas of feeling self-conscious and embarrassed he said that he experiences those feeling less frequently than he did at a younger this age, which is normal. We also discussed areas of actual self and possible selves. He spoke that he has thought about how one bad decision in the future could escalate into a downward spiral. He expressed the idea of a false self, wearing a “mask” around his parents to portray the ideal child and also around peers to maintain acceptance. His self-esteem has grown as he has matured and the opinions of his peers are not as important as they were when he was younger, which is on track for his development. I also asked him about the multiple aspects of self-esteem by Susan Harter. Overall he showed a positive self-esteem, with known intelligence, feeling socially accepted by his peers, not athletic, and wanting to improve his physical appearance. He does not have a job but can get tasks done, feels romantically appealing, can control his behavior and has close friendships both, in person and online. He described himself as a smart kid, who enjoys playing video games and drinking tea. I also assessed his moral development through Kohlberg’s system of moral reasoning. When asking him the question about a man with cancer trying to get the medication to save his wife’s life, he answered that no matter what he did he would still have to go on trial and be punished. This provided that he was at stage 4, the social system orientation stage. He believed that we should follow the law and that the laws should be respected. Saying that it is not worth killing someone to save another person’s life, that death would have a harsher punishment than stealing the drug or money to pay for the drug. When asked if he feels he is religious, he said he believed in God but did not practice religion. This is common for adolescents as the survey
When asked about how his emotions are in the areas of feeling self-conscious and embarrassed he said that he experiences those feeling less frequently than he did at a younger this age, which is normal. We also discussed areas of actual self and possible selves. He spoke that he has thought about how one bad decision in the future could escalate into a downward spiral. He expressed the idea of a false self, wearing a “mask” around his parents to portray the ideal child and also around peers to maintain acceptance. His self-esteem has grown as he has matured and the opinions of his peers are not as important as they were when he was younger, which is on track for his development. I also asked him about the multiple aspects of self-esteem by Susan Harter. Overall he showed a positive self-esteem, with known intelligence, feeling socially accepted by his peers, not athletic, and wanting to improve his physical appearance. He does not have a job but can get tasks done, feels romantically appealing, can control his behavior and has close friendships both, in person and online. He described himself as a smart kid, who enjoys playing video games and drinking tea. I also assessed his moral development through Kohlberg’s system of moral reasoning. When asking him the question about a man with cancer trying to get the medication to save his wife’s life, he answered that no matter what he did he would still have to go on trial and be punished. This provided that he was at stage 4, the social system orientation stage. He believed that we should follow the law and that the laws should be respected. Saying that it is not worth killing someone to save another person’s life, that death would have a harsher punishment than stealing the drug or money to pay for the drug. When asked if he feels he is religious, he said he believed in God but did not practice religion. This is common for adolescents as the survey