Journal Article

SELF-SOCIALIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF A PARACHUTE CHILD

NEWMAN, Philip R, NEWMAN, Barbara M

2009

Overview

The theoretical concept of self-socialization suggests that an individual is able to reflect on the self, formulate a vision of a future self, set goals, and take actions that create or alter the developmental trajectory. This case study of a parachute child illustrates how a person constructs her life from a very young age, drawing on a profound capacity for personal agency to overcome obstacles, identify resources, and internalize values to build a life structure. A model of the psychosocial process of self-socialization emerges from this case. Following the disruption of a well-defined trajectory, self-socialization is observed as a sequence of actions, reflection, correction, and new actions. Self-socialization is possible when a strong sense of self-efficacy is applied to attaining internalized values and goals.

• Publisher: Libra Publishers,Libra Publishers, Inc,Libra Publishers Incorporated
• Subject: Acculturation / Adaptation, Psychological - classification / Adolescent / Biological and medical sciences / Case studies / Children / Conflict (Psychology) / Cultural identity / Decision Making / Demographic aspects / Depressive Disorder - etiology / Depressive Disorder - psychology / Depressive Disorder - therapy / Developing countries / Developmental Psychology / Early childhood education / Educational aspects / Educational Attainment / Ego / Emigration and Immigration / Empowerment / English / Family Relations - ethnology / Family Relationship / Female / Foreign students / Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology / Goals / Grade 4 / Human agency / Humans / Immigrant children / Immigration / Intermediate Grades / LDCs / Mental health care / Motivation / Parents / Peer Group / Peer Groups / Problem Solving / Psychological aspects / Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry / Psychology. Psychophysiology / Resistance (Psychology) / Secondary schools / Self Efficacy / Self-efficacy (Psychology) / Social aspects / Social Identification / Social Support / Social Values / Socialization / Stress, Psychological - complications / Stress, Psychological - psychology / Students, Foreign / Taiwan - ethnology / United States / Values / Young Children