Identity Development: Select three of the following five domains and reflect on your identity in each of
the chosen three:
relationships –
career
religious or political ideology
ethnicity
sexual orientation
Then write about your identity development in each of the three domains that you selected applying James Marcia’s approach to identity development,. Ask yourself questions such as the following: What is my “identity status” in each domain? How might I have arrived at my present identity? For example, can I identify persons and specific experiences that have influenced my sense of identity and self? Finally, how
did the construction of my identity build upon my self-concept early in adolescence? (Please note: the questions asked in this paragraph about influences on the development of your identity as well as those in the paragraphs below about other aspects of your development are simply to help you begin to think about how you might apply the theory; we do NOT mean for you to answer them one-by- one in your final paper,
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