{"id":77342,"date":"2025-11-14T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/identity-crisis-in-adolescents\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:14:30","slug":"identity-crisis-in-adolescents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/identity-crisis-in-adolescents\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity crisis in adolescents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>is a key concept in Erikson&#8217;s theory of psychosocial development. It usually occurs in adolescence, when a person experiences an internal struggle, asking questions: &#8220;Who am I?&#8221;, &#8220;What do I believe?&#8221; and &#8220;What is my role in society?&#8221;. In the educational context, this crisis presents a serious challenge, as adolescents need a supportive environment to help them explore their identity \u2013 personal, social or professional \u2013 through opportunities for participation, self-expression and engagement in meaningful activities. Failure to cope with this crisis can lead to a loss of identity or the formation of unhealthy patterns of behavior, while successfully overcoming this crisis forms a harmonious and stable personality in students.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is a key concept in Erikson&#8217;s theory of psychosocial development. It usually occurs in adolescence, when a person experiences an internal struggle, asking questions: &#8220;Who am I?&#8221;, &#8220;What do I believe?&#8221; and &#8220;What is my role in society?&#8221;. In the educational context, this crisis presents a serious challenge, as adolescents need a supportive environment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-11-key-psychological-concepts-in-educational-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}