What is Emotional Identity?
In this process young people explore their own values, ethics, spirituality, racial and ethnic identity, sexuality, and gender. ...
Therefore, identity formation can be especially challenging for teens who feel different from others because of their cultural, ethnic, gender, or sexual identity.
Therefore, identity formation can be especially challenging for teens who feel different from others because of their cultural, ethnic, gender, or sexual identity.
How is it acquired?
There are two ways to look at your emotional identity:
1) individual perspective—your personal values.
2) collective perspective—your cultural and societal values
1) individual perspective—your personal values.
2) collective perspective—your cultural and societal values
But what is a value?
A value is a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life. Values help define your identity through what you feel. Core personal values are the things you can’t live without. These are the most important things in your life that must be present for you to be happy. The cultural values of your family and societal values of the area you live in also play a role in your identity.
Activity
- Pull out a blank sheet of paper.
- Create a venn diagram.
- On one side write down your personal values
- On the other write down cultural and societal values.
- Within the middle write down the values that over lap
- Circle the 2 most important values that you have
Okay, but how does values effect emotional identity?
Reminder: Emotional identity is this process young people explore their own values
In knowing that many people are going through this stage in their identity, how can adults or other people help them? Would these programs help?
In knowing that many people are going through this stage in their identity, how can adults or other people help them? Would these programs help?
Activity
1) Open this Document
2) Pick one of the two programs to look at below3) Fill out the worksheet with evidence from the clips you have seen
2) Pick one of the two programs to look at below3) Fill out the worksheet with evidence from the clips you have seen